Tag «Louise Brooks»

Pandora’s box (filmography page)

  According to two plays through the acclaimed German dramatist Frank Wedekind, Die Büchse der Pandora, or Pandora’s Box, informs the storyline of Lulu, an attractive, amoral, and somewhat petulant showgirl whose behavior results in tragic effects. Louise Brooks plays Lulu, the singular femme fatale. As Brooks biographer Craig Paris place it, her “sinless sexuality hypnotizes …

Pandora’s box (1929)

Pandora’s Box (1929) Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), Louise Brooks originated from Kansas. Dorothy rode a tornado. Brooks was one. Intelligent, temperamental, quick around the trigger, the main thing on liberated behavior for ladies between your wars, she made 24 films between 1925 and 1928, basically three produced in Hollywood. However it …