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Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, was released in Germany in 1929. (The film had premiered on September 27, 1929 at the Gartenbau-Kino in Vienna, Austria.) In this once controversial production, Brooks plays the title role — the “lost girl”. The film is the sensational story of a young woman who is seduced and conceives a child, only to be sent to a home...

Now We're in the Air, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1927. The film, once thought lost, is a comedy about two fliers (a pair of “aero-nuts” called “looney Lindberghs”) who wander on to a World War I battle field near the front lines. The film was one of a number of aviation-themed stories shot in 1927 (following Lindbergh’s histori...

Jerome Charyn emailed to let me know he has written a new story involving Louise Brooks. The acclaimed novelist has written about the actress (both fiction and non-fiction) in the past. Back in 2020, he penned a novella, Lulu in Love, which was e

Film International has published my new article, "How Louise Brooks Came to Play Lulu: A New Look at an (old) Legend". It deconstruct the long held belief that Brooks was cast as Lulu in Pandora's Box after G. W. Pabst saw her in the Howard Hawks film, A Girl in Every Port. It's long, and may be the most significant article I have yet written on the actre...

Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, premiered on this day at the Gartenbau-Kino in Vienna, Austria in 1929. (The film was officially released in Germany on October 23, 1929.) In this once controversial production, Brooks plays the title role — the “lost girl”. The film is the sensational story of a young woman who is seduced and conceives a child, ...