Friday, October 2, 2015

Louise Brooks in New Zealand #1

While working on the Louise Brooks filmography pages on the Louise Brooks Society website, I have been digging around some  newspaper archives in search of advertisements for screenings of the actress' films in other countries. I recently came across some articles and ads from New Zealand, where every one of Brooks' films from The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) through The Canary Murder Case (1929) were shown. I was also able to find listings or ads for It Pays to Advertise (1931), When You're in Love (1937) and King of Gamblers (1937).

These nifty advertisements are typographical in design, and rather unusual. They are almost like concrete poetry. Perhaps the printer assigned to lay out the page was bored? However,  I would assume that the newspapers were not able to print any sort of line art in their advertisements. This first one, with a play on Adolphe Menjou's initials, is my favorite.




Thursday, October 1, 2015

Louise Brooks: Snake Jewelry Fad Abroad She Reports

This article, "Snake Jewelry Fad Abroad She Reports," ran in newspaper in the United States on October 1st, 1930.


Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Louise Brooks, world wide celebrity, in a kimono

Louise Brooks was a world wide celebrity. Here she is -- an American movie star dressed in a Japanese kimono, as depicted in a Spanish publication..


Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Louise Brooks - The Fatal Woman type in 1953 British advert

Louise Brooks listed among "The Fatal Woman" types in this 1953 advertisement for the season of films at the British Film Institute. This inclusion in a film series, just eight years after the end of the second World War, shows that the actress was not forgotten -- and is incredibly early in the historical timeline of Brooks' rediscovery.

Monday, September 28, 2015

Louise Brooks, product placement, soap, and the 1931 film It Pays to Advertise #3

And here is another newspaper article about the 1931 Louise Brooks' film It Pays to Advertise and the controversy stirred up by the film's prolific use of product placement. The article is in two parts. It concludes (a bit ironically) on the newspaper's page featuring want ads.




Sunday, September 27, 2015

Louise Brooks, product placement, soap, and the 1931 film It Pays to Advertise #2

Yesterday's blog post discussed the 1931 Louise Brooks' film It Pays to Advertise and the controversy stirred up by the film's prolific product placement. The post also discussed the campaign against product placement initiated by Harrison's Reports, a motion picture industry trade journal. Reproduced below is one newspaper editorial about the issue, from an Oregon newspaper.



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