num_pages: 624
description: Film The long-awaited republication of this captivating account of the star's life. Louise Brooks left Wichita, Kansas, for New York City at age fifteen and lived the kind of life of which legends are made. From her beginnings as a dancer to her years in Hollywood, Berlin, and beyond, she was hailed and reviled as a new type of woman: independent, intellectually daring, and sexually free. In this widely acclaimed, first and only comprehensive biography, Barry Paris traces Brooks's trajectory from her childhood through her fall into obscurity and subsequent "resurrection" as a brilliant writer and enduring film icon.
language: English
title: Louise Brooks: A Biography
titlecomplete: Louise Brooks: A Biography
characters: Louise Brooks
genres: Biography, Media Tie In, History, American History, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Film, Memoir, Cultural
ratings_count: 953
places: New York City, New York, Wichita, Kansas, Rochester, New York, Hollywood, California, Berlin
publisher: University of Minnesota Press