Yes! My grandfather Alfred Savoir directed Louise in a couple of films while they were both still in Hollywood. He said she was not only gorgeous but intelligent and deep, and that she had no business in that business. I suppose she knew that too. There’s even a picture of them together on some Hollywood film set (maybe Ernst Lubitsch?) He urged her to stay in Europe but at the end she wasn’t interested in all that. She was always a writer he said and a very witty conversationalist. The way the camera captures her depth and charm and wily nature is nonpareil ❤ Thank you for a lovely video !
I note your grandfather was a true renaissance man - law graduate, playwright, magazine editor, aviator and recipient of the Legion d'Honneur. You must be very proud of him.
She went insane in Hollywood. I am near her age when she died now and I know Hollywood really well (my family is one of the founding families of the California town back in the 1800s) and we girls were warned by our parents when we were young to avoid Hollywood which my parents considered to be 'Hollow Wood.'
Just look at the seduction scene in "Pandora's Box" with Fritz Kortner. Her gaze is ultra-modern, a woman in full charge of her sexuality, there is nothing oldfashioned about her.
She was gorgeous, lived by her own rules, burned all her bridges, refused to kiss ass, made no apologies for the life she chose, and I love her for all of it!
@@professorgraemeyorstonyou mean too intelligent for small male mentality. I encountered that too. Born in 1959. Cant take responsibility for for it. Just trailblazed thru it. I thank my predecessors sooooo much. Women have been controlled by small male mentality for centuries. I am sure I would have had a lobotomy had I been born 20 to 30 years earlier. No more manipulation and control the men.. Yay! I love, love men!
She was so intelligent. If you’ve read her film criticism, you’ll know she wasn’t simply recycling anecdotes from her movie hey-day or passing on old gossip. She had a very keen mind, a wicked sense of humour, and a gift for the telling phrase. In some ways she reminds me of the writer Jean Rhys, another woman who experienced childhood sexual abuse, a remote mother, unstable career, exploitative relationships, impulsive and self-defeating behaviour patterns, alcoholism, grey-area escort work, and decades of poverty and neglect -only to re-emerge from literary obscurity with her late novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ as a great, great author. Oh, and they even looked alike! (At least in their flapper finery and bobbed hairstyle).
I empathize with her struggles. She was incredibly resilient and courageous. Childhood trauma, including neglect, leaves one with great emotional pain. I’m glad she made peace with her mom 😊
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" - Henri Langlois. I'm different from others because I fell in love with her back in 1980s in Richard Leacock's documentary that you shared in a clip. She was an old woman with bad teeth, anthric hands and a tattered bathrobe, but she was mesmerizing with her voice and facial and hand gestures. I saw "Pandora's Box" later and it was incredible. The camera really captured something special in her. I have only seen three female silent stars that had that quality: Louise, Marion Davies and Clara Bow.
Right? I can't imagine having this attitude to a dependent creature or person. I think she was either narcissistic or at least extremely selfish. Even though I get her not wanting to be just about kids, but there are ways to accomplish that without being callous. This was callous disregard, plus the accusation of her then 9 year old daughter, I think she was a textbook narcissist @xxLornyTunesxx
@@professorgraemeyorston As a footnote. OMD made the song Pandora's Box in the 1990s and showed clips from the film throughout the music video. If you haven't seen it then it's worth watching even if it's just for the song
I have a tinted framed photo of her. I swear those smouldering peepers follow you around the room. I have always found her timeless, magnetic and gutsy. Great actress with so much presence, appeal and style. A real rebel spirit and pioneer in the creative arts. Great presentation, thankyou.
What a MARVELOUS tribute!!! She was absolutely iconic with a timeless beauty! I admire her brave spirit to always adapt & bounce back. She definitely had conviction!
@professorgraemeyorston , Hello, HELLO there. I will definitely watch more of your wonderful documentaries. I am very much intrigued! I think that we can actually all learn from these talented individuals, they are an INSPIRATION to all of us. Their lives where not in vain & their legacy will live on!
