#louise brooks
Louise Brooks
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 - August 8, 1985)
Photo: Louise Brooks, Prix de Beauté (Sofar Film, 1930), by James Abbe
This photo has the very interesting history of belonging to Brooks. On the verso is a stamp from the James Card Collection. Next to that in Brook’s own hand is a note saying, “How this son of a bitch robbed me of most of my pictures.” Also her name and address is written in her hand. Brooks and Card had a long running affair.
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Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks in a colorized publicity photo for “The Canary Murder Case”, 1929. Costume design by Travis Banton (uncredited).
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While the Louise Brooks lesbian movie of choice is and ever shall be Pandora’s Box,Beggars of Life is no slouch in the queer department. It involves her dressing as a boy in order to avoid the police after killing a man in self-defense. Basically it’s a movie in which she looks the way she does in the above photo for around 80% of her screen time. You know, if that’s something you’re into.
women in history | archetypes | vamps
→ female vampires were considered to be seductresses who sucked the blood dry from males. this terrified a male dominated hollywood at the time because vamps challenged the social norms. they were overly sexual and aggressive (or so explained by columnists at the time). this archetype would later morph into title of femme fatale.
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Silent ladies
