Louise Brooks The Persistent Star

Author : Thomas Gladysz
Publisher : Pandorasbox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692151020
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star written by Thomas Gladysz and published by Pandorasbox Press. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star brings together 15 years work by Thomas Gladysz, the Director of the Louise Brooks Society. Gathered here are a selection of his articles, essays, and blogs about the silent film star. The actress' best known films--Beggars of Life, Pandora's Box, and Diary of a Lost Girl--are discussed, as are many other little known aspects of Brooks' legendary career. These pieces range from the local ("Louise Brooks, at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and 16th Street") to the worldly ("Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan"), from the provocative ("A Girl in Every Port The Birth of Lulu?") to the poignant ("Homage to George W. Lighton of Kentucky, idealistic silent film buff who perished in the Spanish Civil War"), from the quirky ("Louise Brooks' First Television Broadcast") to the surprising ("A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author"). Also included are related interviews with actor Paul McGann, singer- songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and novelist Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone.... with dozens of illustrations.

Author : Peter Cowie
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louise Brooks written by Peter Cowie and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her career began as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies, and soon she was receiving film offers from both MGM and Paramount, mingling with the high and mighty of Hollywood, having a passionate affair with Charlie Chaplin, spending weekends at William Randolph Hearst's castle and captivating such men as William S. Paley, the founder of CBS. Cowie celebrates Lulu with rare film footage stills, private photos, letters, interviews, and text, exploring this influential cult figure and abiding symbol of the Jazz Age.

Author : Thomas Gladysz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557508487
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Lost Girl (Louise Brooks Edition) written by Thomas Gladysz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1929 Louise Brooks film, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, is based on a bestselling book first published in Germany in 1905. Though little known today, it was a literary sensation at the beginning of the 20th Century. Was it – as many believed – the real-life diary of a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution? Or a sensational and clever fake, one of the first novels of its kind? This controversial and often censored work inspired a sequel, a parody, a play, a score of imitators, and two silent films. It was also translated into 14 languages, and sold more than 1,200,000 copies. This new edition of the original English language translation brings this important book back into print in the United States after more than 100 years. It includes an introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, detailing the book's remarkable history. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" also includes more than three dozen vintage illustrations. More at www.pandorasbox.com/diary.html

Author : Jan Wahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593934743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Stinkpot written by Jan Wahl and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooks and Wahl had a special, roller-coaster relationship lasting 20-odd years. Their intense friendship continued by letter and in person. The letters from Brooks reveal much of her inner personality--her insights and anecdotes make fascinating, compelling reading.

Author : Thomas Gladysz
Publisher : Pandorasbox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692879535
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beggars of Life written by Thomas Gladysz and published by Pandorasbox Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first ever study of "Beggars of Life" looks at the film Oscar-winning director William Wellman thought his finest silent movie. Based on Jim Tully's bestselling book of hobo life-and filmed by Wellman the year after he made "Wings" (the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar), "Beggars of Life" is a riveting drama about an orphan girl (screen legend Louise Brooks) who kills her abusive stepfather and flees the law. She meets a boy tramp (leading man Richard Arlen), and together they ride the rails through a dangerous hobo underground ruled over by Oklahoma Red (future Oscar winner Wallace Beery). "Beggars of Life" showcases Brooks in her best American silent-a film the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" described as "a raw, sometimes bleeding slice of life." With more than 50 little seen images, and a foreword by William Wellman, Jr.

Author : Laura Moriarty
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110158565X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chaperone written by Laura Moriarty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

Author : Louise Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816637317
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lulu in Hollywood written by Louise Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louise Brooks (1906-1985), one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, was renowned as much for her rebellion against Hollywood as for her performances in such classics as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Collected here are eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, vividly describing her childhood in Kansas, her early career as a Denishawn dancer and Ziegfeld Follies "Glorified Girl," and her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart and others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Robert H. Ruby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133430
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esther Ross, Stillaguamish Champion written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh God, here comes Esther Ross." Such was the greeting she received from members of the U.S. Congress during her repeated trips to the Capitol on behalf of Stillaguamish Indians. Tenacious and passionate, Esther Ross's refusal to abandon her cause resulted in federal recognition of the Stillaguamish Tribe in 1976. Her efforts on behalf of Pacific Northwest Indians at federal, state, and local levels led not only to the rebirth of the Stillaguamish but also to policy reforms affecting all Indian tribes. In this rare, in-depth portrait of a contemporary American Indian woman, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown document Ross's life and achievements. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Stillaguamish tribe, located on the Puget Sound in Washington State, had all but disappeared. With no organization or system of communication, tribal members dispersed. Desperate for help, surviving members asked Ross, a young, well-educated descendant of Stillaguamish and Norwegian heritage, to assist them in suing for lost land and government services. For fifty years, she waged a persistent campaign, largely self-staffed and self-funded. Despite personal problems, cultural barriers, and reluctance among some tribal members, Ross succeeded, but she was eventually forced from tribal leadership.

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219656X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louise in Love written by Mary Jo Bang and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems inspired by silent-film star Louise Brooks from the National Book Critics Award–winning author of Elegy and acclaimed translator of Dante’s Inferno. In this stunning collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious, and the reader is invited to listen. Bang, whose first collection was the prize-winning Apology for Want, both parodies and pays homage to the lyric tradition, borrowing its lush music and dramatic structure to give new voice to the old concerns of the late Romantic poets. Louise in Love is a dramatic postmodern verse-novel. The poems, rife with literary allusion, take journeys to distant lands. And, like anyone on a voyage without a destination, they are endlessly questioning of the enigmatic world around them. “One of the finest poets of her generation.” —Marjorie Perloff

Author : Sarah Greenough
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat Memories written by Sarah Greenough and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most visionary writers of his generation, Ginsberg was also a photographer. From 1953 to 1963 he frequently had his camera close by when he was with friends in his apartment or traveling with them, ready to record 'certain moments in eternity, ' as he wrote. For years many of these photographs languished among Ginsberg's papers. When he finally recovered them in the 1980s, he reprinted them and added handwritten narrative inscriptions. Inspired by this early work, he began to photograph again, recording both long-time friends and new acquaintances. Some eighty of these photographs are collected and brilliantly reproduced in this book, which also features the first scholarly essay on Ginsberg's photographs, written by Sarah Greenough, addressing the relationship of his photographs to his poetry and to works by other photographers of the period. Ginsberg's photographs depict many of his contemporaries, including his closest friends and lovers, such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky. They capture days walking the streets of Manhattan, San Francisco, and Paris as well as grand tours of Africa and Asia."--Jacket flap.