Louise Brooks was both a legend and an icon. That’s very impressive given how long her acting career even lasted. She experienced the extreme highs and very lows that came with her way of conducting her life. She was very truthful when she wrote and talked about her Hollywood years. She sugar coated nothing which was a rarity in that time. Most actors played the role the studio forced themselves into no matter how old got. Like Gloria Swanson was *always* the forever movie star until she died. Even Joan Crawford once remarked people don’t want to see the girl next door but Joan Crawford the Movie Star. Louise Brooks did not play the Hollywood game like she was expected. She had a natural rebelliousness which led to her being both a head of her time but also a legendary icon of the late 20’s. No other actress of the time period epitomized the roaring twenties like Louise Brooks. She is the Roaring Twenties! 🎥🎬📽️🎞️
What's amazing about her in that. During the Roaring Twenties she was like in her late teens, and she was already well-known. The girls that are the same age as she was then couldn't hang with her intellectually or in any other way. And I'm talkin about the chuckleheads that are out now. Her and Tallulah Bankhead were sorta like.🙂
7 N Goodman St Apt 307 I'm from Rochester. So sad that she was in that little apartment all by herself. I hope that during her final days she had company. Most beautiful woman ever.
She was a great beauty who had a look that transcends the styles that identify so many actresses as belonging to the 1920s. But I think it was her personality that also played a large part of her beauty, and I suspect she was far more interesting that she considered herself as being. Were she alive today and in Hollywood, she'd most likely be lighting up the movie screens. I'm so glad that there were people still interested enough in the 1950s to make it possible for the world to rediscover her, and for her to record at least parts of her life story and come to some place of peacefulness in her life.
I've loved her since I was 16 in 1983. She was simultaneously the cutest actress of all time, and one of the most intelligent, fiercely independent and determined women in Hollywood at that time, a time that was especially hard for women - it's bad enough now. That was an amazing time, but there is so much that we now take for granted that just didn't exist then. Louise Brooks really shone a light on so much of what made it so hard for women, and she inspired so many to fight for what they deserve.
In my 20`s in the 80`s I knew nothing of Louse at all . One year a news paper gave a free calendar with pictures of remastered black/white 1920/30`s stars ... Bogart , Cagney ,Bergman etc amongst these was a a portrait of Louise ..... and I fell for her and I have never stopped being fond of her . Love you Lulu ❤💋
What an awesome bio! And what a woman! To quote Frank Sinatra. She did it her way! One of the few actresses who was a strong woman who knew what she wanted and went after it without compromising herself like others to further her career! I gravitate towards people like her! She accepted her fate without feeling sorry for herself without blaming others for her downfall!
Kudos to you for telling this story so well. Her resilience is inspiring, and an example to all women who yearn to carve their own path. Before your video I knew Louise Brooks only by name and image.
I can't explain mine and millions of other people's fascination with this actress who made only a handful of films but it is all consuming. When Miss Brooks is on the scene you can only look at her! She was the original " ballsey dame "
I'm impressed impressed impressed. I know now why I always loved this woman. She's a free spirit, her own human being. A lesson in true liberty of choice. I admire her. She touches me in all and every way possible.
Anybody else struck by how . . . Contemporary she looks? She wouldn't look remotely out of place in 2023. I love Marilyn Monroe ~ who doesn't? ~ but even she looks like a beauty from another era. Can't quite put my finger on what I mean. She's fascinating.
@@professorgraemeyorston Thanks so much for saying that Professor - yes, something in her expression! I don't want to say she looks "normal" but she appears so natural and at ease in front of the camera, like someone casually posing for a selfie (I myself actually hate taking selfies!) with an almost bored countenance. Not cynical or world weary but kind of, "Whatever!" It's lovely, whatever it is.
What a woman - beautiful, talented, intelligent and way before her time. So impressed by her insightfulness and awareness of not only other people and their motives but also her own inner workings too, with the bravery to talk about it so openly in a time when women were still encouraged to keep things to themselves. I think I might need to keep a photo of her by my desk too now 😊
Thank you. She deserves a biopic. Her story is incredible. She remains influential to this day, yet so many have no idea that she is the source of the styles, attitudes, and behavior that they adopt. This also helped me personally. I better understand now why my attempts to have a relationship long ago with a “Brooks” like woman was doomed to fail.
Thanks, an excellent account. I came across Louise Brooks as a result of an interest in German cinema. That an American girl from Kansas could have such a central role in some of the most iconic films of the Weimar period was amazing. I love the fact that she had the self respect to walk away from the Hollywood moguls who offered contracts for sex, something present day actresses should follow.
What an interesting documentary about someone I'd vaguely heard about previously. For me, her spirited independence and refusal to sleep her way to the top were her greatest assets. I think in her later years, her mental health problems may have been caused, in part, by abandonment by her previously so called friends, who didn't share her more worldly views about the way life should be lived - on her own terms and not someone elses - that way lays regret and I doubt that she had many of those. Admirable woman, not to mention quite the icon too.
THAT WAS FASCINATING!!!! It made me go back and look at my grandmothers school class photo from 1931 (age 15) and realize Louise Brooks influence because my grandmother along with several other girls in the picture have their hair done exactly like all those glamour shots of Louise Brooks 😮😮I never knew
This was so good. Thank you! She is so fascinating and one of the reasons I think she's captivating because I can see myself in her story. It's also a reminder that, eventually, we all will get old, and the young will then treat us with disrespect.
Very well done. The first bio I've seen about her. Her images captivated me when I first saw them. And after hearing about her life story she captivates me even more.
Timeless beauty. Thank you for sharing her story. Certainly nothing wrong with her voice on talkies! I visit her non-descript grave site at the Holy Sepulchre cemetery every time I visit family in Rochester and leave a rose. Her book is wonderful.
Thank you! I think that Louise Brooks was one of brighter lights of (very) Old Hollywood. I liked Clara Bow too (the "It" girl, "Wings") Clara had an ultimately sad end.
Fantastic work. In 19 minutes you gave a really satisfying bio of someone I always knew of but never her work. And really nice editing! I'm really looking forward to watching her films with Pabst. Thanks so much for this! (I'll keep my finders crossed that you've done a piece on Francis Farmer....)
A fantastic bio. Well done. Only five days ago, I did a Facebook posting about what The Who song “Pictures of Lilly” means to me. It seems that we are both similarly moved by ghostly images on our TV and on our wall. You have your “Lilly”, and I have mine - Edna Purviance. I wonder who Pete Townsend’s “Lilly” was.
I've never heard of her before and was drawn in by her beauty! What a remarkable lady. I very much enjoyed your video and was taken by surprise to learn that she lived in Rochester - for, you see, I not only live in Rochester, NY, but also worked at the Eastman Kodak Company, the very establishment that brought her to Rochester in the first place!
Thank you so much for this video. I'd never heard of Louise Brooks before but, as a big fan of old-school Hollywood, I'm definitely going to look more into her now. The story told at 9:09-9:29 instantly made her an icon in my eyes. What an absolute firecracker of a lady! Has there been a biopic about her? If not, there should be! Or better yet, a musical!
Excellent video. I've always been fascinated by her - a woman ahead of her time a style icon who also knew what she wanted even if it got her into trouble - the definition of a free spirit. Still surprises me that no one has made a movie of her life. It's long overdue.
Thank you for this essential portrait that makes us clamour for more! By chance I found Leacock's interviews on RUclips, which led to me watching Pandora's Box while on holiday in India! What an intelligent, gracious woman
Yes! My grandfather Alfred Savoir directed Louise in a couple of films while they were both still in Hollywood. He said she was not only gorgeous but intelligent and deep, and that she had no business in that business. I suppose she knew that too.
