A Documentary On Louise Brooks

A Documentary on the life of Louise Brooks from 1986

[@JSB1882]

When I was a young man, I saw "Pandora's Box" in the theatre. I can honestly say that Louise Brooks set me up for life as far as what I loved in a woman. When my son was 20 - I took him to see "Pandora's box" with no knowledge of how I felt about Louise Brooks. Upon leaving the theatre I asked him what he thought, and he answered, "I think I'm in love." lol

[@markw4206]

This 60-year-old can attest that she's still doing that to men. :)

[@julielewis5051]

As well as being a beauty, she was very brave to live a life that she chose, rather than keeping in with how society was back then. A strong inspiring woman to be admired ❤

[@sarahleach9997]

She was still pretty even older.

[@IndianaRose.]

She was open,intelligent, articulate and a good writer. Too good for Hollywood

[@bariwarnaar2303]

Correct

[@TheGoldtopdude]

No, she was perfect, a regular party animal. Cocaine almost killed her a few times. Very bright, no perfect for Hollywood.

[@e.jenima7263]

yeah hollywood should be Ashamed of itself for what they did to the first generation of actors and actresses. What happened to them really makes you relise how Childish and spoilt so many in hollywood are today.

[@bariwarnaar2303]

@@TheGoldtopdude I think she drank that was it!

[@BeanieScooter]

@@e.jenima7263 nothing out in hollyweird has changed much, though, hence Harvey Weinstein - among others? Lots of pimping going on still.

[@lisaharrod8386]

We love Lulu in Wichita...we're proud of her! The Orpheum Theatre...an old atmospheric theater downtown, will run her films or docs about her. The Bob is still worn here. She was an original.

[@bariwarnaar2303]

Gorgeous Louise Brooks she was beautiful!

[@charlessomerset9754]

"Her black eyes and sleek black hair are as brilliant as Chinese lacquer. Her skin is white as a camellia, her legs a lyric." A perfect description. Great writing for a fan magazine. Louise Brooks remains the most enigmatic actress of her day. But her later memoirs and interviews are absolutely riveting. What an amazing woman. I wish I had known her.

[@1funkyflyguy]

Enigmatic! Hell yeah, she most certainly was.

[@ellyreginald6546]

She was very mixed up. Talented but without direction and emotionally empty. My two cents ..

[@blessOTMA]

Louise Brooks is compelling. The silent era speaks!

[@eyeballsarchive2316]

Great documentary,lulu still looked fun in her golden years.A true original.

[@vicalexander3179]

Louise Brooks is one of the most beautiful actresses who started her career in silent pictures, then talkies, and finally sound films. She was a great dancer, having started with the Ziegfeld Follies as a dancer. She was a great swimmer also, and could dive from the highest levels. She starred in many great movies, I remember Pandora's Box best of all -- Vic Alexander

[@the_resourceful]

I love Louise. She was a beautiful force of nature. Her open full disclosure no holds bars attitude was refreshing. Too bad Hollywood was such a greedy schmuck who didn't appreciate their contracted actors as anything more than bankable faces and bodies.

[@ides1959]

her comment about 'own the girls' was dead on wasn't it?

[@lydialily846]

I really enjoyed this , I have never heard of this actress , but was completely captivated by her . Thank you .

[@free_gold4467]

A very impressive and intelligent woman, I like her.

[@Garbeaux.]

I think the why most people don’t enjoy or care for silent films now is the fact we cannot view them as they were supposed to be viewed. Back then, going to the movies was a social event, concert, and movie all in one. That’s why movie theaters were so big and ornate. They’re supposed to be viewed with a live orchestra, not some standard background score. Every silent movie was sent with a preprinted original score music. They even made live sound effects. It was a completely different experience to what we see in theaters today and silent films replayed on tv. That said, I can appreciate them but I don’t care for them bc of the way they’re presented now. Only a few silent films shown on tv are enjoyable. Prob my fav is Show People with Marion Davies bc you can see how Hollywood itself was in the 1920’s.

