Louise Brooks
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“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only !”
The flapper’s icon, was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her trademark haircut, the “black helmet” was wo ....
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.... an icon, and ignored as an artist. She is one of the most striking and original film actresses of time. She has something “modern” and timeless about her image and attitude that all attempts to acknowledge her as just another representative of the Roaring 20’s are doomed. The motion picture camera renders her dreamlike; her spirit injects dark blood and ivory flesh into and onto the shadowy image. Onscreen, she is, she lives a merciless, innocent creature, frankly carnal yet whimsic ....
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Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)