Louise Brooks

Career / Biography

Louise Brooks was an American actress in the 1920's and 1930's who appeared mainly in silent films as well as a few sound films. She started her career as a dancer and appeared in the Ziegfeld’s Follies. Her first films were for Paramount in Hollywood but after a falling out she moved to Europe where she starred in her defining role as Lulu in the German silent film Pandora's Box. She was known for her bobbed hair style and is also reputed to have had an affair with Charlie Chaplin.

Films

It Pays To Advertise (1931) Sound
Pandora's Box (1929)

Oscars

None

Quotes

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.