Louise Brooks' films were shown all around the world in the 1920s and 1930s, including the Middle East. In my search to document all things related the the actress and her legacy, I came across the following material, which I suspect contains a bit related to either the Canary Murder Case (1929) or the Greene Murder Case (1929) or the Benson Murder Case (1930), each of which starred William Powell as Philo Vance. Brooks was the co-star of the Canary Murder Case, the first film in the series of films based on S.S. van Dine's bestselling murder mysteries.
Can anyone tell me what these pages are about?
The are excerpted from a contemporary book, The Writings of El Sayyed Hassan Gomaa v. 2 1930-1934, compiled and edited by Farida Marei, with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Madkour Thabet. This book is part of a series, "The Legacy of Film Critics in Egypt," published by the Ministry of Culture / Egyptian Film Centre.
Do the reference Canary Murder Case? Or Louise Brooks? Or suggest when these films were shown in Cairo, presumably?
Can anyone tell me what these pages are about?
The are excerpted from a contemporary book, The Writings of El Sayyed Hassan Gomaa v. 2 1930-1934, compiled and edited by Farida Marei, with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Madkour Thabet. This book is part of a series, "The Legacy of Film Critics in Egypt," published by the Ministry of Culture / Egyptian Film Centre.
Do the reference Canary Murder Case? Or Louise Brooks? Or suggest when these films were shown in Cairo, presumably?
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