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Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress and dancer known professionally as Louise Brooks, who was noted as an iconic symbol of the flapper, and for popularizing the bobbed haircut.

Brooks is best known as the lead in three feature films made in Europe: Pandora's Box , Diary of a Lost Girl , and Miss Europe ; the first two were made by G. W. Pabst. She starred in seventeen silent films and eight sound films before retiring in 1938. Brooks published her memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982; three years later she died of a heart attack at the age of 78.

✵ 14. November 1906 – 8. August 1985
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Louise Brooks Quotes

“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”

Louise Brooks

Lulu in Hollywood (1982)

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“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.”

Louise Brooks

Looking for Lulu (1998)

Singing , Whore , Heart , Dance

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