New page on Louise Brooks Society website highlights cinematic tributes to Louise Brooks

What do films of Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Martin Scorsese have in common? Each has included an image of Louise Brooks unrelated to the film.

I just posted a new webpage on the Louise Brooks Society website (page number 261) titled "Louise Brooks: An Image on the Wall." It surveys 10 different films and one television show which include an image of Brooks which otherwise have little or nothing to do with the film. This illustrated surveys begins with Hitchcock's Stage Freight (1949) and ends with Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). In between are Withnail and I (1987), Chicago (2002), HUGO (2011), Blue is the Warmest Color (2012) and others.

A side note: while prepping this page, I came across a reference to another film which supposedly contained an unrelated image of Louise Brooks, namely Frederico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960). I hadn't been aware of this occurrence, nor had I seen Fellini's masterpiece. I asked a search engine, hoping someone might have posted a screen grab, but ened up with this response.

You would think it was there, but it ain't. I borrowed a copy of La Dolce Vita from my local library and watched the film. It is a gorgeous work of cinematic art, and a great film. BUT, an image of Louise Brooks ain't in it, or in other words non c'è un'immagine di Louise Brooks. Please, prove me wrong.

I encourage everyone to check out "Louise Brooks: An Image on the Wall." Is there a film or TV show which I've missed? And why is actor Richard E. Grant pictured twice? How can it be that one actor appeared in two films near an image of Louise Brooks more than 20 years apart. Does a secret force move through film history?

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