Hollywood's Lost Starlet
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Louise Brooks was the ultimate heartbreaker. Unable to stay faithful to any of her lovers, she embarked on a pleasure-seeking mission, slipping into the arms of anyone she fancied-men and women alike. With her iconic black bob and celebrity status, Louise felt invincible. Unfortunately, her wild and free-spirited ways led her to an end so tragic, it’s unforgettable.
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A couple of years ago, a friend and I went to find her grave in Rochester, the small stone was completely covered over with grass, we cleaned it off, shined it up best we could and left flowers and our respects for this timeless legend
Excellent gesture
Once you know what happens when you die, you will never bother visiting a graveyard again - because no one who has passed on is there.
@@Simon-pl2ziGraves are for the living,not the dead!
@@gooders4648 They are for the living, and the living like to leave flowers.
@@Simon-pl2zi You will never know what happens when you die.
You left out a great deal of important stuff about Louise's life. She was hired by the Kodak company in the 1950s to collect as many still extant film reels and negatives from silent film era, to catalog them and identify films that had been lost. She performed brilliantly in this role as archivist and librarian for the film industry. I have been unable to find out what has happened to this magnificent filmography collection since the Kodak company ceased to be a significant player in the camera industry. I hope that someone has purchased and rescued it. It is Louise's most enduring legacy.
agree
How can it be her most enduring legacy when there is no evident trace oi f it to be found? 🤔
@@rainblaze. You sure know how to rain on a parade. This person is sharing a precious memory that we can all enjoy -- or not.
@@marylouleeman591 Thank you for saying it so I don’t have to.
Thank You !!!
She was stunning.
The true It girl
no more to say
@@alimantado373 What's interesting,too, is that Miss Brooks and Miss Bow not only knew each other but admired each other's style of performing!
Many actresses of the era were stunning, but they look very dated now. Brooks had a timeless beauty.
Absolutely gorgeous even in her old age. Beautiful hair.
I had a film school teacher from Toronto who was a Canadian film critic for the CBC for many years. He told me he was friends with Louise Brooks and they would often chat on the phone, and he would visit her in Rochester in the years before she died. He made it sound like she was happy and content with her life. If that’s any consolation.
Gerald Pratley?
Dying alone is not that tragic. I expect I will, too. You don't have to be lonely just because you're alone.
I hope you live and enjoy yourself
Get a dog. Blow your mind when you discover how much happiness there's still left in you. Totally gives you a reason to live.
Sometimes the loneliest place is in a roomful of people
You will be happy to know she had a lot of friends. Including my grandmother
Sage advice given to me @ 25…now 62.
“Better to be alone & be lonely than with someone and lonely.” A wise college professor told me this…and I often thought she spoke from personal experience. Later…I too in a 20 yr marriage.
Love you
If people are still talking about her today then she wasn't a loser
Right. Thus, Jeffrey Dahmer was a winner? I don't think that's how it works bubba.
@@Bawbcaht It's the way HOW people talk about you. Bubba
Not a failure, just someone who didn't fit the available boxes. It happens to many talented people, because they are different from the norm, and are usually misunderstood by others.
Like Marilyn Monroe with a higher IQ than Einstein. Seriously. Google it. I think it was 168 compared to 165
PTSD and alcoholism destroyed her career, but not her. You cannot ignore those terrible factors.
Yeah same with Hayden, not to mention the kid who played that p5ycho prince/king in GoT.
Talented enough, successful enough, but they just didn't vibe with the scene.
I once thought Hedy Lamarr was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. But I have to
update that view. In her day Louise Brooks takes 1st Place. Incredible, mesmerizing, beauty.
Hedy Lamarr? A tough choice, but me personally, I think Hedy is still on top of the list. Along with Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
Hell, they're all tied for first!
Except Lauren Bacall. She wins.
She was gorgeous.
