Grumpy old fart!!!

"If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic."

Louise Brooks

 

 
Two postcards found last week in an antiques shop in Woodbridge, reproductions from 1990

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Louise Brooks – Rolled Stockings – 1927

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Louise Brooks – 1927

 

Forever Louise Brooks

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Louise Brooks – 1929

Louise as Lulu schemes for her escape with conniving accomplice Schigolch (Carl Goetz) in a still from Pandora’s Box (1929).

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Louise Brooks – Pandora’s Box – Galerie Itinerrance

Galerie Itinerrance

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Louise Brooks – 1928

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Louise Brooks – 1927

 

Louise by George Hommel, 1927. This session may have been the result of the studio trying out new looks for her upcoming role as a French “escort” in the lost film Evening Clothes (1927).

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Louise Brooks – 1938

Louise Brooks from her last film, “Overland Stage Raiders” (1938).

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Louise Brooks

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Louise Brooks – 1926

 

Louise in one of the first Paramount publicity photos to feature a different take on her traditional bob. Portrait by George P. Hommel, 1926.

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