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.'
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.
@@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
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.
"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 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 😊
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).
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 a good question not to be answered. What does SA do to anyone, let alone a child of under ten years of age? Who would I have been and what would my life have looked like? I found a possible explanation for my behaviour in later years in the book Hotel New Hampshire. Susie the bear explains why Franny writes letters to Chipper Dove: so long as she pretends to having a "normal" relationship with Chipper, he is no r*pist. She does not want to deal with it, because she's afraid, if she did, he might "R" her again. That makes sense to me.
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 ❤💋
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.
I adore Louise Brooks, from her acting, hair her ways. I only wish she would have done talkies…..is there a museum about her anywhere? I’ve seen all her interviews over and over again, all her silent movies, and yes even her last one with John Wayne. When I was a teenager some of my friends and I, would call her in seances. I had a scrap book with a lot of her photographs, pictures….She was very unique! Thank you for the documentary.
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.🙂
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
I've watched quite a few of Professor Yorston's video's tonight....Louise Brookes was incredibly beautiful...living in an age when it was okay to have short hairstyles....it just reminded me of a beauty pageant in France where the winner had a short hairstyle and the media storm was unbelievable! Would really like Professor Yorston to make a video about another actress from the 1920s....Mary Miles Minter whose life story was tragic due to her mother's scheming!
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.
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.
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 😊
People don't fall in love with the beautiful face of a person , but with the attractive character that that face reveals . Self-confidence is the highest beauty ideal .
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!
That was truly an interesting portrait of a strong, fascinating lady’s life. I didn’t know anything about her before. Thank you Professor Yorston. Hilsen fra Norge.
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 "
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.
I like your succinct and non-sensational style. This is another excellent video in a long line of them. I already have 10 others in my Favorites folder.
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....)
Very interesting to learn more about Ms. Brooks as I knew little about her, just her historical rank as a US silent screen star. The last image of her on this video reminded me of Ali McGraw, a popular actress in the 1960's and 1970's.
I will now admit….. I have been binge watching your channel since I discovered it just a couple of days ago. Brilliant telling of many compelling stories. Thank you!
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.
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.'
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 could go from stunningly beautiful to extremely adorable with a simple smile. Very magnetic.
Couldn't agree more!
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
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.
"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.
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 😊
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.
She is absolutely stunning!
There is something haunting about her.
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 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!
It's hard not to love her when presented like this.
Thank you.
Absolutely agree she did her own thing , and to me she still remained beautiful in her later years.
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!
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.
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!
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..
@@professorgraemeyorston a good question not to be answered. What does SA do to anyone, let alone a child of under ten years of age?
Who would I have been and what would my life have looked like?
I found a possible explanation for my behaviour in later years in the book Hotel New Hampshire.
Susie the bear explains why Franny writes letters to Chipper Dove: so long as she pretends to having a "normal" relationship with Chipper, he is no r*pist. She does not want to deal with it, because she's afraid, if she did, he might "R" her again.
That makes sense to me.
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.
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 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.
@@motoknivesandgunsbyjt yes I was there as was my brother Bill. As for her being alone that was her choice. She refused to leave.
What a beautiful woman❤
She was indeed.
There seems to be a revived interest in Louise & it's about time
I hope so, she is not that well known.
Fascinating. Thank you for this wonderful presentation
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
I adore Louise Brooks, from her acting, hair her ways. I only wish she would have done talkies…..is there a museum about her anywhere? I’ve seen all her interviews over and over again, all her silent movies, and yes even her last one with John Wayne. When I was a teenager some of my friends and I, would call her in seances. I had a scrap book with a lot of her photographs, pictures….She was very unique! Thank you for the documentary.
You're obviously a real fan of LB, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Again a great insight into someone i did not even know existed … 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.
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.🙂
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.
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.
Thank you, so many tragic stories about Hollywood, at least she never died young.
Maybe it was because she got out.
Loved Louise brooks she really was a trailblazer...May she be at peace .
She was indeed.
