@@matthewarroyo3118one comment to me that sticks out, is that Joan danced like a sumo wrestler. Which Louise having been with the Denishawn dancers (founders of modern dance) the George White Scandals and the Follies, is quite a burn.
Louise Brooks wasn’t always complimentary towards other people in her opinions, didn’t matter if you were a woman or a man. She was extremely blunt with her observations.
What an incredibly beautiful woman she was, still extremely lovely here and also clearly a very intelligent,decent vivacious person. Bloody hell perfection can exist .
It's on RU-vid I just watched it about a month ago. This is a snippet from her biography. They are almost at the part of talkies and her decline, she was black balled if I remember cause of the casting couch. She wouldn't degrade herself so when her first talkie pic failed they used that as an excuse to drop her. Didn't give her another chance until 1930 something with John Wayne a cowboy movie hell I would've quit to A list movies to B list cowboy movie. Edit........I just saw someone else say in another video that this is from Clara's documentary. However. Ms Gish documentary is equally fascinating and sad what the studio heads did to her.
Eddie Sutherland, movie director and Louise's husband at the time, gave the best parties but wouldn't invite Clara because "you don't know what she'll do. She's from Brooklyn!" - Love that line!
I love how Louise doesn't have a bad thing to say about her fellow actress. How many times have we seen actresses & musicians cutting each other up on social media? Louise is honest & classy & truly ahead of her time. My only wish is that she hadn't picked so many battles to her detriment. However, it is safe to assume she lived her life on her terms unapologetically and for that reason she is tops in my book!
@@Garrett1240 No it isn't. The "mid-Atlantic" accent doesn't exist naturally. It's a designed accent that actors in those days were trained to use, or chose to use. When Brooks first arrived in New York, in an attempt to become a Broadway star, she dropped what she herself described as her native Kansas "hick" accent in favor of that "mid-Atlantic" accent, because that's how performers spoke at the time.
@@hux2000 I’m well aware that many people put on an accent which later became known as the transatlantic accent, but the accent she’s speaking in here is not in the slightest bit put-on and sounds 100% natural. Are you from the US? Anyone who is would tell you they’ve heard elderly people speak exactly like this, my grandmother included. Whatever you think of as the ideal transatlantic accent, it was approximately the way many many people already spoke during the first half of the 20th century.
@@Garrett1240 If that's how many people already spoke, it wouldn't have been necessary to have elocution/voice coaches. The movie accent I hear over and over again was taught and learned, and rightfully so. But it's a new world now. I recently saw Elliot Gould in an interview reciting a line of Shakespeare. Why he did, I'll never know, but he sounded like the guy at Coney Island, "You want mustard on that?"
My goodness. I really like L.B. She is so ingratiating of her fellow film stars. A new space in my love of early Hollywood sophistication, glamour and intellect for me.
the silent film era is so underrated! we need to go back and reevaluate these movies, directors, actors and actresses, etc. It really was a marvelous era and I am not sure what we lost with sound was worth it....
She speaks so well. I think Americans used to speak so much better than they do today. I'm British and we have started sounding awful. No wonder Americans make fun of how we talk. She has a wonderful mellifluent voice.
I agree. My grandfather was from England, and I have been a frequent visitor myself since I was a child. After living in London for 6 years, the noticeable difference in UK speech and diction has become horrible; more and more everyone sounds like the cast of TOWIE. Sad!
It's called the Transatlantic accent. Sounds quite contrived today but it was fashionble to American upper class and showbiz folks "not from Brooklyn" at the time.
@@andershansson2245 That's no Transatlantic accent. That sing-songy rhythm in her speech was standard for large swaths, if not most, of Americans not too long ago. See William Buckley for an actual transatlantic accent.
@msmissy6888 - If Brits don't want to be insulted they need to stop behaving like trash. Brits rank as the worst tourist practically everywhere due to the fact they are drunken, uneducated yobs. Are you really unaware of this fact? I suggest you travel more. Google "UK has worst behaviour problem in Europe". And then Google "British tourist worst in the world". Brits act like uneducated yobs at home and abroad. And yes, Americans always mock how Brits speak. I'm not lying, you are just poorly informed.
Seriously ! She’s one of my absolute favorites. Always had such a mysterious and unique energy to her compared to a lot of other actresses. I love Clara too, they are / were both Leo’s ♌️
@@kaymuldoon3575 not sure she was in her 70's here...could be wrong but I think this footage was recorderd around 1971 as she recorded the Lulu in Berlin interview in 71 and she looks the same age in that as she does here so she was around mid 60's here (possibly)...she still looks quite striking and beautiful though. Think she has good genetics as she aged very, very well
What an enigmatic woman. She was so lovely even in her 70s. Reminds me of my 85 y.o. neighbour who looks like she's only 60. She led a hard life working as a cleaner in London hotels since her early 20s, but it doesn't show. I love it when women embrace the aging process wholeheartedly. Looking good despite advancement in age is mainly genetics' work, but of course taking good care of the body also definitely helps.
@@nigelcarren Steel stilettos? Wow. Lovely to stumble upon a fantastic artist. Looking forward to your latest uploads. Wising you the best in your craft. :) See you around.
Whenever I think of the ultimate unobtainable femme fatale of the 20s. Its Louise Brooks! The ultimate Raven haired helmeted woman! Without question...My idea of the perfect leading lady! I love you...
Think both Clara and Louise could have continued making movies. Have read that Clara didn't like the sound of her voice. From the clips I've seen of her few "talkies", don't think she had a bad sounding voice. With the right film roles, think both could have been successful and had longer careers. Louise certainly never lost her looks.
