Welcome to the LOUISE BROOKS SOCIETY™, a pioneering fan site and online archive dedicated to the life & times of the silent film star Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985). As a Jazz Age celebrity, the actress is best known for her bobbed hair as well as for her legendary role as Lulu in the 1929 silent movie, Pandora’s Box. Launched online in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society (or LBS) celebrates this multifaceted personality who was not only an acclaimed actress, but also a Denishawn dancer, Ziegfeld Follies showgirl, and later the bestselling author of Lulu in Hollywood. Once nearly forgotten, Brooks has emerged from obscurity to become a 20th century icon, and 21st century muse. At 300 pages and growing, this site has it all.
The mission of the LBS is to honor the actress by stimulating interest in her life, movies and legacy…. The filmography found here is the most detailed ever compiled on Brooks (surpassing both IMDb & AFI). The are also articles, image galleries, a biography, chronology, slide-shows, videos, trivia, links, ephemera and more. This information rich website is just one of the many things we do — along with research, writing articles, curating exhibits, sponsoring events, and most importantly, helping with the preservation of Brooks’ films. The LBS inspired the Emmy nominated documentary on the actress, and is included in the Library of Congress’ Motion Picture Archive. The LBS keeps a long-running BLOG (since 2002), helped bring both Lulu in Hollywood and the definitive biography of Brooks by Barry Paris back into print, and, it has PUBLISHED five books with more in the works! The LBS is an educational site as well as a home to a virtual fan club of like-minded individuals. More about the LBS, including its mission statement and history, can be found on its ABOUT page. The Louise Brooks Society™ is proud to be a retrosite where accuracy and authenticity still matter. As such, the LBS is a clickbait, colorized, and A.I. free zone. Explore the LBS and all that it has to offer. And please consider joining in and / or supporting its ongoing efforts! rel=”me” href=”https://sfba.social/@LouiseBrooksSociety”>Mastodon</a>
Thomas Gladysz
Director, Louise Brooks Society
=== NEW RELEASE ===
♦ ♦ Focus on Louise Brooks brings together four of Louise Brooks once “lost” films, including her screen debut and her first credited role, for the first time on home video. This Blu-ray disc presents material rarely seen in nearly 100 years.
=== BIOGRAPHY ===
♦ ♦ Explore the LIFE & TIMES tab to visit pages detailing the remarkable story of Louise Brooks. There’s a biography and chronology, articles, essays and excerpts, recommended reading, quotations, links, and lots more.
=== FILMS ===
♦ ♦ The LBS filmography is the most detailed ever compiled on just about any actor, surpassing the AFI and IMDb for credits, bit players, alternative titles, shooting locations, reviews and more. Exclusively on the LBS.
=== ARCHIVE ===
♦ ♦ The LBS archive contains a treasure trove of rare material including vintage books, magazines, postcards, advertisements and ephemera as well as photoplay editions, sheet music, 78 rpm discs & much, much more.
=== FEATURED PAGE ===
♦ ♦ “Writings of Louise Brooks” details the actress’ published, unpublished and uncollected work, including her little known self-published booklet on dance, her articles on film, notebooks, letters, and bestselling memoir, Lulu in Hollywood.
=== EXPLORE / WHAT’S NEW ===
♦ ♦ At nearly 300 pages, the LBS is one of the largest and most comprehensive websites devoted to any film star — silent or sound. There is a lot to look at and much to explore. Visit the WHAT’S NEW page for the latest additions and updates.
=== PUBLICATIONS ===
♦ ♦ The Louise Brooks Society has published five books to date, with three more in the works. Each is the result of considerable research, and each features new information and dozens of rare images. Find out more, and order your copy today!
=== CHRONOLOGY ===
♦ ♦ Where was she? What was she doing? Who did she know? A detailed look at the actress’ daily life. Praised by the Irish Times as “extraordinary” and exclusive to the Louise Brooks Society website.
=== ESSENTIAL READING ===
♦ ♦ From Portrait of an Anti-star to the Barry Paris biography to Peter Cowie’s pictorial to Jan Wahl’s Dear Stinkpot, the “Louise Brooks Bookshelf” is an opinionated guide to the best & worst books about the actress and her films.
=== COVER GIRL ===
♦ ♦ “Louise Brooks Cover Girl” is a thrilling new section which brings together dozens of vintage magazine covers from all around the world — from France and Germany to Brazil, Japan, Italy, Poland and beyond.
=== HOMAGE ===
♦ ♦ Movies, music, literature & comics have all paid homage to Brooks – a 20th century icon & 21st century muse. Here is one example, White Lotus and Ponies actress Haley Lu Richardson as Louise Brooks in The Chaperone.
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- The Street of Forgotten Men, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1925
by Louise Brooks Society on August 24, 2026The Street of Forgotten Men, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1925. The film underworld romance set among fake beggars and their “cripple factory” in the slums of the Bowery in New York City. The film is based on an O. Henryesque short story by George Kibbe Turner which appeared in Liberty magazine on February 14, 1925, just two months before the film went into production. The film is notable as the first in which Louise Brooks had a role, that of a moll (companion to […]
- A newly uncovered article about Louise Brooks - from war-torn Eastern Europe
by Louise Brooks Society on August 22, 2026I recently came across a rather remarkable article about Louise Brooks. It's remarkable in that it is a virtual "love letter" to the actress from a time when she was pretty much forgotten... 1943. (That's four years after Brooks' last film was released.) What's also remarkable about this article is that it appeared in a Romanian newspaper in the midst of the second World War. At the time, Romania was allied with Nazi Germany, whose cultural ministry had previously banned the film at the center […]
- Prix de beauté, starring Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1930
by Louise Brooks Society on August 20, 2026Prix de beauté, with Louise Brooks, was released on this day in 1930. In her last starring role and last European film, Louise Brooks plays a typist stuck in a dull job who wins a beauty contest. Like Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl, Prix de beauté is a tragedy in which misfortune befalls the character played by Brooks. In a sense, the film can be seen as the third in a European trilogy starring the actress. The film is notable for being the first sound film to feature Brooks, […]
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