There’s even a picture of them
together on some Hollywood film set (maybe Ernst Lubitsch?)
He urged her to stay in Europe but at the end she wasn’t interested in all that. She was always a writer he said and a very witty conversationalist.
The way the camera captures her depth and charm and wily nature is nonpareil ❤
Thank you for a lovely video !
Thank you for a lovely anecdote.
I note your grandfather was a true renaissance man - law graduate, playwright, magazine editor, aviator and recipient of the Legion d'Honneur. You must be very proud of him.
I see your grandmere once owned a Renoir, which sold at auction for over £12 million four years ago...
What a delightful tribute . To me she’s one of the most beautiful women ever in Hollywood.
I agree.
She was an absolute stunner!
She went insane in Hollywood. I am near her age when she died now and I know Hollywood really well (my family is one of the founding families of the California town back in the 1800s) and we girls were warned by our parents when we were young to avoid Hollywood which my parents considered to be 'Hollow Wood.'
No matter what year you watch her, she always looks like a contemporary woman had time-travelled to a silent movie
I agree, she is timeless.
My thoughts exactly.
She is timeless.
True!
Just look at the seduction scene in "Pandora's Box" with Fritz Kortner.
Her gaze is ultra-modern, a woman in full charge of her sexuality, there is nothing oldfashioned about her.
She could go from stunningly beautiful to extremely adorable with a simple smile. Very magnetic.
Couldn't agree more!
My mother looked like her when she was a teenager. Same hair and facial structure. She also had naturally full lips. My mother was born in 1922.
She was gorgeous, lived by her own rules, burned all her bridges, refused to kiss ass, made no apologies for the life she chose, and I love her for all of it!
She was too modern for the time she was born into.
@professorgraemeyorston
You could say she was ahead of her time ⏲️!!!!!!
So sad about her sad abusive
childhood. I
And worked as an escort by her own choice.
louise brooks : "i don't belong anywhere ... to anyone ... to anything " in a letter from 1964.
@@professorgraemeyorstonyou mean too intelligent for small male mentality. I encountered that too. Born in 1959. Cant take responsibility for for it. Just trailblazed thru it. I thank my predecessors sooooo much. Women have been controlled by small male mentality for centuries. I am sure I would have had a lobotomy had I been born 20 to 30 years earlier. No more manipulation and control the men..
Yay! I love, love men!
She was so intelligent. If you’ve read her film criticism, you’ll know she wasn’t simply recycling anecdotes from her movie hey-day or passing on old gossip. She had a very keen mind, a wicked sense of humour, and a gift for the telling phrase. In some ways she reminds me of the writer Jean Rhys, another woman who experienced childhood sexual abuse, a remote mother, unstable career, exploitative relationships, impulsive and self-defeating behaviour patterns, alcoholism, grey-area escort work, and decades of poverty and neglect -only to re-emerge from literary obscurity with her late novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ as a great, great author. Oh, and they even looked alike! (At least in their flapper finery and bobbed hairstyle).
I agree.
all theater children are sexually abused.
I empathize with her struggles. She was incredibly resilient and courageous. Childhood trauma, including neglect, leaves one with great emotional pain. I’m glad she made peace with her mom 😊
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" - Henri Langlois. I'm different from others because I fell in love with her back in 1980s in Richard Leacock's documentary that you shared in a clip. She was an old woman with bad teeth, anthric hands and a tattered bathrobe, but she was mesmerizing with her voice and facial and hand gestures. I saw "Pandora's Box" later and it was incredible. The camera really captured something special in her. I have only seen three female silent stars that had that quality: Louise, Marion Davies and Clara Bow.
I agree there was something very special.
Something special,,she wasn't born female. That was in a news article years ago.
It's hard not to love her when presented like this.
Thank you.
Child abuse is so insidiously evil. Poor Louise and all the other malleable children that depraved man damaged.
I wonder how her life would have turned out, if she had not been subjected to that.
