Secondly, she is one of the very few American actors who is successful for her work in Europe. Pabst, Die Busche der Pandora ( Pandora’s Box, 1929) and Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen ( Diary of a Lost Girl, 1929) and one directed by Augusto Genina, Prix de beauté ( Beauty Prize, 1930) – were largely ignored or disliked on release, and her performances in them were poorly reviewed at the time yet these films, most notably Pandora’s Box, were to be championed years later by some of the world’s most influential film critics and theorists. Ultimately there are three things that make Brooks particularly interesting: firstly, that her most important films – two directed by G.W. In many ways this is because she is one of the most complex, contradictory, subversive and seemingly reluctant film stars who, by her own admission, hated Hollywood, was bored by film-making, did not know how to act, never bothered reading scripts, and never watched her own films. Brooks was and still remains not only one of the most interesting stars of the silent screen, but one of the most interesting stars of all time. On August the 8 th of this year it will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Louise Brooks. Brooks’ friend, the film historian Kevin Brownlow, puts things more kindly: “Louise Brooks was not one of the important stars of the silent era … ut of all the personalities of that era, Louise Brooks has emerged most triumphantly.” (2) What Cukor could not understand is how she got to be somebody, how her personality managed to emerge triumphant, and that is the subject of this article, the post factum creation of the film star Louise Brooks. However, she is certainly somebody today she has become something in films.

What’s all this fuss about her?” (1) A harsh verdict, but Cukor was right for as far as America, Hollywood and the big studios were concerned, Louise Brooks was a nobody. Cukor responsed: “Louise Brooks? What’s all this talk about Louise Brooks? She was nobody. During the course of an interview with the film director George Cukor, the interviewer mentioned Louise Brooks.

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