Sixteen photos which once belonged to Louise Brooks are currently being auctioned online through the liveauctioneers.com website. The seller of these images purchased them at auction, when the Estate of Bill Klein was being sold off between 2004 and 2006. For those who may not know, "Bill Klein was a friend of Louise Brooks in the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired these photos from her, which were part of her own personal collection."
Several of these photos are the same ones used by Louise Brooks in her book, Lulu in Hollywood (1982). And, as a matter of fact, a number of them contain handwritten notations by Brooks on the reverse. Images and additional information on the photos can be found at GoPopCulture.com: THE LOUISE BROOKS COLLECTION.
The images of Louise Brooks include both portraits and film stills, including stills from The American Venus (1926), A Social Celebrity (1926), It's the Old Army Game (1926), Love Em and Leave Em (1926), and Rolled Stockings (1927). There are two publicity portraits of Brooks tied to God's Gift to Women (1931), an image of Louise Brooks and Ted Shawn -- taken during Brooks' tenure with Denishawn, as well as images of Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, and Norma Shearer which Brooks' used to illustrate her film magazine articles. All together, it is an interesting selection.
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