Louise Brooks
Birthday: 14 November 1906, Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Birth Name: Mary Louise Brooks
Height: 157 cm
Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Danc ...Show More
[on Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: He made no att Show more
[on Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: He made no attempt to direct this picture at all. He just sat silently all through the three days of filming in his director's chair like a dead man. He had been very nice and sweetly dead ever since the scandal that ruined his career. But it was such an amazing thing for me to come in to make this broken down picture, and to find my director 'William Goodrich' was in fact the great Roscoe Arbuckle. Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful. Hide
[on W.C. Fields] He was an isolated person. As a young man, he stretched out his hand to Beauty and Show more
[on W.C. Fields] He was an isolated person. As a young man, he stretched out his hand to Beauty and Love and they thrust it away. Gradually he reduced reality to exclude all but his work, filling the gaps with alcohol. He was also a solitary person. Years of traveling alone around the world with his juggling act taught him the value of solitude and the release it gave his mind. Hide
[on Charles Chaplin]: I never heard him say a snide thing about anyone. He lived totally without fea Show more
[on Charles Chaplin]: I never heard him say a snide thing about anyone. He lived totally without fear. Hide
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love - after the first curious raptures - is only another petu Show more
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love - after the first curious raptures - is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call. Hide
[on shooting Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)] Kortner [co-star Fritz Kortner] hated me. After eac Show more
[on shooting Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)] Kortner [co-star Fritz Kortner] hated me. After each scene with me, he would pound off the set and go to his dressing room. [Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst] himself, wearing his most private smile, would go there to coax him back for the next scene... One sequence gave Kortner an opportunity to shake me with such violence that he left ten black-and-blue fingerprints on my arms. Hide
[on Margaret Sullavan] Do you know my favorite actress? She was very special in her appearance, her Show more
[on Margaret Sullavan] Do you know my favorite actress? She was very special in her appearance, her voice was exquisite and far away, almost like an echo. She was an excellent actress, completely unique. This wonderful voice of hers -- strange, fey, mysterious -- like a voice singing in the snow. Hide
I like Bette Davis. I think she's a real actor, don't you? I never liked Joan Crawford at all. Never Show more
I like Bette Davis. I think she's a real actor, don't you? I never liked Joan Crawford at all. Never. I hate fakes. She was an awful fake. A washerwoman's daughter. I'm a terrible snob, you know. Hide
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts... I was wearing Show more
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts... I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs. Hide
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the wh Show more
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. Hide
The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movemen Show more
The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. Hide
I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Show more
I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act. Hide
[In a summer 1936 interview] I am delighted with my role in Empty Saddles (1936). It gives me an opp Show more
[In a summer 1936 interview] I am delighted with my role in Empty Saddles (1936). It gives me an opportunity to do something, not just stand around and look pretty. I wouldn't trade it for all the other roles I ever had because I am really acting now, not just being an ornament, and I feel that, a last, I am on the road toward getting some place in pictures. Hide
[on actress Clara Bow] She wasn't acceptable socially. Eddie Sutherland, my husband, gave absolutely Show more
[on actress Clara Bow] She wasn't acceptable socially. Eddie Sutherland, my husband, gave absolutely the best parties in Hollywood. So I asked him one day to invite Clara Bow and he said, "Oh, good heavens, no! We can't have her. We don't know what she'd do. She's from Brooklyn.". Hide
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horro Show more
I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart. Hide
Louise Brooks's FILMOGRAPHY
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