What does it say about her own mother, her response disgusts me
Right? I can't imagine having this attitude to a dependent creature or person. I think she was either narcissistic or at least extremely selfish. Even though I get her not wanting to be just about kids, but there are ways to accomplish that without being callous. This was callous disregard, plus the accusation of her then 9 year old daughter, I think she was a textbook narcissist @xxLornyTunesxx
Women can be depraved too..but you won’t admit that, would you..
A wonderful video! I've always thought Louise Brooks was terribly underappreciated.
Thank you, I agree.
Terribly underappreciated? The world was her oyster back in the day. And now even today you got videos like this on her, praising her.
True !!!!!🤗🇬🇧
@@professorgraemeyorston As a footnote. OMD made the song Pandora's Box in the 1990s and showed clips from the film throughout the music video. If you haven't seen it then it's worth watching even if it's just for the song
I have a tinted framed photo of her. I swear those smouldering peepers follow you around the room. I have always found her timeless, magnetic and gutsy. Great actress with so much presence, appeal and style. A real rebel spirit and pioneer in the creative arts. Great presentation, thankyou.
She is absolutely stunning!
There is something haunting about her.
Certainly the most photogenic young woman ever.
Agree!
Absolutely agree she did her own thing , and to me she still remained beautiful in her later years.
What a MARVELOUS tribute!!! She was absolutely iconic with a timeless beauty! I admire her brave spirit to always adapt & bounce back. She definitely had conviction!
Well said!
@professorgraemeyorston , Hello, HELLO there. I will definitely watch more of your wonderful documentaries. I am very much intrigued! I think that we can actually all learn from these talented individuals, they are an INSPIRATION to all of us. Their lives where not in vain & their legacy will live on!
Louise Brooks was both a legend and an icon. That’s very impressive given how long her acting career even lasted. She experienced the extreme highs and very lows that came with her way of conducting her life. She was very truthful when she wrote and talked about her Hollywood years. She sugar coated nothing which was a rarity in that time. Most actors played the role the studio forced themselves into no matter how old got. Like Gloria Swanson was *always* the forever movie star until she died. Even Joan Crawford once remarked people don’t want to see the girl next door but Joan Crawford the Movie Star. Louise Brooks did not play the Hollywood game like she was expected. She had a natural rebelliousness which led to her being both a head of her time but also a legendary icon of the late 20’s. No other actress of the time period epitomized the roaring twenties like Louise Brooks. She is the Roaring Twenties! 🎥🎬📽️🎞️
I agree!
What's amazing about her in that. During the Roaring Twenties she was like in her late teens, and she was already well-known.
The girls that are the same age as she was then couldn't hang with her intellectually or in any other way.
And I'm talkin about the chuckleheads that are out now.
Her and Tallulah Bankhead were sorta like.🙂
I fell in love with Louise Brooks at age 15 her look is iconic and perfect. I am glad she passed knowing what a star she is
There is something unique about her.
She was one of my closest friends. I saw her weekly. She was funny and brilliant
7 N Goodman St Apt 307 I'm from Rochester. So sad that she was in that little apartment all by herself. I hope that during her final days she had company. Most beautiful woman ever.
She was a great beauty who had a look that transcends the styles that identify so many actresses as belonging to the 1920s. But I think it was her personality that also played a large part of her beauty, and I suspect she was far more interesting that she considered herself as being. Were she alive today and in Hollywood, she'd most likely be lighting up the movie screens. I'm so glad that there were people still interested enough in the 1950s to make it possible for the world to rediscover her, and for her to record at least parts of her life story and come to some place of peacefulness in her life.
Transcendent...the perfect word for her!
I've loved her since I was 16 in 1983. She was simultaneously the cutest actress of all time, and one of the most intelligent, fiercely independent and determined women in Hollywood at that time, a time that was especially hard for women - it's bad enough now. That was an amazing time, but there is so much that we now take for granted that just didn't exist then. Louise Brooks really shone a light on so much of what made it so hard for women, and she inspired so many to fight for what they deserve.
