“She dies from never having experienced a love of her own volition.”
German writer Margarete Böhme was born #OTD in 1867.
She is best known for her controversial and highly successful novel, "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen", first published in 1905. It purportedly tells the true story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. A movie was made based on this book (Tabea, stehe auf! 1922).
If you thought silent film was boring think again. There's something incredibly modern about Louise Brooks in this rollercoaster of sex and drama. The great Austrian director George W Pabst made this in Weimar Germany, recruiting Brooks from the US for her breakout role.
#art#history: apologies, louise, for being late. #noirvember
louise brooks (born #otd in 1906) is another human whose surface needs to be scratched in order to reveal her true value.
it seems impossible that certain people ever existed, so determined are they to live life on their own terms - & so unconcerned with abiding by their era’s social mores. [THREAD to celebrate louise's life] #louiseBrooks#kansas#film#cinema#illustration#wip
so it is with our beloved subject - who, i hasten to add, is much more than the sum of her perfectly straight fringe & enviably glistening bob. she 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. her return in the early 30s to hollywood saw her acting work sag, so she dabbled in dancing, radio & writing. #louiseBrooks#hair#art#film#illustration#cinema#radio
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 molestation when she was nine years old. she said it left her incapable of real love. this tragedy lay just beneath the surface of everything louise brooks ever did. #cinema#filmHistorians#louiseBrooks#marleneDietrich#gretaGarbo#art#noirvember
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#claraBow#film#cinema#kansas#illustration
Old film you should watch: Pandora's Box (dir. G.W Pabst, 1929 - TRAILER (m.youtube.com)
If you thought silent film was boring think again. There's something incredibly modern about Louise Brooks in this rollercoaster of sex and drama. The great Austrian director George W Pabst made this in Weimar Germany, recruiting Brooks from the US for her breakout role.