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Paris, Barry Louise Brooks
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1989 0-394-55923-1 / 9780394559230 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj Illustrated by (dj design) Louise Fili
[light soiling to page edges, no other significant wear; jacket shows light surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) One of the best actress biographies you're ever likely to read, the engrossing life story of a woman who somehow, through a combination of chance, fortuitious connections and her own force of character, managed to become one of the enduring icons of cinema history despite a truncated and largely negligible film career. "What's all this talk about Louise Brooks?", director George Cukor once famously ranted. "She was nobody! She was a nothing in films!" Well, yes and no. The famous exception to a string of mostly minor roles in mostly obscure and largely-forgotten films was, of course, her luminous performance as "Lulu" in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box" -- which in the long run proved to be her ticket to immortality. The story of the more than fifty years that passed between that film and her death, however, is a harrowing chronicle of alcoholism, promiscuity, near-poverty,rage, religion and rejection, ending in her ultimate self-resurrection as a writer. A wonderful book.
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