Actor
Louise Brooks
November 14, 1906 · Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.
Brooks began her career as a dancer. While dancing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, she came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract with the studio. She appeared in supporting roles in various Paramount films before taking the heroine's role in Beggars of Life (1928).
Often works with
Wallace Beery
2 titles together
Beggars of Life, Now We're in the Air
Richard Arlen
2 titles together
Beggars of Life, Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Eugene Pallette
2 titles together
The Canary Murder Case, It Pays to Advertise
Margaret Livingston
2 titles together
The Canary Murder Case, God's Gift to Women
Dorothy Mathews
2 titles together
A Girl in Every Port, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Clara Bow
2 titles together
The Casting Couch, Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Full filmography · 26
Away with Words
as Louise Brooks
2026
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
cast
2012
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
cast
2010
The Casting Couch
cast
19951001 Films
as (archival)
1989
Overland Stage Raiders
as Beth Hoyt
1938
When You're in Love
as Specialty Ballerina in Chorus
1937
Empty Saddles
as Boots Boone
1936
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
as Betty Grey
1931
God's Gift to Women
as Florine
1931
It Pays to Advertise
as Thelma Temple
1931
Miss Europe
as Lucienne
1930