Tag: hollywood

  • SILENT MOVIES: Louise Brooks, The Quintessential Flapper

    I love movies. Hollywood classics, foreign movies, and really old, silent movies. If you haven’t made a habit of watching pre-sound films, you might not know the name Louise Brooks.  She was one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, intellectually brilliant, sexually uninhibited, pleasure-loving, strong-willed, non-conformist, and a marvelous dancer.  Unsurprisingly, she was…