In Miss Brooks's small town birthplace of Cherryvale, Kansas- there lived another little girl a few blocks away- Vivian Roberta Jones and the two became good friends while both sets of parents lived in Cherryvale. However, by the time they each were teens, they each family had moved away but both these girls became aspiring performers with Miss Brooks becoming an international film star by the late 1920's while her onetime playmate Miss Jones was still struggling. Long-short is that after decades of struggles when she was past 40, Miss Jones would become world famous herself in the brand new medium of television playing the protagonist's bestie called Ethel Mertz and credited with the name of Vivian Vance while Miss Brooks's own fortunes has waned and she languished in obscurity. Despite the fact that Miss Vance herself had her own struggles with depression which she was rather open about, it's unknown whether these two onetime Kansas small town playmates ever reconnected much less resumed their friendship before Miss Vance's 1979 death. I'd like to think they may have because I think these two could have been solaces to each other in their twilight years.
That is inteeresting, thank you for details
Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas
@@deborahshallin5843 True! Interestingly enough, while it doesn't appear that these Kansas-born performers crossed paths while living in their homestate, years later Miss Brooks would pronounce Mr. Keaton 'the most beautiful man she ever saw!'
I'm sure he ever met Miss Vance, though (despite Mr. Keaton having been a comedy mentor to Lucy while considered a hasbeen to others in the late 1940's).
I'm NOT sure Mr. Keaton ever met Miss Vance. . .
@@wardarcade7452she did because lucy had keaton guest on the lucy show in the 1960s.
Mogul and founder of CBS Bill Paley was kind to her. He employed her and she wrote for a local NY newspaper. Paley provided an income for her for the rest of her life.
So she didn't die in poverty? I hope not. This video isn't very clear on that.
@@carloscortez-hv2oh She lived in NYC not as a homeless, that's telling a lot.
What a kind man . Thanks Stephanie , you just put a smile on my face
@@jeffwarren6906 thank you Jeff. You made my day.
This tracks with user-rg's comment about her becoming an archivist. Paley would track for me with The Paley Archive. Thank you!
She was so pretty. Loved her hair. I think her childhood abuse scarred her for life. Her story was very similar to her contemporary Clara Bow. Both had such desperate lives, looking for the love they did not get in childhood. I thought they were both so cool I even cut my hair like that when I was a young girl. She had such an iconic look.
Also found myself thinking of Lee Miller.
Honestly, her wanderlust, including her serial infidelity, makes me wonder if she had PTSD and/or ADHD. It's a brutal combination, and would have been so much worse before the conditions were recognised.
I also love her hair
@@SewardWriter In those times a womans way forward was through a man. So perhaps forgive her. Just saying 🙏
@@SewardWriter I'm assuming the abuse at the hands of her neighbor was of a se&ual nature. If that is the case, It seems that those who have been abused in this way can go one of two ways: they either want absolutely nothing to do with intimacy or they become promiscuous. I believe it is very likely that she had PTSD caused by that early, traumatic abuse. Had it not been for that, I wonder what she could have become. Such a tragic life.
She was such a good actress too. Very natural in a time when that wasn't the Hollywood style.
Agreed! Many in that silent film era really hammed it up for the camera. Hers was a subtle approach, very ahead of her time.
One of the prettiest actresses, I love her !!
You always speak with gentle respect, especially of those who knew little to none while alive. Thank you again.😊
Looking good !
She was a real beauty!!❤
She was interviewed during her days in Rochester and so very forthcoming about her past. But was struck me most was her praise of her fellow actresses. There was something so genuine and kind about her despite the difficulties she encountered. Years ago, I saw Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl at a revival house. They were wonderful and she was magnificent.
Her acting style was so modern, so far removed from the theatrical almost melodramatic approach of the time.
Pandora's Box is astonishing, and Louise Brooks was a completely unique actress far ahead of her time.
Her face was so beautiful, and it still captivates me.
