Louise Rutkowski, Diary of a Lost Girl, album taster

Attention fans of Louise Brooks and fans of contemporary music: Here is an album taster from the Louise Rutkowski recording Diary of a Lost Girl (released February 21, 2014). The artist is an acknowledged fan of the actress.

Louise Brooks - More Visions of Beauty, from 1940

Two years after Louise Brooks retired from film (and she was largely forgotten by the American public), her name was still evoked as an example of beauty. This two page article dates from 1940.

In the kitchen with Louise Brooks' friends - part 2

Celebrity newspaper columns devoted to recipes as well as celebrity cookbooks were commonplace during the silent film era. The Louise Brooks Society archive contains a few recipes and menus attributed to Louise Brooks. Here is part two of a two part series devoted to recipes from Louise Brooks' friends and colleagues.

First up is Chester Conklin, a bushy mustached silent era comedian who appeared i the 1926 Brooks film, A Social Celebrity. Here, he contributes his recipe for a Yorkshire Tart.

And here is another silent era comedian, the great Charlie Chaplin, with whom Brooks had an intimate friendship in the summer of 1925. Here's Chaplin's recipe for an apple roll.

In the kitchen with Louise Brooks' friends - part 1

Celebrity newspaper columns devoted to recipes as well as celebrity cookbooks were commonplace during the silent film era. The Louise Brooks Society archive contains a few recipes and menus attributed to Louise Brooks. Here is part one of a two part series devoted to recipes from Louise Brooks' friends and colleagues.

First up is Ruth St. Denis, who along with Ted Shawn headed the Denishawn Dance Company during the two seasons the teenage Brooks toured with the famed troupe. It is known that the company ate together on occassion, once even at Brooks' parent's house in Wichita, Kansas. I wonder if Ruthie ever made Chicken Creole for her company?

And next is Blanche Ring, an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and motion pictures. She acted in the 1926 Brooks' film It's the Old Army Game, which was directed by her nephew Eddie Sutherland, who shortly after married Louise Brooks.

At one time, Blanche Ring was married to Charles Winninger, who acted in the 1931 Brooks' film, God's Gift to Women. Her sister Frances Ring was married to Thomas Meighan, the popular silent film actor who starred in 1927 Brooks' film, The City Gone Wild.

Be sure and check back tomorrow for recipes from Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin.

Louise Brooks declared second most beautiful woman by Carl Van Doren

Back in 1929, a syndicated article ran in newspapers in which the noted literary critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren declared Louise Brooks the second most beautiful woman in the world. Carl Van Doren was also the brother of critic Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren, who was famously involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. Unfortunately, this instance of the article has the wrong image for Brooks.

Rare Louise Brorks product card

You remember Louise Brorks? She starred in such memorable films as Rolled Socks (1927), The Canard Murder Case (1929), and Diary of a Lost Grill (1929).

This scarce tobacco card was recently offered on eBay. It was issued in the early 1930s in Uruguay by Julio Mailhos with "Crack" cigarillos. From a series D of 50 Movie Stars; stamped on reverse, assuming this was a redemption offer. (Star's name miss-spelt on front and reverse.)

The United States Coast Guard visits A Girl in Every Port

From the Louise Brooks Society archive, this rare image depicting the the United States Coast Guard visiting a screening of A Girl in Every Port (1928), starring Victor McLaglen and an All Star cast (including Richard Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Sally Rand, Myrna Loy, Maria Casajuana and others). My vintage print of this images measures over 29 inches wide and 10 inches tall.

Beautiful art deco Louise Brooks portrait

For your enjoyment and appreciation, a beautiful art deco Louise Brooks portrait, circa 1927 / 1928.

Louise Brooks asks just how short is a short skirt?

From the Louise Brooks Society archive, a rare newspaper advertisement: "How short is a short skirt? says Louise Brooks, movie darling. Let it be short enough to take advantage of all good points -- if any."