No matter what year you watch her, she always looks like a contemporary woman had time-travelled to a silent movie

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree, she is timeless.

@stanogden8864

11 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@a.jlondon9039

11 ай бұрын

She is timeless.

@elliepascoe5954

10 ай бұрын

True!

@privatedeborah1004

10 ай бұрын

Just look at the seduction scene in "Pandora's Box" with Fritz Kortner. Her gaze is ultra-modern, a woman in full charge of her sexuality, there is nothing oldfashioned about her.

Yes! My grandfather Alfred Savoir directed Louise in a couple of films while they were both still in Hollywood. He said she was not only gorgeous but intelligent and deep, and that she had no business in that business. I suppose she knew that too. There’s even a picture of them together on some Hollywood film set (maybe Ernst Lubitsch?) He urged her to stay in Europe but at the end she wasn’t interested in all that. She was always a writer he said and a very witty conversationalist. The way the camera captures her depth and charm and wily nature is nonpareil ❤ Thank you for a lovely video !

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for a lovely anecdote.

@carolannemckenzie3849

9 ай бұрын

I note your grandfather was a true renaissance man - law graduate, playwright, magazine editor, aviator and recipient of the Legion d'Honneur. You must be very proud of him.

@carolannemckenzie3849

9 ай бұрын

I see your grandmere once owned a Renoir, which sold at auction for over £12 million four years ago...

What a delightful tribute . To me she’s one of the most beautiful women ever in Hollywood.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@waynej2608

11 ай бұрын

She was an absolute stunner!

@emsnewssupkis6453

10 ай бұрын

She went insane in Hollywood. I am near her age when she died now and I know Hollywood really well (my family is one of the founding families of the California town back in the 1800s) and we girls were warned by our parents when we were young to avoid Hollywood which my parents considered to be 'Hollow Wood.'

My mother looked like her when she was a teenager. Same hair and facial structure. She also had naturally full lips. My mother was born in 1922.

She could go from stunningly beautiful to extremely adorable with a simple smile. Very magnetic.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

She was gorgeous, lived by her own rules, burned all her bridges, refused to kiss ass, made no apologies for the life she chose, and I love her for all of it!

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

She was too modern for the time she was born into.

@deborahklinlger8565

11 ай бұрын

@professorgraemeyorston You could say she was ahead of her time ⏲️!!!!!! So sad about her sad abusive childhood. I

@harrodsfan

11 ай бұрын

And worked as an escort by her own choice.

@johnrunion5357

11 ай бұрын

louise brooks : "i don't belong anywhere ... to anyone ... to anything " in a letter from 1964.

@paulazemeckis7835

9 ай бұрын

​@@professorgraemeyorstonyou mean too intelligent for small male mentality. I encountered that too. Born in 1959. Cant take responsibility for for it. Just trailblazed thru it. I thank my predecessors sooooo much. Women have been controlled by small male mentality for centuries. I am sure I would have had a lobotomy had I been born 20 to 30 years earlier. No more manipulation and control the men.. Yay! I love, love men!

I have a tinted framed photo of her. I swear those smouldering peepers follow you around the room. I have always found her timeless, magnetic and gutsy. Great actress with so much presence, appeal and style. A real rebel spirit and pioneer in the creative arts. Great presentation, thankyou.

Child abuse is so insidiously evil. Poor Louise and all the other malleable children that depraved man damaged.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I wonder how her life would have turned out, if she had not been subjected to that.

@xxLornyTunesxx

6 ай бұрын

What does it say about her own mother, her response disgusts me

@SKOMonster

29 күн бұрын

Right? I can't imagine having this attitude to a dependent creature or person. I think she was either narcissistic or at least extremely selfish. Even though I get her not wanting to be just about kids, but there are ways to accomplish that without being callous. This was callous disregard, plus the accusation of her then 9 year old daughter, I think she was a textbook narcissist ​@xxLornyTunesxx

A wonderful video! I've always thought Louise Brooks was terribly underappreciated.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I agree.

@grosbeak6130

11 ай бұрын

Terribly underappreciated? The world was her oyster back in the day. And now even today you got videos like this on her, praising her.

@mariaevans5793

11 ай бұрын

True !!!!!🤗🇬🇧

@simonwarner-yu4tm

11 ай бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston As a footnote. OMD made the song Pandora's Box in the 1990s and showed clips from the film throughout the music video. If you haven't seen it then it's worth watching even if it's just for the song

"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" - Henri Langlois. I'm different from others because I fell in love with her back in 1980s in Richard Leacock's documentary that you shared in a clip. She was an old woman with bad teeth, anthric hands and a tattered bathrobe, but she was mesmerizing with her voice and facial and hand gestures. I saw "Pandora's Box" later and it was incredible. The camera really captured something special in her. I have only seen three female silent stars that had that quality: Louise, Marion Davies and Clara Bow.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

I agree there was something very special.

@Nstar365

11 ай бұрын

Something special,,she wasn't born female. That was in a news article years ago.

Absolutely agree she did her own thing , and to me she still remained beautiful in her later years.

I empathize with her struggles. She was incredibly resilient and courageous. Childhood trauma, including neglect, leaves one with great emotional pain. I’m glad she made peace with her mom 😊

It's hard not to love her when presented like this.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Certainly the most photogenic young woman ever.

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Agree!

She is absolutely stunning!

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

There is something haunting about her.

She was so intelligent. If you’ve read her film criticism, you’ll know she wasn’t simply recycling anecdotes from her movie hey-day or passing on old gossip. She had a very keen mind, a wicked sense of humour, and a gift for the telling phrase. In some ways she reminds me of the writer Jean Rhys, another woman who experienced childhood sexual abuse, a remote mother, unstable career, exploitative relationships, impulsive and self-defeating behaviour patterns, alcoholism, grey-area escort work, and decades of poverty and neglect -only to re-emerge from literary obscurity with her late novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ as a great, great author. Oh, and they even looked alike! (At least in their flapper finery and bobbed hairstyle).

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@emsnewssupkis6453

10 ай бұрын

all theater children are sexually abused.

She was one of my closest friends. I saw her weekly. She was funny and brilliant

I fell in love with Louise Brooks at age 15 her look is iconic and perfect. I am glad she passed knowing what a star she is

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

There is something unique about her.

What a MARVELOUS tribute!!! She was absolutely iconic with a timeless beauty! I admire her brave spirit to always adapt & bounce back. She definitely had conviction!

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Well said!

@pieterdutoit5997

11 ай бұрын

@professorgraemeyorston , Hello, HELLO there. I will definitely watch more of your wonderful documentaries. I am very much intrigued! I think that we can actually all learn from these talented individuals, they are an INSPIRATION to all of us. Their lives where not in vain & their legacy will live on!

She was a great beauty who had a look that transcends the styles that identify so many actresses as belonging to the 1920s. But I think it was her personality that also played a large part of her beauty, and I suspect she was far more interesting that she considered herself as being. Were she alive today and in Hollywood, she'd most likely be lighting up the movie screens. I'm so glad that there were people still interested enough in the 1950s to make it possible for the world to rediscover her, and for her to record at least parts of her life story and come to some place of peacefulness in her life.

@professorgraemeyorston

5 ай бұрын

Transcendent...the perfect word for her!

I've loved her since I was 16 in 1983. She was simultaneously the cutest actress of all time, and one of the most intelligent, fiercely independent and determined women in Hollywood at that time, a time that was especially hard for women - it's bad enough now. That was an amazing time, but there is so much that we now take for granted that just didn't exist then. Louise Brooks really shone a light on so much of what made it so hard for women, and she inspired so many to fight for what they deserve.

@professorgraemeyorston

7 ай бұрын

She is an inspiration.