She is an inspiration.
In my 20`s in the 80`s I knew nothing of Louse at all .
One year a news paper gave a free calendar with pictures of remastered black/white 1920/30`s stars ... Bogart , Cagney ,Bergman etc
amongst these was a a portrait of Louise ..... and I fell for her and I have never stopped being fond of her .
Love you Lulu ❤💋
It's never too late for a bit of romance!
She was so ahead of her time.
Utterly chic and stylish. Again a victim of the nasty double standards of her time.
She was indeed.
What an awesome bio! And what a woman! To quote Frank Sinatra. She did it her way! One of the few actresses who was a strong woman who knew what she wanted and went after it without compromising herself like others to further her career! I gravitate towards people like her! She accepted her fate without feeling sorry for herself without blaming others for her downfall!
Daring sexy brave. She lived her life how she wanted to live. An original indeed🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
She was absolutely gorgeous who lived life as she wanted and wouldn't be controlled by the Studios A Free Spirit before the word was coined
What an icon ❤ her work will educate and inspire. RIP Lulu x
I agree I think her resilience is admirable.
She was indeed a well read woman, and also a transcendent beauty who never played by anyone's rules but her own, thanks for this, really enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching.
Loved Louise brooks she really was a trailblazer...May she be at peace .
She was indeed.
Thank you, so many tragic stories about Hollywood, at least she never died young.
Maybe it was because she got out.
Kudos to you for telling this story so well. Her resilience is inspiring, and an example to all women who yearn to carve their own path.
Before your video I knew Louise Brooks only by name and image.
Thank you.
I can't explain mine and millions of other people's fascination with this actress who made only a handful of films but it is all consuming. When Miss Brooks is on the scene you can only look at her! She was the original " ballsey dame "
I agree.
Loved the 1920s-30s. Very fascinating era where she exists.
It was a time of huge change.
She didn't take part in the casting couch intimidation. She was quite literally Stunning.
She had a lot of relationships, but always on her terms.
Fascinating. Thank you for this wonderful presentation
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm impressed impressed impressed. I know now why I always loved this woman. She's a free spirit, her own human being. A lesson in true liberty of choice. I admire her. She touches me in all and every way possible.
Well said.
Anybody else struck by how . . . Contemporary she looks? She wouldn't look remotely out of place in 2023. I love Marilyn Monroe ~ who doesn't? ~ but even she looks like a beauty from another era. Can't quite put my finger on what I mean. She's fascinating.
I agree, is it something in her expression?
@@professorgraemeyorston Thanks so much for saying that Professor - yes, something in her expression! I don't want to say she looks "normal" but she appears so natural and at ease in front of the camera, like someone casually posing for a selfie (I myself actually hate taking selfies!) with an almost bored countenance. Not cynical or world weary but kind of, "Whatever!" It's lovely, whatever it is.
Timeless beauty.
What a beautiful woman❤
She was indeed.
I have never known of Louise Brooks. A woman ahead of her time! She lived her life on her own terms. Impressive lady and so is your video!
Well said!
Wow, what a fascinating figure. Thank you for the research and presenting this.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Such a lovely exploration of a talented, controversial woman ahead of her time. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Very well done documentary on Ms. Brooks. She’ll always be a trailblazer in my book 🥰
Thank you, mine too.
Just reading her biography. Fascinating
Wonderful!
Yes, she was beautiful and a modern face and hairstyle was perfect for her!
I agree.
What a woman - beautiful, talented, intelligent and way before her time. So impressed by her insightfulness and awareness of not only other people and their motives but also her own inner workings too, with the bravery to talk about it so openly in a time when women were still encouraged to keep things to themselves. I think I might need to keep a photo of her by my desk too now 😊
She was indeed!