Neither wanted to continue in the movies. It would probably have destroyed Clara emotionally. Louise was never a big star in America and even less so after her European dalliance. Her current status is entirely the result of her 1950's re-discovery.
I just saw a few clips of Louise in talkies. One with a young John Wayne. Louise was tremendous. A great voice that truly succeeded in making the transition from silent films.
I'd have fallen in love with Louise at this age. How beautiful she was. All the silent age actresses were either bullied or bought out. All of them; Brooks, Bow, Pickford, you name em. Bullied, bought, or simply gave up. Alot of them committed suicide, as well. Hollywood is completely evil. Read Brooks' "Lulu in Hollywood". Run by the ruthless, sex crazed drunks. Still is...
She is a natural beauty and looks gorgeous for her age without all the fillers and other plastic surgeries that much younger women put in their faces and bodies
@@Ohnoitsruthio- No need to ridicule her. She is not alive, obviously, and certainly not over 117. I agree very much with RB Media that Louise in her 70s looked beautiful.
@@iadorenewyork1 The OP deserves ridicule. It's like saying "Jeanette MacDonald's voice was like so way kewl, she didn't use AutoTune. If you can't detect the silliness, I can't successfully explain it.
Watch the song "Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Pandora's Box" based on Louise Brooks. Wonderful song. She has success at such a young age and then left.
@@January. Thank you.. Yes, CLASS also sounds better. Although you will frequently hear it the way I said it : with the three "Bs". Anyway, we both agree that LBrooks was a very special person with special qualities. You will hear the phrase in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Rebecca" .
@@January. Are you a teacher, journalist, with a keen eye on the comments ? Most people do not care for grammar, or the use of a correct language in RU-vid.
That's right and they were childhood friends! It's unknown whether they stayed in touch after Miss Brooks got famous in the 1920's Berlin when Miss Vance was still an unknown in Albuquerque OR during the 1950's when Miss Vance became famous as Ethel Mertz in the 1950's in LA but Miss Brooks's star had waned and she'd gone into obscurity in Rochester, New York!
Yeah. And the reason she had such a tough time in Hollywood was that she was authentic and genuine. She was a real person. She'd grown up poor and never learned how to be fake, and people like Mary Pickford treated her pretty nasty because of that. :(
@@history_by_lamplight Thats interesting because Mary herself grew up poor, but the fake thing i don't know much about nor the part about her being nasty towards Clara. But I do know about her resentment towards Joan Crawford.
@@fosterglucose3214 I could be getting my details wrong, absolutely. It also seems I heard somewhere that Colleen Moore didn't treat Clara her too kindly.
@@fosterglucose3214 Definitely. ❤ She had an interesting life, but *such* a heartbreaking one. You may know this already, but when she was a teenager, she woke up once in the middle of the night to find her mom leaning over her in the dark, a knife in her hand, ready to kill her in her sleep. I think she snapped a little after that. And of course, Hollywood was one long sad episode in her life. 😟 I've always felt a special kinship with her that I can't explain. But sad as her life was, she was definitely one of the best actresses America has ever produced. ❤
Kind of like Marilyn Monroe didn't exist off the screen. I read a quote from Clara Bow. Paraphrasing, I slip my IT girl crown, not to Taylor, not to Bardot, but to Monroe. They had a lot in common, horrific childhoods, both of their mothers were schizophrenic.
I read “ LU LU IN HOLLYWOOD” ages ago and fell in love with miss brooks then and there. So full of life! I’m dying to see “Pandora’s Box”. Where can I view it? If anyone knows plz let me know.
@@buska100 thank you, I have viewed it already. I am thinking the thumbnail is when Louise is talking about how her then husband wouldn’t invite Clara Bow to a party bc she was from Brooklyn (?) . What a snob! I think Clara Bow was really “ IT” and so very contemporary and ahead of her time. I’d love to see interviews and the like ,with her talking . But alas , it is not to be. A lot of the fashions in “ PANDORA” could be worn today with a touch of updating. I really liked the film.
Gabby Louise B. loved to go on and on about Tinseltown, fortunately for film lovers everywhere. Brooks herself, of course, remains known for her German work for G. W. Pabst.
Louise Brooks MUST Get A Posthumous Oscar......for “ Pandora’s Box “ as well as her Many Other Films....Let’s Start A Call To Get Her An Oscar....NOW !!!! IT IS LONG OVERDUE !
This is a complete surprise to me. I thought that Louise Brooks had left the movie industry in mysterious circumstances, and lived a reclusive life for the rest of her days. I wonder if there is any more interview footage of Louise Brooks?
I remember this. It was a brilliant UK ITV documentary series called Hollywood, narrated by James Mason, shown in 1979. Carl Davies scored the series and the movie clips which were shown. Many figures of the 1920s appeared, Louise Brooks was something of a sensation as, like you, no one knew what had happened to her. Adela Rogers St Johns, mentioned here, was a terrific interviewee. I remember Anita Loos, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, King Vidor, Lillian Gish, Colleen Moore, Gloria Swanson were all interviewed in it.
Does anyone else get a sort-of Lillian Gish vibe from Louise Brooks at her age in this interview? If her career had thrived instead of tanking I think she might possibly have become one of the greatest American actresses. Too bad that the young Louise didn't ever forsee that acting in motion-pictures would someday achieve the level of Art.
Louise also was under pressure to change her accent - coming from Kansas to New York in the early 1920s, she was told she sounded like a 'hayseed', so she adopted the 'New York stage' way of speaking.