Louise Brooks was both a legend and an icon. That’s very impressive given how long her acting career even lasted. She experienced the extreme highs and very lows that came with her way of conducting her life. She was very truthful when she wrote and talked about her Hollywood years. She sugar coated nothing which was a rarity in that time. Most actors played the role the studio forced themselves into no matter how old got. Like Gloria Swanson was *always* the forever movie star until she died. Even Joan Crawford once remarked people don’t want to see the girl next door but Joan Crawford the Movie Star. Louise Brooks did not play the Hollywood game like she was expected. She had a natural rebelliousness which led to her being both a head of her time but also a legendary icon of the late 20’s. No other actress of the time period epitomized the roaring twenties like Louise Brooks. She is the Roaring Twenties! 🎥🎬📽️🎞️

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@angelmarcano6747

11 ай бұрын

What's amazing about her in that. During the Roaring Twenties she was like in her late teens, and she was already well-known. The girls that are the same age as she was then couldn't hang with her intellectually or in any other way. And I'm talkin about the chuckleheads that are out now. Her and Tallulah Bankhead were sorta like.🙂

In my 20`s in the 80`s I knew nothing of Louse at all . One year a news paper gave a free calendar with pictures of remastered black/white 1920/30`s stars ... Bogart , Cagney ,Bergman etc amongst these was a a portrait of Louise ..... and I fell for her and I have never stopped being fond of her . Love you Lulu ❤💋

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

It's never too late for a bit of romance!

She was so ahead of her time. Utterly chic and stylish. Again a victim of the nasty double standards of her time.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

She was indeed.

What an awesome bio! And what a woman! To quote Frank Sinatra. She did it her way! One of the few actresses who was a strong woman who knew what she wanted and went after it without compromising herself like others to further her career! I gravitate towards people like her! She accepted her fate without feeling sorry for herself without blaming others for her downfall!

@larry1824

11 ай бұрын

Daring sexy brave. She lived her life how she wanted to live. An original indeed🎉🎉🎉🎉

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Kudos to you for telling this story so well. Her resilience is inspiring, and an example to all women who yearn to carve their own path. Before your video I knew Louise Brooks only by name and image.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Loved the 1920s-30s. Very fascinating era where she exists.

@professorgraemeyorston

8 ай бұрын

It was a time of huge change.

Anybody else struck by how . . . Contemporary she looks? She wouldn't look remotely out of place in 2023. I love Marilyn Monroe ~ who doesn't? ~ but even she looks like a beauty from another era. Can't quite put my finger on what I mean. She's fascinating.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree, is it something in her expression?

@AnnabelleCharrier

11 ай бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston Thanks so much for saying that Professor - yes, something in her expression! I don't want to say she looks "normal" but she appears so natural and at ease in front of the camera, like someone casually posing for a selfie (I myself actually hate taking selfies!) with an almost bored countenance. Not cynical or world weary but kind of, "Whatever!" It's lovely, whatever it is.

@hotmess9640

10 ай бұрын

Timeless beauty.

Loved Louise brooks she really was a trailblazer...May she be at peace .

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

She was indeed.

What an icon ❤ her work will educate and inspire. RIP Lulu x

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree I think her resilience is admirable.

Thank you, so many tragic stories about Hollywood, at least she never died young.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it was because she got out.

Such a lovely exploration of a talented, controversial woman ahead of her time. Thank you so much.

@professorgraemeyorston

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I can't explain mine and millions of other people's fascination with this actress who made only a handful of films but it is all consuming. When Miss Brooks is on the scene you can only look at her! She was the original " ballsey dame "

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree.

Thanks, an excellent account. I came across Louise Brooks as a result of an interest in German cinema. That an American girl from Kansas could have such a central role in some of the most iconic films of the Weimar period was amazing. I love the fact that she had the self respect to walk away from the Hollywood moguls who offered contracts for sex, something present day actresses should follow.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree!

Fascinating. Thank you for this wonderful presentation

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I have never known of Louise Brooks. A woman ahead of her time! She lived her life on her own terms. Impressive lady and so is your video!