[@bettyprettyprincess]

I love silent films even just to watch at home on dvd

[@alanwrobel8455]

Nice description, but some (probably many) 'silents' hold up. I saw Flesh And The Devil with Greta Garbo & John Gilbert a little while ago and was amazed at it's quality of story & production - could easily be shown at a theatre today.

[@mikeletaurus4728]

This particular documentary is nothing short of fabulous, and that only begins to describe its brilliance. This arresting vehicle allows viewers to take in an utterly marvelous period in early filmmaking that has since been both unsurpassed and largely forgotten. Thank you so much for whoever made it, and thanks to you for unleashing it upon us, your perennially naive viewers (despite our best efforts to be hard-boiled). A true masterwork that renders even those remotely interested in filmmaking a required viewing time and again. Top shelf, sir or madam. A true treasure. Many heartfelt thanks.

[@dianaweld7777]

This is a stunning documentary! I remember reading Kenneth Tynan’s article in the New Yorker and I was obsessed with learning more about her and her films. I was so glad that she was able to move to Rochester, N.Y. among especially the Kodak community who respected her work.

[@markandresen1]

That was a biography in its own right. So good.

[@youbetcha6880]

The New Yorker just reprinted that article a couple of weeks ago. It was a long article--even for the New Yorker--and it's a compelling read. In fact, I'm watching a documentary on Louise Brooks on the Criterion Channel as I type this because of that article.

[@tommihail6564]

my favorite starlet of the 20s..

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

What a life she had. I will always admire her.

[@simonbishop4160]

If one person could capture the mood of the optimistic roaring 1920s it was her. To enjoy life to the full and be yourself. Her radiant smile alone could melt a thousand icebergs. Like Helen of Troy. It’s a pity she burned so brightly for such a short time . She could of given Hollywood a lot more. But late 1930s we’re hard-times and attitudes had changed. She returned just too late too Hollywood to continue her career . A shame . A forgotten star that now is remembered . ❤

[@playsaboutmycat]

She has such a vivid memory.

[@lenzybluz4347]

Thanks.. fascinating personality!

[@markandresen1]

"Alice Roberts . . . knew just enough English to insult me." Ha!

[@janethayes5941]

Oh I LOVE Arena. They always do a magnificent job with the docos.

[@miguel-angelsalazar7517]

I just recently discovered her and I’m fascinated by her biography , her beauty and now this amazing documentary which BTW reminds me of the movie CABARET with Liza Minnelli when she was describing that club in Berlin. Now I need to research more because now I think Cabaret has to do a lot with her

[@alanwrobel8455]

Liza Minelli completely channeled Louise Brooks in 'Cabaret'

[@1funkyflyguy]

@@alanwrobel8455 Facts! And you have to give it to Liza, she played that role perfectly.

[@1funkyflyguy]

I think Louise Brooks was also an obvious influence on Isabella Rossellini. She is a virtual doppelganger of her in films Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

[@miguel-angelsalazar7517]

@@1funkyflyguy I never thought about that but you are absolutely right !!

[@zackspaulding]

She is THE iconic Hollywood female of them ALL.❤😍

[@klaassiersma4892]

She was the 20s for me, the embodiment of Art Deco .

[@anniem9595]

Wow! What a life Louise lived...💗

[@e.jenima7263]

i like her, she seemed a very honest but not jaded person. Its good to see she had somebody who cared for her enough to rehabilitate her and try to help her in later life. Sadly virtually 90% of the silent film actors and actresses in old Hollywood were used up and thrown onto the scrapheap and by the 1950's many of them were dead or a Mear broken shadow of there former selves. Louise brooks was luckier than most probably bec. she saw Hollywood for what it was from the very beginning .The Ironic thing was she never wanted to be a actress , all she ever wanted was to be a dancer. Sadly bad luck and crimpling arthritis took that away from her. But apparently she still retained a good/screwed up dark sense of humor till the very end. her favorite 'Half " joke was when she would hang up with fiends she would say " okay see you later ....remember to bring a GUN !" . this would always catch people off guard bc she was to a extent joking but she was allso serious at the same time she found life tedious and boring and perhaps a disappointment towards the end and always from the time of childhood seemed to harbor a death wish. In a sad but reflective Confession in one of her memoirs she confessed she found he whole life to be nothing but a grate experiment in failure she said she failed at everything she ever did....even Cooking but that she would rather have tried everything and failed at it rather than to have done nothing at all ! Louise really was something.

