Louise Brooks
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract wit...
Known For
Hollywood
Self
Pandora's Box
Lulu
Diary of a Lost Girl
Thymian Henning
When You're in Love
Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Canary Murder Case
The Canary
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
Herself (archive footage)
Filmography
Away with Words
2026
as Louise Brooks
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
1998
as Herself (archive footage)
Mysteries and Scandals
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
1001 Films
1989
as (archival)
Louise Brooks
1986
as Herself (Archival Footage)
Lulu in Berlin
1984
as Self
Hollywood
1980
as Self
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1976
as Self - Interviewee
Overland Stage Raiders
1938
as Beth Hoyt
When You're in Love
1937
as Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
Empty Saddles
1936
as Boots Boone
It Pays to Advertise
1931
as Thelma Temple
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
1931
as Betty Grey
God's Gift to Women
1931
as Florine
Miss Europe
1930
as Lucienne
Pandora's Box
1929
as Lulu
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
as Thymian Henning
The Canary Murder Case
1929
as The Canary
Beggars of Life
1928
as The Girl (Nancy)
A Girl in Every Port
1928
as Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
Rolled Stockings
1927
as Carol Fleming
Now We're in the Air
1927
as Griselle and Grisette
The City Gone Wild
1927
as Snuggles Joy
Evening Clothes
1927
as Fox Trot
The Show Off
1926
as Clara
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
1926
as Janie Walsh
It's the Old Army Game
1926
as Mildred Marshall
The American Venus
1926
as Miss Bayport
A Social Celebrity
1926
as Kitty Laverne
Just Another Blonde
1926
as Diana O'Sullivan
The Street of Forgotten Men
1925
as A Moll