Always Lulu for me. She was her own worst enemy and a very complicated woman, which is why I like her. The video of her is from a BBC miniseries called 'Hollywood' which was produced in the early 1980s. It's available here on YT. I think there are 8 episodes of an hour each. To see her and hear her speak is amazing. She still had such a quick wit and to hear her praise Clara Bow, in the early 1980s, was unheard of. Clara was long forgotten then but has since come back to the spotlight. Watch both of Lulus films made with Pabst. They're worth it just for her 'natural' style of acting, the direction, lighting, and cinematography that is pure art.
Wonderful post, thank you. Notably, she created this natural style of acting long before Stella Adler, who taught Marlon Brando, who was made famous for it. And long before Lee Strasberg pretended he taught anything at all of the sort to Marilyn Monroe, who was a natural actress on her own, despite taking endless lessons.
Every now and then someone comes along that has a beauty that is almost from another world. She had it, her look is 100 years old now but is one that a woman today would crave. She had the same "It" attributed to Clara Bow...her image still jumps out of the movie screen.
Every man loved her..and a lot of women too.
Louise Brooks would be a star today.
She is.
She is, her name is Anne Hathaway.
Louise was THE Goddess of silent film.R.I.P.
Correction; She’s the Goddess of all creation.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have a song about Louise Brooks called Pandora's Box, it was this song that introduced me to the Beauty that is Louise Brooks, well worth a listen....
As it was with me. Good tribute song to a beautiful lady.
I used to love looking at Louise Brooks in my Dad's old silent film books. She always used to look so well-groomed and carefree.
Its watching these stars life stories that makes me feel happy I have a simple life .
Poor Louise. A true beauty with more than enough talent to have become a first rate movie star. I wish someone had told her that you don't need to love someone to be happy, as long as you can let someone love you.
Overall, her life was an amazing one, and she had no regrets near the end. It is well worth watching the long interview with her, done when she was in her early 70s. She was still striking and wonderfully articulate.
Louise Brooks WAS a first rate star, and that has now been recognised in the way Pandora'sBox has been re-appraised. The reason Pabst cast her for this film instead of Dietrich, was that he saw th exact qualities in her that he wanted for Lulu. He saw that in how she acted in the Hoard Hawks silent short, A Woman in Every Port. Louise was also sensational in Prix de Beaute, made in France by Pabst and Rene Clair.
Finally, when you watch the interview, you will realise that Louise completel uinderstood that her beauty made her attractive to men, and that wealthy men were happy to support her, mostly for the duration of an affair. But in one case, that of Bill Paley, he was kind and gave her a lifelong stipend in 1943, which gave her a degree of security.
We all die, but few of us go down in history as Louise Brooks has.
Tell that to all the crazy and lonely cat women...
Thank you for such a good story like always ❤
You're welcome 😊
Louise Is Phenomenal And She Made Her *MARK* ... She Will Never Ever Ever Be Forgotten ...
Her Movies Are *Fun* To Watch And Your Eyes Are On Her The Entire Time ...
*Pandora's Box* Is An Absolute Masterpiece Which I Have Had The Privilege Of Seeing On The Big Screen A Few Times ...
Thanks Louise ... You Live Forever ...
😮😮😮😮😮😮
May 29 2024 (2330 hrs)
beautiful lady
She really was
Your voice & way of speaking is lovely.
This was very well done.🔥
I discovered her book, "LuLu in Hollywood" , many years ago. Until that time, I had never heard of her. Some of the photos of her as a young star just blew me away. No one ever knows where life may take them, especially those people who are free spirits and risk takers. Winner or loser, she had quite a journey. RIP, Louise.
She was a natural beauty for sure and from the films I’ve seen, she was very talented. Sad her later years turned out the way they did.
The Best Biography On Louise Brooks in The Entire Internet 📣📣📣📣 BRAVO !
She was a unique beauty and the camera definitely loved her. People have to know that childhood trauma can send one's life into spiraling trajectory. Living life on your own terms takes a special kind of insight & strength. Ms. Brooks was truly a fascinating individual. Thanks so much for this.