[@mikeletaurus4728]

Thank you for producing this. Very interesting and entertaining, but also thought-provoking.

[@edwardt733]

It's all been said by previous reviewers. Absolutely alluring and intelligent

[@EmeraldWoodArchives]

I adore, and I must repeat, adore Louise Brooks. She was just... sigh almighty.

[@dianabeurman364]

She sure kept her good looks!

[@Stevebaby123]

This was fantastic.

[@senior_ranger]

Never heard of Louise Brooks, yet one look at her and you instantly are transported to the 1920s. Quentin Tarantino obviously knew about her --- look at his movie, "Pulp Fiction" and you'll see the Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) character is absolutely Louise Brooks in every way. Amazing!

[@jobob47]

damn. you right.

[@alanwrobel8455]

A wonderful treatment of the great Louise Brooks! Like other American originals fixed in time (Bettie Page, Marilyn Monroe) she glows in our memories

[@jamesfox2579]

An Incredibly Fascinating Woman!💕

[@checkeredflagfilms]

she had so many great opportunities. she seemed to have squandered many and fell into others. she seems to have eventually become a victim of her on self-indulgence. pity she didn't have an astute business person to manage her career and talk some sense into her wild heart.

[@bariwarnaar2303]

They all turned into scavengers! Not for her interests. Only there own.... Money

[@Neal_Schier]

Interesting isn't it? Such people are always lauded for their independent streak and living life on their own terms. Yet wouldn't have just a slight bit of thinking helped when the bloom came of the rose? Intelligent woman to be sure, but still...

[@sarahleach9997]

How great she gave an interview,priceless.

[@katherinelinder2354]

Special Lady ❤

[@spmoran4703]

We are all talking about her beauty . But let's not forget she was a great writer , dancer and actress.

[@andydodd6458]

Forget Marilyn Monroe. Louise Brooks was a strong, independent, intelligent and absolute beautiful woman.

[@mattsantana7701]

An iconoclastic femme fatale. I would have loved to had known this radiant woman.

[@dj-jn7qs]

Thank you

[@IAM-pq3dz]

She's perfect.

[@BeanieScooter]

Her unremarkable grave marker in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester is a must-visit for her fans, as is reading her autobiography. Her niece, Roseanna, has the similar voice and laugh! One of a kind.

[@BeanieScooter]

@Syd McCreath please 'clue' me in with an explanation...

[@BeanieScooter]

@Syd McCreath done with your nonsense.

[@edcampion3998]

Really enjoyed that Thanks for posting

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

never saw "pandora's box," in full, so i can't comment on it. but i have in my dvd collection "diary of a lost girl" and its outstanding. one of the great films of the 20s. it has drama, comedy, suspense and an excellent social message at the end. and louise brooks just lights up the screen. "windy riley goes hollywood" is on that dvd too. and its a really funny little movie. (man that hearst really destroyed fatty arbuckle's life.) thanks for the video.

[@ellyreginald6546]

See "beggars in life" she has unexpected depths and versatility.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@ellyreginald6546 ... is that one of her american films?

[@sandy3482]

I live in Rochester and MIss Brooks' grave is close to my grandparents. I visit her grave quite often and plant flowers. For my money she was the most beautiful movie star ever to grace the silver screen. When she is in the scene all eyes are on her.

[@edysinsimon8646]

Louise is/was just the best. I simple adore her! Hollywood just fucked her over...This female embodies all the best attributes of my idea of the ideal woman! Flawed...The femme fatal for sure...However she really makes me pine for her! I love you Louise...I always have.

