Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition [Paperback]

Essential writings by this icon of the silent erarereleased in print and now available as an e-book 100 years after Louise Brooks arrived in Hollywood

Lulu in Hollywoodis an intimate collection of eight autobiographical essays by Louise Brooks, silent film darling and icon of the flapper era. 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, Brookss writing offers a rare glimpse into her extraordinary life. Including her revelatory Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs,Lulu in Hollywoodalso features Kenneth Tynans 1979 essay The Girl in the Black Helmet, which revived interest in Brookss work and was the best discussion of her film work to appear in her lifetime.

Louise Brooks (19061985) 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 asPandoras BoxandDiary of a Lost Girl.

Louise Brooks, with her straight back and strong shoulders seems to have her own form of sexuality-preconscious and yet intuitively all-knowing. Shes like a cool, beautiful, innocently deadly cat that people cant keep their hands off. Pauline Kael

One of the most literate books ever written about moviemaking. Democrat and Chronicle

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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