Louise was a minor celebrity here in Rochester into the early 1980's. I met her once when she gave a talk at the Eastman House, and my neighbor Jack Garner wrote several articles about her in the local paper (and also hosted Louise at that talk she gave). She's buried here, and her grave is frequently visited.
Sadly she was her own worst enemy. She realized that until she could exert self control, nothing would go right for long. But by that time her chances had slipped away. Youth is short and fickle.
I agree. I think she created her own tragedy. I agree that she didn't seem capable of loving anybody else, and I think that woman producer referred to near the beginning of the video was right when she referred to her as an "entitled princess." It seemed like she was given every opportunity in life, love and career but got bored too easily and never appreciated what she did have.
PTSD really messes things up for people. Some are more able to find some strength later in life, while others, the abuse they suffered, the trauma is just too much.
@@flowerfaeri hollyweird attracts the narcissistic types, always will or at least until studio execs figure out how to make stars using AI
@@flowerfaeriLB didn''t create her own tragedy it was inflicted upon her. The abuse when she was nine left a lifelong trauma. She did however create her own opportunities and made a success of it. The success foundered sure she didn't exactly make it easy for herself but the die was cast long before.
Such an icon of the flapper era. And such a sad story..
She is a lot stronger than she looks, despite economic hardship and physical and mental abuse, she is a fighter and adapted to changing environment and chose to live.
What a fascinating story. It's so sad to see the decline of a once great actress.
She’s hotter now than ever - what a life- even if she was a slut, she was amazing
Tragic childhood sexual rape and continued assaults. Totally destroyed her future happiness.💔 😢💔😢💔😢💯
C'mon, abusing drugs destroyed her life/longevity...
@@buzzwaldron6195 The drugs are a symptom, trying to regulate the CPTSD.
@buzzwaldron6195 you do know people turn to drugs/alcohol to try to cope with abuse😢
@@markwalker2627 - You do know that's just an excuse?
@@buzzwaldron6195 WTF?? Excuse Jesus wept😧
She was one Hell of a good-looking woman!
Louise was not a failure. I wish she knew that. Successful people feel like failures. Often bipolar does that to them.
You're so right. She lived her life as a "free spirit," and lived a life of dreams. But in a world devoid of spirit but full of money minions and dollars drones, she would always be an existential threat which required containment or elimination.
@@iamericandavinci artists are made to feel bad about their being.
im so gratified by your comment. i believe our miss brooks lived life on her terms and in spite of the hard times would have made the same choices all over again. she was always a dancer in her heart
@@gloriacervantes3300 thanks. Artists are themselves regardless of everything going against them.
Thank you for telling the story of this forgotten actress. 👍
Wonderful LuLU 🌟🌟 Once beautiful, always beautiful. Once a legend, always a legend….
Though I have lived in South Florida for 40 years, Rochester, New York is my hometown and I used to deliver prescriptions to Miss Brooks when I was young. She scared the hell out of me lol. Later on I helped wait on her at the Rio Bamba Restaurant when she came in with Kenneth Tynan. I can still clearly remember that night, she looked like a beautiful old witch.
Well done! 👍👍
Why did she scare you?
@@d.l.l.6578 well, along with the fact that I was only about 13 and very shy, she looked very much like a beautiful old witch. I really remember very little about her from the prescription delivery time, but I very clearly remember the night she came in the restaurant where I worked. By that time I knew who she was.
I believe she and Kenneth Tynan and a brief affair.
@@conrad152 I don't know, wasn't she pretty elderly by the time that she met him? I don't think she had met him in person until the time frame that I saw them both together.
Wow that's a great encounter you were lucky to have thx for sharing.
I simply had no idea about Louise brooks - thank you for heartfelt value adding history. Far too many artists go unheard of. She was a star.
A fascinating lady. She had an honesty and directness about her that could be seen on the screen. And a casual way of performing that seemed modern and real. An original!
So very beautiful and talented. It's so sad that in the day and age that she was at her peak was also the times when women had no real voice to defend themselves and were often abused by older men.
She changed her name to MJ McDermott and was the weather lady for years on KCPQ Channel 13 in Seattle. Retired now.
Lol I remember MJ fellow Washingtonian ❤
Roddy McDowall was her friend and took a lot of pictures of her. I have two biographies of her and several pictures were taken by him.
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark has a song about her: Pandora's Box released six years after her death.
Hearst was a villain.
Murdoch and his sons are no better.
I heard a comment by Liza Minelli that when she was preparing to film Caberet, she asked her father, Vincente Minelli, what she should do. He told her to watch Louise Brooks!
We all die alone. Death, like birth is a truly solitary event. To be alone but never lonely sounds like a very happy life.
I think the world would be a more respectful place if more conversations were had about hyper sexuality and gender identity issues . Media never interviews licensed therapists to discuss the effects of childhood s*xual trauma.
Yesterday, I saw a teenager transitioning and they were so kind, but had a noticeable mental illness. I wondered what the trauma was in his/her life and felt saddened. Why would a surgeon and doctor not address the extreme anxiety that teen had? It broke my heart and their immunity system was so bad the the sunshine on a beautiful day caused he/she to break out in hives everywhere. What kind of meds are prescribed and what happens to lifespans ? The solution seemed to compound the abuses IMO.
@danih7577, that’s tragic but my opinion is Dr’s are quick to prescribe drugs rather than address the REAL issue. Providing “legal” drugs/medications only adds additional problems.
@@estherstephens1858 I 💯 agree!
Inv the future, transitioning will be seen for what it is, a Fashionable fad as those who survive the mental and physical trauma relate to the world how horrific it was.
Stunning! 🎉
So is your profile picture, you look very happy 😊
Fascinating. I'd never heard of her.
Saw Pandora's Box last night at wiltons (former music hall in the east end of london). Great film. Louise Brooks was mesmerising.
I always wondered what happened to her. Thanks For the Bio . ❤ Look... She had a full life with many Roles. One was Stardom. Good for her. As someone else said "she survived" but even more she got to write a book on it! Thats amazing....I think I'll read it!
I really am sorry about this lady. I hope she is now at peace now that she’s gone.
She lived in Rochester, New York. I actually lived in the same apartment building that she had lived in in the 1980s.
And your name is Rochester too, serendipitous.
Louise had all of the beauty, talent and brains any Hollywood actress could possibly want and still ended up wrecking her life and career. As a Brooks fan this saddens me.
Sad and tragic. Still, she did have an enviable life. Very nice, empathetic and interesting portrayal of her life story. Good job.
Sounds to me like she was her own worst enemy. Almost every child has a bad story. If we all used it as an excuse for bad choices no one would be doing good. What happened as a child was not her choice. Every stupid move after was her choice.
I love the baby doll hair style and her eyes are magic. Very interesting. Count me as a fan.
Another Kansas native, destined for stardom. Wichita, KS has been the starting point for way more famous people than one might think.
If you listen to these, it’s always tragic as if death doesn’t come to everyone eventually. They usually say taken too soon even if you are Ninety Eight. It’s always sad that the career didn’t result in more accolades, I seek my own company and I dislike working long hours. The entertainment industry seems particularly harsh
she's still a legend!
Incredible storytelling about a unique and fascinating lady.
Louise Brooks for me the most beautiful woman of the time !! Love the song from OMD about her life ( Pandoras Box )
She's a great actress.
She was so beautiful and so talented ~ it's tragic she couldn't see her true worth
It’s clear to see that a life led by self will run riot: dishonesty, selfishness, self-centeredness, etc. will not turn up the best fruits
Childhood sexual abuse ruins many people.
