- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (July 5 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0816637318
- ISBN-13: 978-0816637317
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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A whip-flicking display of wit and spite. Brooks writes about her contemporaries with darting precision and down-to-earth compassion. -- James Wolcott, Esquire
A woman of ideas. Her writings—and this, for an actor, is really extraordinary—are about something more than just herself. -- Sight and Sound
A woman of ideas. Her writings—and this, for an actor, is really extraordinary—are about something more than just herself. -- Sight and Sound
Book Description
Film
Introduction by Kenneth Tynan
The collected writings of this icon of the silent era, in a new, more complete edition.
Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, William Paley, G. W. Pabst, and others are collected here. New to this edition is the revelatory "Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs" by Brooks and "The Girl in the Black Helmet" by Kenneth Tynan, which brought about the revival of interest in her work and was the best discussion of Brooks's film work to appear in her lifetime.
"The writing is assured, graceful, and magnetic; the life the dancer-actress-author describes makes most fiction trivial by comparison. . . . This is no ordinary collection of gossipy memoirs. It is a tour de force, as history and as a searching study of human nature." Publishers Weekly
"Brooks is brilliantly perceptive and articulate on everything from the art of film directing to the comedy of W. C. Fields." New York Times
"A minor classic." Film Quarterly
Translation Inquiries: Alfred A. Knopf
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BROOKS AND TYNAN ARE EXTRAORDINARY,
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This review is from: Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition (Paperback)
I am unimpressed by Emily from Seattle's harsh words, which are both snotty and inaccurate. Tynan was the finest theatre critic of his time--and not bad on film, either. His profiles of stage and screen actors, recently collected in one volume, are masterpieces of the genre. In particular, his profile of Brooks was an indelible portrait of a brilliant and beautiful woman. Brooks herself, though not a great actress, was indeed a great star--exquisitely beautiful, highly charismatic, and powerfully erotic. To the best of my memory, Tynan describes her only in these terms, never as the creator of naturalistic film acting. (Incidentally, none of the women named by Emily--Crawford, Davies, Bow, and the insufferable Shearer--could properly be described as an actress. They were merely stars--and distinctly inferior to Brooks in talent, intelligence, and beauty.) Finally, as everyone here (including Emily) acknowledges, Brooks was a first-rate writer herself, and the essays in this book are required reading for anyone interested in silent film.
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Brooks back in print,
This review is from: Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition (Paperback)
Great to have this irreplaceable book back in print. Even better that it now includes the New Yorker article by Kenneth Tynan, "The Girl in the Black Helmet," that helped touch off the 80's Brooks revival, and an additional piece by Brooks entitled "Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs." Still, one can't help coming away from this book wishing there were more material, just as one wishes there were more Brooks films.
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Brooksie in Hollywood...,
This review is from: Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition (Paperback)
If she knew how captivating her writing was she may not have wasted so much time with a broken heart. A well written synopsis of some of her mis-adventures. Lending insight to how she viewed others and herself. With and without grace.
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