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

This was so good. Thank you! She is so fascinating and one of the reasons I think she's captivating because I can see myself in her story. It's also a reminder that, eventually, we all will get old, and the young will then treat us with disrespect.

@professorgraemeyorston

Ай бұрын

Very true.

I'm impressed impressed impressed. I know now why I always loved this woman. She's a free spirit, her own human being. A lesson in true liberty of choice. I admire her. She touches me in all and every way possible.

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Well said.

What a woman - beautiful, talented, intelligent and way before her time. So impressed by her insightfulness and awareness of not only other people and their motives but also her own inner workings too, with the bravery to talk about it so openly in a time when women were still encouraged to keep things to themselves. I think I might need to keep a photo of her by my desk too now 😊

@professorgraemeyorston

8 ай бұрын

She was indeed!

Thank you for introducing me to this interesting person, I only knew the name Louise Brooks but nothing else, her writing sounds like a lot of fun.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

She was a real character!

@BeanieScooter

8 ай бұрын

Her book is fascinating!

Very well done documentary on Ms. Brooks. She’ll always be a trailblazer in my book 🥰

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, mine too.

Wow, what a fascinating figure. Thank you for the research and presenting this.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

Such a wonderful, well-made video with plenty of intriguing photos, video footage, and a voice over playing the part of Louise! Well done!

@professorgraemeyorston

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

She was absolutely gorgeous who lived life as she wanted and wouldn't be controlled by the Studios A Free Spirit before the word was coined

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark did a wonderful tribute to her in their song Pandora's Box fyi.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Great song.

Outstanding doc of an astonishingly beautiful woman and brilliant actress.

@professorgraemeyorston

Ай бұрын

That she was!

Thank you for this episode on resilience. It is a quality we could all cultivate within ourselves.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

I agree, the world could do with a little more resilience these days!

I also had an image of Louise Brooks in my rooms at college. I still have it framed in the powder room!

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Glad I wasn't the only one!

She didn't take part in the casting couch intimidation. She was quite literally Stunning.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

She had a lot of relationships, but always on her terms.

This was a brilliant insight into her life. Clearly done with genuine respect. Thank you for this video.

@professorgraemeyorston

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure, thank you.

This was amazing. Thank you!!

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

louise brooks : "i don't belong anywhere ... to anyone ... to anything " (1964)

I learned of Louise from an Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark song "Pandora's Box" - thanks for this.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Great song.

Thank you. She deserves a biopic. Her story is incredible. She remains influential to this day, yet so many have no idea that she is the source of the styles, attitudes, and behavior that they adopt. This also helped me personally. I better understand now why my attempts to have a relationship long ago with a “Brooks” like woman was doomed to fail.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree, she would make a great subject for a biopic.

Yes, she was beautiful and a modern face and hairstyle was perfect for her!

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree.

I really enjoyed this. I’ve heard of her, but didn’t know anything about her. A woman ahead of her time.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

A splendid presentation!! Such a beauteous icon of film history.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

THAT WAS FASCINATING!!!! It made me go back and look at my grandmothers school class photo from 1931 (age 15) and realize Louise Brooks influence because my grandmother along with several other girls in the picture have their hair done exactly like all those glamour shots of Louise Brooks 😮😮I never knew

@professorgraemeyorston

9 ай бұрын

Her influence was far reaching indeed.

She is stunning. I really enjoyed it Prof. Yorston.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I agree!

Interesting video. She is a top actress of classic cinema, but at the same time she had a modern look.

Fantastic work. In 19 minutes you gave a really satisfying bio of someone I always knew of but never her work. And really nice editing! I'm really looking forward to watching her films with Pabst. Thanks so much for this! (I'll keep my finders crossed that you've done a piece on Francis Farmer....)

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I haven't done one yet, but she's on the list.

