A watch for an eternity dreamed of by Louise Brooks

Boucheron Paris has an interesting advertisement featuring the English fashion model and author Sophie Dahl*, advertising a watch with the slogan, “A Watch for an eternity dreamed of by Louise Brooks.” (The ad appeared in the January 2007 edition of British Vogue.) The ad is part of Boucheron's 2006-2007 advertising campaign, which can be found at www.boucheron.com The website contains a bit more text about Brooks.




* Sophie Dahl is the daughter of Tessa Dahl (daughter of the children's author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal), and her father is actor Julian Holloway (son of actor Stanley Holloway).

Diary of a Lost Girl screens in Seattle

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) will be shown in Seattle, Washington with live musical accompaniment by Dennis James. The film will be shown on Monday, January 15th at 7 pm. Here is what the local alternative papers in Seattle had to say:

From The Stranger:

Diary of a Lost Girl: The Paramount's outstanding Silent Movie Mondays series returns with an abbreviated program on German expressionism. Up first is Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks as an unlucky pharmacist's daughter with awesome bangs. Preceded by a lecture and accompanied on the organ by Dennis James, shortlisted for the 2006 Stranger Genius film award. Paramount,Mon Jan 15 at 7 pm.

From the Seattle Weekly:

Diary of a Lost Girl This 1929 film, starring Louise Brooks, is featured tonight in STG's series of German Expressionist Silents. Dennis James plays the Wurlitzer Organ during the screening. The Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St., 682-1414. $12. 7 p.m. Mon. Jan. 15.

More RadioLulu updates

I've added about a dozen new tracks to RadioLulu, the silent film inspired, Louise-Brooks themed online radio station of the Louise Brooks Society. All of the newly added songs date from the 1920's and 1930's.

I 've added a couple of early songs about the movies, Billy Murray's Take Your Girlie to the Movies and the Peerless Quartet'sSince Mother Goes to Movie Shows. Each of these recordings date from the teens. I've also added a track which possibly references the Lon Chaney film, Laugh, Clown, Laugh! by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. Also new is a Jazz Age-themed number by Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra, Flapperette. There are a couple of tracks by Buddy Rogers & His Orchestra,While a Cigarette Was Burning and Lovelight in the Starlight. Interestingly, not only was Buddy Rogers an actor and bandleader, but he was also married to Mary Pickford. And lastly, I added some vintage recordings with "Louise" in the title, such as Coon-Sanders Nighthawks delightfulLouise, You Tease, Bob Crosby & His Orchestra's nifty Louise, Louise, and Django Reinhardt's version of the Maurice Chevalier hit, Louise.

If you haven't already checked out RadioLulu, please give it a listen. The station is growing in popularity. Here's a recap of my station's stats for January:

Total Listening Hours: 890
Total Station Launches: 1231
Station Presets: 1193
Favorite Station Designations: 27

Lulu in Philly

Pandora's Box will be shown in Philadelphia this coming Monday. Here are the details.

PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621. Pandora's Box (1929, Germany, 100 min.) Louise Brooks stars as Lulu, a hedonistic dancer, prostitute and heartbreaker, in G.W. Pabst's silent masterpiece. Mon., Jan. 8, 2 p.m., free.

New Beverly Cinema

New 35 mm prints of both Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl were screened at the New Beverly Theater in Los Angeles, California. Did anyone attend this double-bill?

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from the Louise Brooks Society (www.pandorasbox.com). Its been a great year for all things Louise Brooks. (I will be away from this blog for a few days, but shall return with some notes and images from my recent trip to Detroit and Rochester.)

Pandora's Box makes the Top 10

Pandora's Box was listed among the top 10 DVD's of 2006 by Jeremy Osgood in the Chattanooga Pulse, (the alternative weekly serving Chattanooga, Tennessee). The Pulse noted, "Louise Brooks is utterly seductive as Lulu in this film from 1929, proving you don’t need sound to be sexy." This disc has sure been getting a lot of reviews.

I have also heard from an individual that the two copies of the DVD that he bought on-line were defective. Has anyone had a similar problem ?

Audiophile Audition

A review of the new Criterion DVD of Pandora's Box has appeared on the Audiophile Audition website. The review can be found here. The review starts by noting that G.W. Pabst's masterpiece of sexual suggestion "May be both most important film of the black-helmeted screen vixen as well as the most important German silent film."

A couple of unusual images

A couple of unusual images featuring Louise Brooks have shown up on eBay. One is of Brooks on the cover of the Feb 23, 1929 issue of the Police Gazette. This publication was something like today's National Enquirer.

The other is a publicity pic featuring Brooks, Gary Cooper, and Thelma Todd. This is the first image I've ever seen which shows Brooks and Cooper together. (Cooper was then, like Brooks, a Paramount player.) I'm not sure who the others in the pic are.