Forever Louise Brooks
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Louise Brooks obsessive.
Close-up detail of the famous “Louise Brooks on a Chair” portrait by legendary photographer Edward Steichen featured in ‘Vanity Fair,’ January, 1929.
Louise poses as a dancing “nautch girl” for a Eugene Robert Richee photoshoot, 1928. I’ve posted a number of photos from this unusual session but not this one. More in the thread.
“The futuristic print in gay colors will pattern the chic bathing suits of 1928. Mary Brian is wearing the very latest gasp in beach apparel, which comprises a galaxy of design and color. A cape of rubberized silk is worn.” Photo for Paramount by George Hommel.
Carla Laemmle, c 1930. A trained dancer with only a few uncredited film roles, she was also the niece of Universal owner and co-founder Carl Laemmle. Carla was also one of the longest-surviving performers of the silent era, passing in 2014 at the age of 104.
Aileen Pringle poses in an “undersea dance tableau” for A Thief in Paradise (1925). #botd
Carole Lombard from a portrait by Irving Lippman, 1934.
Louise and W.C. Fields in a still for It’s the Old Army Game (1926).
“Fume” by Marcel René von Herrfeldt, 1925.