Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition
by Louise Brooks
List Price:
Our Price: $12.81
You Save: $7.14 (36%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $9.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Louise BrooksEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-07-10
ISBN: 0816637318
Number of pages: 184
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Book Reviews of Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition
Book Review: A beauty unparalleled in film history
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a collection of Brooks's autobiographical essays together with an interview by Kenneth Tynan.
It shows a Louise Brooks as a fiercely independent character, as well as her failure as a social creature, because of her open critic of people's false faces.
But at what price? She survives as a kept woman by three lovers and ends in poverty, rejected and lonely.
She characterizes her work in Hollywood's film factory as slavery and throws a shrill light on Hollywood's morals (the casting couch) and cynicism: the end of the silent period served as an excuse to terminate all contracts.
The all important feature of her life was sex, not love: 'I have never been in love.' But, 'A person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts ... It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.'
She considers that 'the most fateful encounter in my life' was a sexual one with George Preston Marshall.
Nevertheless, she had some regrets: 'How often do we change the whole course of our lives in pursuit of a love that we will have forgotten within a few months.'
She never wrote her biography because 'I am unwilling to write the sexual truth that would make up my life worth reading.'
Barry PARIS did it for her, admirably. His book contains also a few corrections on Louise Brooks's statements in her book.
A moving text with admirable pictures.
Theater Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Theater Books
Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural WorldMacmillan Pub Co; Published: 1995-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $110.85
Directors on Directing: A Source Book of the Modern Theatreby Toby Cole, Helen Krich Chinoy
Allyn & Bacon; Published: 1963-01-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $92.40
Price in other shops:
Voice and the Actorby Cicely Berry
Wiley; Published: 1991-07-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
A Trip to the Light Fantastic: Travels With a Mexican Circusby Katie Hickman
Harpercollins; Published: 1995-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.00
Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? An Autobiographyby Tom Baker
Harper Collins, 1997; Published: 1997; Hardcover; Book
Who on Earth Is Tom Baker?by Tom Baker
Harpercollins Audio; Published: 1997-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $133.82
Streisand: A Biographyby Anne Edwards
Little Brown & Co (T); Published: 1997-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.79
Price in other shops:
The Orton Diariesby Joe Orton
Da Capo Press; Published: 1996-08-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.48
Price in other shops:
Understanding Movies (12th Edition)by Louis Giannetti
Allyn & Bacon; Published: 2010-01-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $79.03
Price in other shops:
The Theater Experience Tenth Editionby Edwin Wilson
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Published: 2005-12-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $50.00
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Starby Roland Jaccard, Louise Brooks
Olympic Marketing Corp; Published: 1986-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $50.00
Prix de BeauteKino International; Release date: 2006-03-07; DVD
Best price: $15.60
Price in other shops:
The Actors: Rare Films Of Louise Brooks Vol.2Release date: 2009-12-28; DVD
Best price: $16.99
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modernby Joshua Zeitz
Broadway; Published: 2007-02-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.50
Price in other shops:
The Actors: Rare Films Of Louise Brooks Vol.3Release date: 2009-12-28; DVD
Best price: $16.99
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wildby David Stenn
Cooper Square Press; Published: 2000-03-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.73
Price in other shops:
The Actors: Rare Films Of Louise Brooks Vol.1Release date: 2009-12-28; DVD
Best price: $16.99
Diary of a Lost GirlKino International; Release date: 2001-11-13; DVD
Best price: $16.48
Price in other shops:
Louise Brooks: A Biographyby Barry Paris
Univ Of Minnesota Press; Published: 2000-07-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.40
Price in other shops:
Pandora's Box (The Criterion Collection)Image Entertainment; Release date: 2006-11-28; DVD
Best price: $20.99
Price in other shops: