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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known as the lead in three feature films made in Europe, including two G. W. Pabst films: Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930). She starred in 17 silent films and, late in life, authored a memoir, Lulu in Hollywood. Born in Cherryvale, Kansas, Louise Brooks was the daughter of Leonard Porter Brooks, a lawyer,... MORE

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"I just didn't fit into the Hollywood scheme at all. I was neither a fluffy heroine, nor a wicked vamp, nor a woman of the world. I just didn't fit into any category." -- Louise Brooks. She was born Mary Louise Brooks in 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas. A professional dancer from the age of ten, her mother chopped off her beloved braids and created a hair style known variously as a pageboy, Dutch bob, Buster Brown, Prince Valiant or Cleopatra. But the newspapers of the day just called it The Look. As a rebellious teenager Brooks traveled to New York and joined the experimental Denishawn Dance Company, whose members included Martha Graham. At seventeen she did time as a chorus cutie in the George White Scandals, then signed on with the Zigfield Follies where she performed a specialty act, had her portrait painted by Vargas, drank with WC Fields, conducted a summer affair with Charlie Chaplin, and provided the inspiration for the comic strip Dixie Dugan. By then she was one of the most popular flappers in town. Later she said that Martha Graham taught her about acting and Charlie Chaplin taught her about dancing. In 1926 she scored a five year contract with Paramont, who cast her in several bit parts followed by a featured role in "It's the Old Army Game" with her old drinking buddy WC Fields. In 1928 her film career took off with major roles in Howard Hawks' "A Girl in Every Port" and William Wellman's "Beggars for Life." In 1929 she starred with William Powell and Jean Arthur ...