[@e.jenima7263]

I would say she was/was not a fem fatal....she was in many ways like Lu LU , Brooks just like Lu lu was a fem fatal but not a ordinary one she was a almost innocent fem fatal and that is the most scary and frightening bc you do not know what the true nature of the innocent fem fatal truly is, one moment she could be a devoted wife or girlfriend the next a unrestrained whore who cares nothing but for her own pleasures or needs a innocent fem fatal is very primitive it is not a ordered fem fetal who's motives are clear and simple and cordanted a innocent fem fatl's direction is all over the place and the world eats fem fatal's like that alive as it did lulu and as it nearly did brooks herself. Oh yeah Hollywood did fuck her over good but to be fair she always disliked Hollywood so it was no great loss to her in the end and she also fucked herself over a little bit . she snubbed Hollywood because she was a bt of a snob and when the chips wear down she ran back hoping there wear no hard feelings and to see some of her old pals .but of course that was not the case Hollywood had changed in a very short span of time. Movies wear becoming even less artistic work was less stable and many of her fellow actors, directors and producers she knew were already being tossed unto the shit heap by the studios...the full rot of Hollywood was becoming more exposed then . Her own commentary about the foolishness and seedy side of Hollywood is a wonderful and valuable recorce and anybody who even thinks of becoming a actor/tress should read her books and then after that see if they still want to follow such a Carrer which when you think about it is bizarre as fuck pretending and taking on other personalities for other's entertainment I mean its truly nuts when you think about that but Brooks of course as she said was always Playing herself.

[@deborahleone4351]

I love the story.......she was a trip! Someone who gave up all the glamour and money “just ‘cause”! No one like that around today!🙏🕊💕💜✝️✡️🙋‍♀️🌹

[@youjoker9647]

Her & later, Catherine Hepburn were real ground breaking women in Hollywood. I love them both. It's sad in a way that Brooks seemed to be so self destructive with regards her career. Still, I admire her for doing what she wanted & her honesty. Time for a decent film about her life, although I'm sure it would take a fair few films to really do her life justice. For me, she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen & not just a stunner a very intelligent and intellectual woman. Trouble was, how could you ever hope to ever tie her down to a long term, monogamous relationship? She'd break your heart & it would be difficult for any other to match up to her! Breathtaking

[@Lolabelle59]

Barry Paris bio is great, too.

[@loge10]

Totally agree. Took my appreciation of Louise Brooks to a whole new level. May be the best biography of its type I ever read.

[@My2up2downCastle]

I always lived the music at the beginning of Arena

[@ellyreginald6546]

Loved her in "beggars of life" my fav Brooks film.

[@bethbartlett5692]

*Louise had a Most Perfect Vogue Face, Hairstyle, Figure, Style, "Look"* This had to influence her salaries, her roles, and her offers, particularly those from Gentlemen for dates. Breathtaking and the Poster of the 1920's, + remains the same. .

[@tonyclifton265]

shout out to anyone else who remembers Dr Caroline Fraser at Oxford University 1990-93 who looked just like louise brooks

[@francinebarr1204]

She one in A Mullion 😍

[@hjarten]

Great. Thank you.

[@perrystalsisworldofbiology767]

Would have been cool if she still had the short, black bob as an old lady.

[@marceloillanes175]

It´s funny when she sings at 23:28 "Adios muchachos compañeros de mi vida...."

[@jeffpagan7735]

What bothers me about this documentary is that it says by some shift she went from Denishawn dancer to the scandals. She was interviewed herself and Ruth Denis threw her out for having a superior attitude. Barbara Bennett helped get her out. Then she got a job as a follies dancer.

[@ellyreginald6546]

Yep, getting thrown out of Denishawn, I think, though her own stupid fault, ruined her. It took away an important artistic stability. Afterwords being alone in NY she was thrown to the wolves. But then again, "Diary"might never happened.

[@flavour1970]

Very intelligent lady

[@briteness]

They say American lives have no second act, but Louise Brooks did! Without her later-life re-emergence, it is likely she would be forgotten today. Her book, Lulu in Hollywood, is well worth reading.

