Louise Brooks was one of the silver screen's first and most enduring stars, appearing as the sensual yet innocent Lulu in G. W. Pabst's classic Pandora's Box. Lulu Brooks rose from the Ziefeld Follies to become a silent film icon.
Called one of the most intensely erotic screen beauties of all time her rise, fall, and resurrection make for a fascinating personal history. With a coquettish style all her own, Lulu is chic, sexy, sophisticated and the ultimate femme fatale. Her classic features and distinctive hairstyle look as modern as they did when she first appered in films in 1925.
The book charts her journey from California to Berlin and combines rare film footage stills, private photos, letters and photographs. Louise Brooks is film's first and perhaps ultimate modern woman. Written by friend and famous film critic, Peter Cowrie, this is a lavish tribute chronicling the life and work of Louise Brooks in a superbly illustrated volume published to coincide with the centenary of her birth.
