When you meet someone like this in life, you're attracted, but you know in your gut she'll be nothing but trouble.
Popularity comes and goes.
Brooks remains, because of her luck in making two great films in Germany right at the end of the silent era, after she had burned all her bridges in Hollywood. She is thin but not skinny, a flapper. When she drank she did things like telling Paramount to go to hell when they asked her to come back to Hollywood and dub dialogue into her last silent film. Her life was as harrowing as Frances Farmer's, but it had a happier ending. When James Card, then the film curator at Eastman House, asked Springer where Brooks could be found, Springer knocked on her door.