Outstanding doc of an astonishingly beautiful woman and brilliant actress.
That she was!
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!
Such a lovely exploration of a talented, controversial woman ahead of her time. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it.
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.
Just reading her biography. Fascinating
Wonderful!
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!
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.
Wow, what a fascinating figure. Thank you for the research and presenting this.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Loved the 1920s-30s. Very fascinating era where she exists.
It was a time of huge change.
She is stunning. I really enjoyed it Prof. Yorston.
Thank you, I agree!
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.
Proud she is part of our German film history. Unsere Lulu. ❤
It is a great history - I love Weimar cinema.
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.
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!
❤a wonderful video essay on Louise.
Thank you.
I've watched quite a few of Professor Yorston's video's tonight....Louise Brookes was incredibly beautiful...living in an age when it was okay to have short hairstyles....it just reminded me of a beauty pageant in France where the winner had a short hairstyle and the media storm was unbelievable! Would really like Professor Yorston to make a video about another actress from the 1920s....Mary Miles Minter whose life story was tragic due to her mother's scheming!
I'll look into her.
Interesting early childhood information. Makes everything much more logical. Thanks
Thank you.
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 a brilliant insight into her life. Clearly done with genuine respect. Thank you for this video.
My pleasure, thank you.
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!
This was amazing. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well done documentary on Ms. Brooks. She’ll always be a trailblazer in my book 🥰
Thank you, mine too.
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 splendid presentation!! Such a beauteous icon of film history.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
I had never heard of Louise Brooks very good narrative thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
I totally get her.❤ Thanks
Thank you.
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.
Awesome beauty , her story so interesting ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you.
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.
She is amazing!
First time i have ever heard of her. I think i love her.
Join the club!
I really enjoyed this. I’ve heard of her, but didn’t know anything about her. A woman ahead of her time.
Thank you.
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!
Very Good Show, Thank You.
Glad you enjoyed it
Brooksie was so brilliant
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!
People don't fall in love with the beautiful face of a person , but with the attractive character that that face reveals . Self-confidence is the highest beauty ideal .
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.
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
Beautiful presentation !
That was truly an interesting portrait of a strong, fascinating lady’s life. I didn’t know anything about her before. Thank you Professor Yorston. Hilsen fra Norge.
She will always be an icon to me!
Me too!
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.
What a Woman!!
She was indeed.
I learned of Louise from an Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark song "Pandora's Box" - thanks for this.
Great song.
i dont belong anywhere, to anyone or anything...explains her perfectly
Very true.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark did a wonderful tribute to her in their song Pandora's Box fyi.
Great song.
Great! I love Louise...maybe a video on Clara Bow would be a good companion piece..
Thank you, I agree, she's on the list. Similar in some ways, but very different in others.
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!
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!
I like your succinct and non-sensational style. This is another excellent video in a long line of them. I already have 10 others in my Favorites folder.
Awesome, 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.
You tell a story so wonderfully Professor. 💕
Thank you.
Very interesting to learn more about Ms. Brooks as I knew little about her, just her historical rank as a US silent screen star. The last image of her on this video reminded me of Ali McGraw, a popular actress in the 1960's and 1970's.
Louise Brooks is so underrated, I don't know where to start.
I agree.
Thanks so much. This was fascinating. I’ve been a Louise fan for decades.
Thank you, me too!
I will now admit….. I have been binge watching your channel since I discovered it just a couple of days ago. Brilliant telling of many compelling stories. Thank you!
Really really special! ❤ And she said NO.
She was a strong woman.
wonderful
Thank you.
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.
Well and tastefully done.
How sad...What an amazing gal.
She was indeed!
New subie here, I really appreciate the way you show the life facts of these people and analyze them. Thank you very much.
Thanks for subbing!
Can't believe I've only just come across this channel. Wonderful subject. Your presentation is outstanding. Thank you
Thank you.
Yes, she was beautiful and a modern face and hairstyle was perfect for her!
I agree.