num_pages: 184
description: Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, and others are collected here. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1982.
language: English
title: Lulu in Hollywood
titlecomplete: Lulu in Hollywood
characters: Louise Brooks
genres: Biography, Media Tie In, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Essays, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Film, History
ratings_count: 1726
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press