Thank you. She deserves a biopic. Her story is incredible. She remains influential to this day, yet so many have no idea that she is the source of the styles, attitudes, and behavior that they adopt.
This also helped me personally. I better understand now why my attempts to have a relationship long ago with a “Brooks” like woman was doomed to fail.
I agree, she would make a great subject for a biopic.
Thanks, an excellent account. I came across Louise Brooks as a result of an interest in German cinema. That an American girl from Kansas could have such a central role in some of the most iconic films of the Weimar period was amazing. I love the fact that she had the self respect to walk away from the Hollywood moguls who offered contracts for sex, something present day actresses should follow.
I agree!
This was amazing. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Outstanding doc of an astonishingly beautiful woman and brilliant actress.
That she was!
louise brooks : "i don't belong anywhere ... to anyone ... to anything " (1964)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark did a wonderful tribute to her in their song Pandora's Box fyi.
Great song.
She is stunning. I really enjoyed it Prof. Yorston.
Thank you, I agree!
A splendid presentation!! Such a beauteous icon of film history.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for introducing me to this interesting person, I only knew the name Louise Brooks but nothing else, her writing sounds like a lot of fun.
She was a real character!
Her book is fascinating!
I really enjoyed this. I’ve heard of her, but didn’t know anything about her. A woman ahead of her time.
Thank you.
I learned of Louise from an Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark song "Pandora's Box" - thanks for this.
Great song.
Thank you for this episode on resilience. It is a quality we could all cultivate within ourselves.
I agree, the world could do with a little more resilience these days!
What an interesting documentary about someone I'd vaguely heard about previously. For me, her spirited independence and refusal to sleep her way to the top were her greatest assets.
I think in her later years, her mental health problems may have been caused, in part, by abandonment by her previously so called friends, who didn't share her more worldly views about the way life should be lived - on her own terms and not someone elses - that way lays regret and I doubt that she had many of those. Admirable woman, not to mention quite the icon too.
Thank you.
THAT WAS FASCINATING!!!! It made me go back and look at my grandmothers school class photo from 1931 (age 15) and realize Louise Brooks influence because my grandmother along with several other girls in the picture have their hair done exactly like all those glamour shots of Louise Brooks 😮😮I never knew
Her influence was far reaching indeed.
Since I have learned about Louise Brooks I feel touched by an angel. B. Paris wrote a delightful biography on her well worth a read.
It is a great biography.
Louise Brooks is so underrated, I don't know where to start.
I agree.
Great telling of her Life ,kept my interest . She reminded me of Collen Moore ,who influenced whom .
Interesting question - I know Louise had bobbed hair from childhood, but she didn't keep hers, whereas Colleen did.
This was so good. Thank you! She is so fascinating and one of the reasons I think she's captivating because I can see myself in her story. It's also a reminder that, eventually, we all will get old, and the young will then treat us with disrespect.
Very true.
Such a wonderful, well-made video with plenty of intriguing photos, video footage, and a voice over playing the part of Louise! Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That she resisted the "casting couch" makes her a Hollywood legend alone.
Well said!
Interesting video. She is a top actress of classic cinema, but at the same time she had a modern look.
I also had an image of Louise Brooks in my rooms at college. I still have it framed in the powder room!
Glad I wasn't the only one!
Very well done. The first bio I've seen about her. Her images captivated me when I first saw them. And after hearing about her life story she captivates me even more.
Thank you - the films are well worth a watch!
You tell a story so wonderfully Professor. 💕
Thank you.
Very Good Show, Thank You.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Timeless beauty. Thank you for sharing her story. Certainly nothing wrong with her voice on talkies! I visit her non-descript grave site at the Holy Sepulchre cemetery every time I visit family in Rochester and leave a rose. Her book is wonderful.
It's nice that someone is still giving her roses.
She was the most beautiful actress ever and so intelligent.
Interesting early childhood information. Makes everything much more logical. Thanks
Thank you.
Thank you!
I think that Louise Brooks was one of brighter lights of (very) Old Hollywood.
