kat donegan 🇵🇸✊Nov 14
#art #history: what. a. face.
louise brooks, born #otd in 1906, held a universe of expression in her eyes & she lived life on her own terms, social mores be damned.
i've got words for her & i'll post them below for your pleasure.
#louiseBrooks #dandy #film #cinema #kansas #illustration
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊Nov 14
louise brooks is someone whose surface needs to be scratched in order to reveal her value.
she is much more than the sum of her perfectly straight fringe & enviably iconic bob. louise carved a ragged road from the ziegfeld follies to highly vaunted (if controversial) roles in celebrated european films that were sexually charged & taut with social commentary.
#cinema #flapper #louiseBrooks #art #illustration
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊
her return to hollywood in the early 30s saw her acting work sag, so she dabbled in dancing, radio & writing. mercifully, her films were revived in the 1950s by french film historians, who proclaimed her superior to marlene dietrich & (former dalliance) greta garbo. by her own admissions, her sexually liberal attitudes were informed by an incident of CSA when she was nine years old. she said it left her incapable of real love.
#hollywood #illustration #louiseBrooks #marleneDietrich #gretaGarbo
Nov 14 at 9:29pmWeb
Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊Nov 14
this tragedy lay just beneath the surface of everything louise brooks ever did. what i love most about louise is her grace. she wrote to an author who’d slagged off clara bow & gave him a right tongue lashing: 'you brush off clara bow for some old nothing like brooks. clara made three pictures that will never be surpassed'... she died in 1985, with generosity of spirit intact.
#louiseBrooks #cinema #art #claraBow