Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Kent, England

Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown later today (February 23) at the Palace Theater in Kent, England. This screening will feature a live musical accompaniment by Lilian Henley on the piano. More information about this event can be found HERE.

According to the venue website: "Join us for a deep dive into night and the city, the characters and cabaret of Berlin in the late 1920s, including a young woman (played by the iconic bob-haired Louise Brooks) who we accompany as she finds her way through the dark and dangerous world.

Diary of a Lost Girl begins with the 16-year-old Thymian, daughter of a pharmacist, being given a diary as a first communion present, in which she will go on to record her life of shame and humiliation, betrayed by a succession of men and women. Her innocence ended after she is made pregnant, when she first records her experiences in a repressive reform school and then, having escaped, at a high-class brothel where she’s transformed from dowdy inmate into the stunning woman we know as Louise Brooks the film star.

Throughout it all, Brooks is an incredible, natural, modern presence. Her Thymian transcends her story, retaining her moral decency in a corrupt world. Director GW Pabst had already directed her in Pandora’s Box which outraged correct middle-class audiences in Germany (and everywhere!) on its release, and this film, set in Berlin towards the end of a period of social freedoms and cultural permissiveness (think Liza Minnelli in Cabaret) delivered much the same!"

 In 2010,  the Louise Brooks Society published a corrected and annotated edition of the original 1907 English language translation -- notably, this edition, the first in English in 100 years -- brought this important work of feminist literature back into print in English. It includes an introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, detailing the book's remarkable history and relationship to the 1929 silent film. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" also includes more than three dozen vintage illustrations.  (Purchase on amazon.)

More about Diary of a Lost Girl can be found on the newly revamped Louise Brooks Society website on its Diary of a Lost Girl (filmography page).

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