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Louise Brooks photo by W. Eugene Robert Richee

Stage Name

Birth Name
Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks
    Trained by legendary dancer Ruth St. Denis and started dancing professionally with St. Denis in 1921 and later the Ziegfeld Follies. Brooks had one of the most copied "Bob" haircut of the 1920's, she went on to become a very successful Silent Film actress in the movies and she also inspired the "Dixie Dugan" comic strips.

    Disillusioned with Hollywood she slipped into obscurity until the 1950s. However during the 1940s she teamed up with another dancer by the name of 'Barrett O'Shea' and formed a dance studio in Los Angeles with him (Barrett O'Shea dance studio) and published weekly dance articles (a series of anecdotal advertisements actually) in local newspapers called "Hints For Dancing" which included dance Gossip and Tips on Music or dance Techniques. This kept her in the public eye for many years.
More to come!.
 

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Cherryvale, KS

11/14/1906-8/8/1985

Edward Sutherland

n/a
           

Dearing Davis

      
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballroom

 Barrett O'Shea  
             
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage / Studios
n/a n/a Barrett O'Shea dance studio
 

Films

Television

Publications

1925 - Street Of Forgotten Men

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9/1926 - Photoplay Magazine

1926 - American Venus

      

10/4/1930 - Cenfilo Magazine

1926 - Social Celebrity

       1940 - Local L.A. Dance Column (Hints For Dancers)

$1926 - The Show Off

      1941 - Fundamentals of Ballroom Dancing (Brooks)

1926 - It's The Old Army Game

      

1974 - No Dope Mag. (#5)

1926 - Just Another Blonde

      

1982 - LuLu In Hollywood (Brooks)

1926 - Love 'em and Leave 'em

            

1926 - Girl From Coney Island

            

1926 - Now Were In The Air

            

1926 - The Showoff

            

1927 - City Gone Wild

            

1927 - Rolled Stockings

            

1928 - Beggars of Life

            

1928 - Diary of a Lost Girl

            

1928 - A Girl In Every Port

            

1928 - Pretty Polly

            

1929 - Canary Murder Case, The

            

$1929 - Pandora's Box

           

1931 - The Gas Bag

            

1936 - Empty Saddles

            
NOTE:
August 12, 2008

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