The many photographic images shown in this film highlight Brooks' life and career as a girl growing up in small-town Kansas, as a Denishawn dancer (she danced alongside Martha Graham!), as a showgirl with the Ziegfeld Follies in 1920's New York, as a bobbed-hair flapper in a handful of American silent films, as Lulu - an innocent femme fatale murdered by Jack the Ripper in her most famous film - the now classic German production Pandora's Box, and later in life, as an essayist and author of the bestselling book, "Lulu in Hollywood." "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" features numerous film clips some of them rare, including Brooks' first appearance in a movie, her first part in a talkie, and her last film, a low budget Western with John Wayne. Louise Brooks (1906 1985) was incredibly photogenic some have claimed her to be one of the most beautiful actresses of all time. And director Hugh Munro Neely has fashioned a well-researched, balanced and finely documented study of this 20th century icon. Barry Paris (author of the definitive biography of the actress) has written a masterful, sympathetic script. It is one of the best film documentaries I have ever seen. "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" is an exceptionally well-crafted and emotionally moving documentary.
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