I liked Clara Bow too (the "It" girl, "Wings") Clara had an ultimately sad end.
Glad you enjoyed it - yes Clara Bow is another potential subject for my channel.
This was a brilliant insight into her life. Clearly done with genuine respect. Thank you for this video.
My pleasure, thank you.
Fantastic work. In 19 minutes you gave a really satisfying bio of someone I always knew of but never her work. And really nice editing! I'm really looking forward to watching her films with Pabst. Thanks so much for this! (I'll keep my finders crossed that you've done a piece on Francis Farmer....)
Thank you, I haven't done one yet, but she's on the list.
She will always be an icon to me!
Me too!
Can't believe I've only just come across this channel. Wonderful subject. Your presentation is outstanding. Thank you
Thank you.
Wow she amazing she was! How sad for her. I think I understand her being abused myself. God bless her heart.
Both my grandmothers were born in 1906 , I love their old photos & the styles of the 20s.
It was a glamorous time.
Beauty and brains and a healthy dose of common sense. Truly a modern woman. It's to her credit that she brought out mental issues.
She was indeed - I would have loved to have met her.
A fascinating, well researched, and sympathetic portrayal! Thank you!
Thank you.
A fantastic bio. Well done. Only five days ago, I did a Facebook posting about what The Who song “Pictures of Lilly” means to me. It seems that we are both similarly moved by ghostly images on our TV and on our wall. You have your “Lilly”, and I have mine - Edna Purviance. I wonder who Pete Townsend’s “Lilly” was.
Thank you.
I've never heard of her before and was drawn in by her beauty! What a remarkable lady. I very much enjoyed your video and was taken by surprise to learn that she lived in Rochester - for, you see, I not only live in Rochester, NY, but also worked at the Eastman Kodak Company, the very establishment that brought her to Rochester in the first place!
Wonderful, it's a small world.
Thank you so much for this video. I'd never heard of Louise Brooks before but, as a big fan of old-school Hollywood, I'm definitely going to look more into her now. The story told at 9:09-9:29 instantly made her an icon in my eyes. What an absolute firecracker of a lady! Has there been a biopic about her? If not, there should be! Or better yet, a musical!
Glad you enjoyed it! I agree her life would make a great biopic.
I totally get her.❤ Thanks
Thank you.
Excellent video. I've always been fascinated by her - a woman ahead of her time a style icon who also knew what she wanted even if it got her into trouble - the definition of a free spirit.
Still surprises me that no one has made a movie of her life. It's long overdue.
I agree - I guess it would be hard to find someone to adequately capture her look.
@@professorgraemeyorston Have always thought British actresses Louise Brown and Carey Mulligan could be contenders.
@@professorgraemeyorstonI can’t think of a current actress that even comes close. The film would be a disappointment.
She was so beautiful and there was something about her eyes. You can see where she gets her looks as both ofher parents were gorgeous!
Those eyes!
I had never heard of Louise Brooks very good narrative thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for this essential portrait that makes us clamour for more! By chance I found Leacock's interviews on RUclips, which led to me watching Pandora's Box while on holiday in India! What an intelligent, gracious woman
Glad it inspired you to find out more.
Thanks so much. This was fascinating. I’ve been a Louise fan for decades.
Thank you, me too!
Thanks for this Graeme, i knew louise from the many pics of her but never actually knew her name. She was a fascinating lady.
My pleasure.
❤a wonderful video essay on Louise.
Thank you.
The quality of your mini-documentaries is superb. Please do a Barbara Payton video....!!
Thanks, I'll add her to the list!
What a Woman!!
She was indeed.
Really really special! ❤ And she said NO.
She was a strong woman.
First time i have ever heard of her. I think i love her.
Join the club!
Very interesting. Never actually heard of her before but definitely feel a kindred spirit. Thank you for this enlightening piece.
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Glad you enjoyed it
She was an INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL LADY 🤩
She was indeed.