HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LOUISE BROOKS,
who was born on this day in 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas
"Louise Brooks is the only woman who had the ability to transfigure no matter what film into a masterpiece. The poetry of Louise is the great poetry of rare loves, of magnetism, of tension, of feminine beauty as blinding as ten galaxial suns. She is much more than a myth, she is a magical presence, a real phantom, the magnetism of the cinema."
So said Ado Kyrou (1923-1985), a Greek-born filmmaker, writer, critic and associate of the Surrealists long resident in France. Kyrou was a contributor to the French film journal Positif, and the author of Amour - érotisme & cinéma (1957) and Le Surréalisme Au Cinéma (1963).
Even the "Brooklyn Eagle" took notice - "FLAPPER ICON Louise Brooks was born on this day in 1906. Brooks was an American actress who helped popularize the flapper style of the 1920s and 1930s. She is best known for “Pandora’s Box” (1929), “Diary of a Lost Girl” (1929) and “Miss Europe” (1930). Brooks died in Rochester, New York, on Aug. 8, 1985." - https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/11/14/milestones-november-14-birthdays-for-condoleezza-rice-josh-duhamel-joseph-simmons/
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