Double Lives: On Louise Brooks’s “Thirteen Women in Films”

Featured image: Louise Brooks, interviewed in Lulu in Berlin, 1984 ¤ IN 1966, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES AUTHOR and screenwriter Anita Loos drolly paid tribute to one of the cinema’s most iconic brunettes. Loos had first been friendly with Louise Brooks “in California when she was an early-day sex kitten of the old silent films.” Almost 40 […] The post Double Lives: On Louise Brooks’s “Thirteen Women in Films” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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