Thank you for such an interesting video of yet another star who had a terrible childhood secret that caused her to never trust in “true love”! That’s why she went from man to man, only wanting temporary attention, and also knowing it was only fleeting. So very sad.😔 🧑🏻🦰🇨🇦
This was so fascinating. I've seen her face before but I never knew anything about her. Thank you for all the effort you put into making such a fine video. She was beautiful. Now I'm going to find her movies and watch them.
She was not a failure. Life is hard and she survived many things and did her best.
Louise was undoubtedly damaged by her childhood experiences but so was Marilyn Monroe and in spite of what has been written about both of these women it was Marilyn who managed to chart a course through Hollywood and make a success of her career. People often don’t understand that Hollywood was a business and like any businesses they need to be profitable to keep going, Hollywood couldn’t afford difficult stars especially when they had so many other options. Many people today praise Louise without ever seeing much or any of her work. Refreshingly, she had no illusions about herself and her place in film history and she chided film historian Kevin Brownlow for lionising her and ignoring Clara Bow, this generous act led to a justified reappraisal of Clara’s career. Having said that, Louise was a genuine star who shone brightly for a time and could have extended her career if she had been wiser. The word starlet was a term coined in Hollywood and described a young girl who had not yet made it in Hollywood, some starlets never became stars. Louise Brooks did become a fully fledged star. Her later career as a film commentator was very successful and she was in demand for documentaries about Hollywood and saw her appear on many of them. As someone said, dying alone isn’t necessarily tragic and in spite of the problems Louise Brooks battled with and her horrendous childhood experiences, she a good film career and although she threw away, it still helped her to get enjoyable work and recognition in later life, she was neither lost or forgotten.
Maybe some of your favorite moments in life will be when you are on your way to see someone but there is no one there with you at that moment.
Brooksie was a legend
Find this on RUclips - Louise Brooks in a talkie.
You won't be disappointed. Louise Brooks in a comedy after her rebellious vamp period.
Living to the ripe old age of 78, having been a movie star on two continents, is hardly a tragic life. Your clickbait title and description is really unnecessary…
It’s not all rainbows and unicorns.
Lovely woman from the looks of things. She would have been great in Cabaret, if it was around in the early 30s when it's set
One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. I was dumb struck by her poise and beauty. A look and a fashion that has traveled through the decades, she certainly would not look out of place with today’s fashion and looks
I thought this video was going to end in a tragic demise for the beautiful Ms. Brooks. It did not. She didn't die from an overdose or suicide. She died naturally after all that she had gone through. I don't see her as a failure in life. She was an incredibly strong woman who did what she had to do to survive in her world so many years ago. RIP.
To be fair she was a bit old for Chaplin. W.R. Hearst was a monster.
She was very beautiful...x
Her life wasn't as tragic as you made it out to be. She saw and did things most of us can only dream of doing. She was given a lot of opportunities and blew them. She also hurt a lot of people. She lived a full life
You forgot to mention that she did not like authority.
We love you Louise! You were not in any way a failure. Truth!
She lived on the street I live on now in Rochester, NY
It would be interesting to be able to go back to when she was acting and see what she was really like as a person.
She grew up in the same town as my mom. A tragic story.
One important relationship she had was with William S. Paley who gave her a stipend for the rest of her life.
She was quite beautiful, I wish I had a Time Machine !
The interview with her is funny as hell. She was so cocky and her take on marlene Dietrichs fascination with her is a hoot. Her career ended because shes got a kansas twang unbefitting a sex siren. She didnt sound terribly upset with how things turned out.
Nobody can die for you or with you! We do our death alone! We will all leave some things unsaid and some things undone! May he/she rest in peace because life's challenges can be difficult as well enduring our entire life! These challenges don't respect age, gender or race! What is important is how we handle these challenges which shows us our character and outlook of the lives we have lived! This is up to each individual human being!
OMG, I'm from Rochester, NY. I had no idea she lived there at the end of her life and is buried there. I am a HUGE 1920s fan.
Absolutely beautiful and so sad😑
Great Story! Should be a movie
Truly fantastic.