Louise Brooks and company collects pages on the LBS website which detail Brooks’ relationships and encounters with famous and not so famous individuals from throughout her life and career. The people they detail are covered to a greater or lesser degree in the 1989 biography of Louise Brooks by Barry Paris, which is the single best source of information on the actress. However, based on recent research as well as newly found information, these pages go beyond what has been previously known about the actress. Together, they form series of sketches toward a life of Louise Brooks.
Another page on the Louise Brooks Society website, Biographical Bits and Pieces, serves as a directory to not dissimilar pages which detail the stories behind various topics in Brooks’ life, from her high school yearbook to a visit to a German palm reader to an in depth look at Brooks’ unpublished notebooks. As time allows, I plan on adding more pages in the future. Be sure and check back. And let me know what you think. If there is a topic you would like covered, let me know. I would enjoy hearing from you. Send your suggestions, comments or questions to the LBS via its CONTACT page.
Thomas Gladysz
Director, Louise Brooks Society
LOUISE BROOKS & CO.
Louise Brooks and Charlie Chaplin: Their “two happy summer months”
— the story of their 1925 affair, with new details
Louise Brooks and Bruz Fletcher
— the dancing actress and the gay singer-songwriter
Louise Brooks and George Gershwin (forthcoming)
— an account of their friendship, with new details
Louise Brooks and Martha Graham (forthcoming)
— an account of their working together
Louise Brooks and Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy (forthcoming)
— the acclaimed English author visits the film star….
Louise Brooks and Henri Langlois
— the American silent star and the French film preservationist
Louise Brooks and George Lighton
— the tragic story of a fan
Louise Brooks and Gloria Swanson (forthcoming)
— an account of admiration and interaction
Louise Brooks and the Surrealists
— their vortex, an account
Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino: Behind the Black Velvet Curtain
— the flapper & the sheik, including an account of the time Brooks saw Valentino just a few weeks before his death
Louise Brooks and George Young
— the Canadian swimming star known as the “Catalina Kid” is made to kiss an actress
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Louise Brooks Biographical Encounters
— brief excerpts from biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs