Louise Brooks appears here in the first six minutes of an early talkie, which also starred Carole Lombard. Apologies for the poor video and sound quality.
Donna Martin - There were very few talents like Louise Brooks. She was very special. She didn't play the Hollywood game. If she had, she would have graced and starred in many more films, but it wasn't meant to be. She's a true icon nonetheless.
Her voice was beautiful. Good diction, no discernible accent. They blackballed her. I'll bet the canary murder case with her voice would have made her a star here in the US. To bad she passed it up.
Always loved her silent films and mystique, but it is Colleen Moore who should be better remembered, and Lulu owed a lot to her style wise. Colleen was the biggest star of her day, and only because MOMA did not take good care of her film prints do we find she is less famous today.
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SHE WAS ON HER WAY OUT OF PARAMOUNT SINCE SHE WAS 7TH BILLED...RUMOR HAS IT, BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT RETURN FROM GERMANY TO DUB HER PART FOR THE SOUND VERSION IN "THE CANARY MURDER CASE" WHEN THEY TURNED IT INTO A TALKIE, PARAMOUNT DECIDED TO RUIN HER CAREER...REMEMBER JOHN GILBERT????
Louise was a stunning looking actress. But to rank her among the highest pantheon of Hollywood greats or to say she's the greatest (as one comment-er here does) is a bit of a stretch. Her filmography is short and only one of her films is viewed much anymore.Perhaps if she had stayed in the game longer she would be ranked higher. Yes, Hollywood can be a crass and brutal place but many other actresses have stuck with it. Most ridiculous are those who think she should have stayed in Germany. What? And make films under the Nazis? Most of the other great German film artists left around the advent of the Third Reich mostly coming to that same Hollywood she shunned where they created some great American films.
I think it's because her passion is really dancing and not acting. Film historians say that she is one of the first actors to do a more "natural" kind of acting since in the silent era, it is common that actors do a bit exaggerated movements and expressions..
W.hat a waste,only 25,fine voice,and that face. Whenever I read how a mogul gets his, I'm never sorry for him. Countless talents like Louise were stepped on and disgarded.
Was hoping to see her in a scene with Carole Lombard. Perhaps they had no scenes together in this movie. In any case, her role in this seemed to be a terrible waste of her talent.
She's the Greatest. There's nothing like her.
Donna Martin - There were very few talents like Louise Brooks. She was very special. She didn't play the Hollywood game. If she had, she would have graced and starred in many more films, but it wasn't meant to be. She's a true icon nonetheless.
Her voice was beautiful. Good diction, no discernible accent. They blackballed her. I'll bet the canary murder case with her voice would have made her a star here in the US. To bad she passed it up.
Always loved her silent films and mystique, but it is Colleen Moore who should be better remembered, and Lulu owed a lot to her style wise. Colleen was the biggest star of her day, and only because MOMA did not take good care of her film prints do we find she is less famous today.
The mishandling of Moore's films was indeed a great tragedy. I thought both actresses were great.
I do not agree! Louise was unique the one woman I feel 1 step above was
Hedy Lamarr!!!! Untouchable!!!
Anything with Brooksie is worth seeing........... :)
Please, Please post entire film!!!!!!!!
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SHE WAS ON HER WAY OUT OF PARAMOUNT SINCE SHE WAS 7TH BILLED...RUMOR HAS IT, BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT RETURN FROM GERMANY TO DUB HER PART FOR THE SOUND VERSION IN "THE CANARY MURDER CASE" WHEN THEY TURNED IT INTO A TALKIE, PARAMOUNT DECIDED TO RUIN HER CAREER...REMEMBER JOHN GILBERT????
I think your sound quality is great! thank you for uploading this?
Get a look at them gams, as if we need to be told !
Louise was a stunning looking actress. But to rank her among the highest pantheon of Hollywood greats or to say she's the greatest (as one comment-er here does) is a bit of a stretch. Her filmography is short and only one of her films is viewed much anymore.Perhaps if she had stayed in the game longer she would be ranked higher. Yes, Hollywood can be a crass and brutal place but many other actresses have stuck with it.
Most ridiculous are those who think she should have stayed in Germany. What? And make films under the Nazis? Most of the other great German film artists left around the advent of the Third Reich mostly coming to that same Hollywood she shunned where they created some great American films.
I think it's because her passion is really dancing and not acting.
Film historians say that she is one of the first actors to do a more "natural" kind of acting since in the silent era, it is common that actors do a bit exaggerated movements and expressions..
Oh no, this Brooks girl will never do...
W.hat a waste,only 25,fine voice,and that face. Whenever I read how a mogul gets his, I'm never sorry for him. Countless talents like Louise were stepped on and disgarded.
if only she did a few more avant garde - but europe in the 30s was a changing place
Was hoping to see her in a scene with Carole Lombard. Perhaps they had no scenes together in this movie. In any case, her role in this seemed to be a terrible waste of her talent.