Louise Brooks

Actress Louise Brooks may not have been the woman to originally popularize the bob, but she's now one of the people most frequently associated with the look. Perhaps it's because she wore it better than just about everyone else. Louise's sharp, angled bob became a symbol of the 1920s "flapper." She had imitators then; she certainly has imitators now. Talk about a lasting image. Read Full Story

image via beliefnet. I think I am about to commit some movie heresy which I may regret later.  For many years after initially viewing the German silents "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl", both directed by G. W. Pabst, I belonged to the club which believed that Louise Brooks was not only one of the great iconic screen presences but that it was the moviegoer's loss when on her return to Hollywood after making the above film in France her career crashed.  Theory has it that she upset too many people after swanning off to Europe when her U.S. career was just ... Read Full Story

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