Lulu in Hollywood - Hardcover

Louise Brooks

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394520718 ISBN 13: 9780394520711

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

Synopsis

Film

Introduction by Kenneth Tynan

The collected writings of this icon of the silent era, in a new, more complete edition.

Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, William Paley, G. W. Pabst, and others are collected here. New to this edition is the revelatory "Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs" by Brooks and "The Girl in the Black Helmet" by Kenneth Tynan, which brought about the revival of interest in her work and was the best discussion of Brooks's film work to appear in her lifetime.

"The writing is assured, graceful, and magnetic; the life the dancer-actress-author describes makes most fiction trivial by comparison. . . . This is no ordinary collection of gossipy memoirs. It is a tour de force, as history and as a searching study of human nature." Publishers Weekly

"Brooks is brilliantly perceptive and articulate on everything from the art of film directing to the comedy of W. C. Fields." New York Times

"A minor classic." Film Quarterly

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About this title

About the Author:

John Lahr is the senior drama critic of "The New Yorker," He is the author of sixteen books, the latest of which is "Show and Tell," published by Bloomsbury.
Simon Callow is an internationally acclaimed star of stage and screen.

Review:

A whip-flicking display of wit and spite. Brooks writes about her contemporaries with darting precision and down-to-earth compassion. -- James Wolcott, Esquire

A woman of ideas. Her writings—and this, for an actor, is really extraordinary—are about something more than just herself. -- Sight and Sound

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0394520718
• ISBN 13: 9780394520711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 109