Louise Brooks

Actor

Born: November 14, 1906
Died: August 8, 1985 (age 78)
From: Cherryvale, Kansas, USA

Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the…

Filmography (35)

Away with Words (2026)
Louise Brooks
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
Herself (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture (2010)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)
Self (archive footage)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
Herself (archive footage)
The Casting Couch (1995)
1001 Films
1001 Films (1989)
(archival)
Louise Brooks (1986)
Herself (Archival Footage)
Lulu in Berlin (1984)
Self
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture (1976)
Self - Interviewee
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
Beth Hoyt
When You're in Love (1937)
Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
Empty Saddles (1936)
Boots Boone
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)
Betty Grey
God's Gift to Women (1931)
Florine
It Pays to Advertise (1931)
Thelma Temple
Miss Europe (1930)
Lucienne
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Thymian Henning
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
The Canary
Pandora's Box (1929)
Lulu
Beggars of Life (1928)
The Girl (Nancy)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Marie / Mam'selle Godiva
The City Gone Wild (1927)
Snuggles Joy
Now We're in the Air (1927)
Griselle and Grisette
Rolled Stockings (1927)
Carol Fleming
Evening Clothes (1927)
Fox Trot
Just Another Blonde (1926)
Diana O'Sullivan
The Show Off (1926)
Clara