Major Achievements/Accomplishments/Successes and Failures
- During an interview with film director George Cukor, the interviewer mentioned Louise Brooks. Cukor responsed: “Louise Brooks? What’s all this talk about Louise Brooks? She was nobody. She was a nothing in films. What’s all this fuss about her?” A harsh verdict, but Cukor was right; for as far as America, Hollywood and the big studios were concerned, Louise Brooks was a nobody. However, she is certainly somebody today; she has become something in films. The film historian Kevin Brownlow, puts things more kindly: “Louise Brooks was not one of the important stars of the silent era, but of all the personalities of that era, Louise Brooks has emerged most triumphantly.”
- Throughout her life Brooks was in 47 films, although she was most known for her roles in Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, Miss Europe, and Beggars of Life.