[@irisrose8503]

She was so down to earth considering her beauty

[@agoraphobicsocialite6897]

Louise Brooks ❤

"Readings from Lulu in Hollywood" by Linda Hunt, 1986

[@soundsofepip]

Charlie Chaplin had a perchant for extremely young women. I believe he didn't date anyone above 19.

[@soundsofepip]

@UCleLTG0Vm5s3jNcoZOdNGCQ yes it's true and go into the archives of his marriages

[@marcoscastillojaen1888]

Su biografía, leerla, es muy interesante.

[@ono147]

funny how the one night stand with a stunt man on 'beggars of life" got omitted

[@sarahkyrwood6086]

Love her 🖤

[@minimalizam2]

31:56 "It is Christmas Eve and she is about to receive the gift that has been her dream since childhood - death by a sexual maniac" wtf?

[@elianamarinho9542]

She was beautiful, modern, ahead of her time 🥰♥️🎩🌹

[@adamnoman4658]

Au contraire. Very much a prisoner of her time. - -

[@carmenkoening7728]

love the hair

[@jameshardin4895]

Enigmatic... good word for it all... did she live life or did life live her... was she to smart for her owe good...? i think most actors now, play themselves... but one line she said in another Video, describes life, get the money, to get the power, to get the sex... Told that line to one guy, he said a lightbulb just went off in my head, he quit his job, and disappeared... i wonder what happened to him, would like to know what he changed to... They left out, some stuff, that i would explain it better... i think she was kind of cheated... like most of life is a cheat... i wish she would have kept acting... and maybe bought some real life to Talk films... But then it became a man's industry...

[@kidsoxoxox]

Brilliant documentary, anyone know the tune at 25:45?

[@Lolabelle59]

It's too bad Brooks and Hitchcock didn't get to work together. I know she's not a Cool Blonde, but it would have been interesting.

[@jackkruese4258]

oh boy she was beautiful back in the 1920s but it’s such a sad tragedy what happened to her in later life.

[@bevrolee8887]

Well yeah… she was just 14 in 1920.

[@madonnalov3r97]

Anyone know what the piece of classical music at 1:16 is called? Would be much appreciated please thanks

[@randymillhouse791]

13:10: The carriage driver sleeps because he is aware that the horse knows the way. Very realistic. Good job to have too!

[@AmberLizzieBow444]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ahlivetuhsidamaro150]

She seems pretty cool too me.

[@ides1959]

Read Hilton Als brilliant essay: "I Am The Happiness of this World" from his book WHITE GIRLS is what ignited my curiousity about Brooks and brought me here. She is indeed energetic and uncompromising in this interview. Life on her own terms, real boldness and courage relevant still.

[@alanwrobel8455]

I recommend you get and read 'Lulu In Hollywood' You'll be amazed!

[@ArmenRa]

🖤

[@yajyhw]

W.C. Fields once famously said, "Women are like elephants. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. He might have had Louise in mind.

[@lucianovargas6677]

A woman like Louis Brooks? Only every one thousand years.

[@HappyMealBieber]

Marylin Monroe before Marylin Monroe

[@user-lo1iz8tj1v]

Marilyn was nothing like Louise Brooks, they are both unique in their own rights.

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

No idea why there's a dummy and they aren't going to realize how insane things have gotten just to have an ending .old movies, nothing else like it lol

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

Lou Lou was Jewish?(peep Chanukah menorah in background)

[@terry4137]

Aren’t most! Still today!

[@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736]

@@terry4137 😂

[@timvandenbrink4461]

English

[@KimF1]

I'm surprised in her old age she didn't do some semblance of bangs. Most women (and men) look awful with a severe ponytail. I thought she would have cared enough about her looks until the day she died...

[@paulkesler1744]

Brooks didn't believe in conformity. Not even to her youthful self.

[@XiomaraThaGoddessMeow]

She doesn't look bad to me... Looks pretty good for someone of her time.

[@KimF1]

@@sydmccreath4554 - We're not in England. In America, it's called BANGS...

