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Monday, June 30, 2014

New book - Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film

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I have recently finished reading Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film , by Robert Sitton. The 496 page book is out from Columbi...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Another rare Louise Brooks related comic

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This rare 1930 cartoon featuring the "life story" of Thomas Meighan also mentions the 1927 Louise Brooks film, The City Gone Wild...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Louise Brooks: A Glastonbury First

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Over the years, there have been great performances and historic moments at the annual  Glastonbury Festival . This year should be no diff...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Where and Why Miss Louise Brooks Draws the Line

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A follow up to yesterday's post: Newspapers around the country ran an illustrated article on the draped nudes scandal entitled '...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Posing Regretted by Louise Brooks, Erstwhile "Friend" of Charlie Chaplin

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As promised, here is one of the rarest bits of Brooksiana and Chapliniana you are likely to see . . . . the four panel comic strip "hi...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Charlie Chaplin: Birth of the Tramp celebration & conference in Italy

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Charlie Chaplin: Birth of the Tramp celebration & conference June 26th-28th, 2014 at the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy The conferenc...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Suggest Louise Brooks become a Google doodle !

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Why not suggest Louise Brooks become a Google doodle on her birthday, November 14th.  Send a suggestion to proposals@google.com
Monday, June 23, 2014

Louise Brooks articles on San Francisco Chronicle website

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For about a year, I blogged for the San Francisco Chronicle website, SFGate. I wrote about all kinds of stuff, movies, books, authors, loc...