What an interesting documentary about someone I'd vaguely heard about previously. For me, her spirited independence and refusal to sleep her way to the top were her greatest assets. I think in her later years, her mental health problems may have been caused, in part, by abandonment by her previously so called friends, who didn't share her more worldly views about the way life should be lived - on her own terms and not someone elses - that way lays regret and I doubt that she had many of those. Admirable woman, not to mention quite the icon too.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I will now admit….. I have been binge watching your channel since I discovered it just a couple of days ago. Brilliant telling of many compelling stories. Thank you!

A fascinating, well researched, and sympathetic portrayal! Thank you!

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

That she resisted the "casting couch" makes her a Hollywood legend alone.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Well said!

Just reading her biography. Fascinating

@professorgraemeyorston

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

Wonderful video. Thank you.

@professorgraemeyorston

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Louise Brooks is so underrated, I don't know where to start.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I agree.

Thank you for sharing.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Very well done. The first bio I've seen about her. Her images captivated me when I first saw them. And after hearing about her life story she captivates me even more.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you - the films are well worth a watch!

What a beautiful woman❤

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

She was indeed.

Well done thank you so much

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure.

Can't believe I've only just come across this channel. Wonderful subject. Your presentation is outstanding. Thank you

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Thanks so much. This was fascinating. I’ve been a Louise fan for decades.

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, me too!

Thank you!!!

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Very Good Show, Thank You.

@professorgraemeyorston

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

❤a wonderful video essay on Louise.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Amazing. So glad to have found your video. Relatable and inspiring.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Brilliant ! Enjoyed this very much.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Beautiful presentation !

Thank you for this essential portrait that makes us clamour for more! By chance I found Leacock's interviews on KZread, which led to me watching Pandora's Box while on holiday in India! What an intelligent, gracious woman

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Glad it inspired you to find out more.

Since I have learned about Louise Brooks I feel touched by an angel. B. Paris wrote a delightful biography on her well worth a read.

@professorgraemeyorston

8 ай бұрын

It is a great biography.

Fabulous video.

You tell a story so wonderfully Professor. 💕

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Great telling of her Life ,kept my interest . She reminded me of Collen Moore ,who influenced whom .

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Interesting question - I know Louise had bobbed hair from childhood, but she didn't keep hers, whereas Colleen did.

Well done and very interesting about her life ...need more

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

I'm working as fast as I can!

Great channel

I feel sorry for Louise that, not only did Louise's mother (Myra) ignore her, Myra made matters way worse by blaming Louise for the child abuse that Louise suffered. It was genuinely evil of Myra to do this and it was so damaging that it is a wonder that Louise was as functional as she was in life.

@professorgraemeyorston

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I'm sure it would have set up a lot of difficult issues.

I totally get her.❤ Thanks

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Really enjoyed this.will be back for more.she was before her time.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Wonderful thank you for your effort❤

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for your interesting documentary I enjoyed it very much.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Excellent content and presentation, thank you

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Thank you! I think that Louise Brooks was one of brighter lights of (very) Old Hollywood. I liked Clara Bow too (the "It" girl, "Wings") Clara had an ultimately sad end.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it - yes Clara Bow is another potential subject for my channel.

Timeless beauty. Thank you for sharing her story. Certainly nothing wrong with her voice on talkies! I visit her non-descript grave site at the Holy Sepulchre cemetery every time I visit family in Rochester and leave a rose. Her book is wonderful.

@professorgraemeyorston

8 ай бұрын

It's nice that someone is still giving her roses.

A fantastic bio. Well done. Only five days ago, I did a Facebook posting about what The Who song “Pictures of Lilly” means to me. It seems that we are both similarly moved by ghostly images on our TV and on our wall. You have your “Lilly”, and I have mine - Edna Purviance. I wonder who Pete Townsend’s “Lilly” was.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Great video! I have always loved Louise Brooks. *

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

Thanks for this Graeme, i knew louise from the many pics of her but never actually knew her name. She was a fascinating lady.

@professorgraemeyorston

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure.

Great vid. Louise has timeless beauty.

@professorgraemeyorston

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I agree.

Well Done Sir