[@terraplane4651]

Hustle

[@seleneborrayo1642]

hello everybody my name is markiplier and welcome to five nights at freddys

[@ellDiavolo666]

isn't she the inspiration for Betty Boop

[@perrystalsisworldofbiology767]

Interesting that Berlin was a cultural capital in 1928, then it all went to shit in about 5 years.

[@TricksterDa]

The Weimar Republic was too liberal and never solved the Depression, perfect recipe for overthrow by fascism.

[@lucianboar3489]

Beware of economic crises then, they can change the political landscape very fast

[@klausgh]

The culture didn't go away, in Berlin or elsewhere, people just had to hide it to stay alive. I remember my Bavarian father telling me how he enjoyed listening to AFN straight after the war, to hear his favourite jazz music again.

[@joecobb7276]

I was living in Rochester, New York, a Mafia town, at the time that she was murdered. I was also having trouble with the Catholic Church at that time.

[@dearnapst]

what are you on, she wasn't murdered

[@joecobb7276]

@@dearnapst I generally get accurate information, but at least once I found that information I presumed was accurate, no longer appears to be accurate; therefore, I would be interested in more information to convince me that my information is not correct, if you have it.

[@dariowiter3078]

What reefer have you been smoking, buddy?

[@NuNugirl]

I looked it up, she did die in Rochester of a heart attack.

[@joecobb7276]

@Nora Kramer -- thanks for your comment about Louise Brooks dying of a heart attack. Although I don't want to give away too much additional information, I will merely say that back in the 1950s and 60s women didn't have heart attacks. I read that in a medical report from that time period. I don't recall whether a reason was given for that fact. However, since the United Nations adopted "Agenda 21" in 1992, I've noticed that, all of a sudden, there has been a rapid increase in the number percentage of women who are dying from heart attacks. Although the Roman Catholic Church prefers to kill people with heart attacks, because it is a quick death, you will have noticed that they tend to kill there political enemies by destroying their brain. For example, Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy, Publisher Thomas E. Watson, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc. I left out Presidents Washington (recall the XYZ Affair?) , Zachary Taylor, James Garfield, and William McKinley because I wasn't alive at that time, so I didn't have an opportunity to investigate those murders and I haven't taken the time to investigate the available records; however, even if I had the time, I would have to wade through a lot of intentionally misleading information. In addition to heart attacks, the Roman Catholic Church and their Jewish co-conspirators like to kill people with diabetes and, especially women, with cancer, because people suffer longer and more from these causes of death. I shouldn't have to remind you that, although there are many rapists and Pedophiles in the Roman Catholic Church Hierarchy, there are also many homosexuals, who hate competition from women for the coveted male penis. For additional information about the above read the ebooks by Jackson Bullock on Amazon.com. I've read that it was his intention to add additional information to the 10 books referred to as "College In A Box" but he came under additional severe attacks by Jews, Roman Catholics, and upper caste members of the Indian Castes System. I hope you know that Kamala Harris is from the most evil caste in India: the Brahman caste. The Roman Catholic Church created Communism about two hundred years before Karl Marx. Jews started the West African slave trade, owned 90 percent of the slave ships, and about 50 percent of all the slave ships had 100 percent Jewish crews. Moreover, today, and for many decades earlier, Jews and Catholics have had a Secret Alliance to destroy our republican form of government and bring about a Global Totalitarian Dictatorial Castes System. That's what the virus is all about.

[@globalspiritualrevolutionmedia]

THE ONLY ACTRESS THAT COULD PORTRAY LOUISE BROOKES IS LARA FLYNN BOYLE IN A MAJOR BIOPIC!

[@timvandenbrink4461]

No way!

[@juliestrom412]

Wow She lost all her teeth and didn't get dentures or close confidence!

[@juliestrom412]

More confidence

[@juliestrom412]

Lose!

[@TranzVangal]

Of course she was the most sexual.she was a Scorpio after all

[@jaysoper3974]

another cheap little Hollywood hussy on the make, an old story

[@michaelweston3177]

Oh dear what made you say that rather sad

[@klausgh]

You're cancelled.

[@Gardosunron]

Im sure she was more fun at parties than you .