All All. Sign In. Best French Actress in a Leading Role The seven best performances of actresses French or foreign, by year , who played in films mainly French. Some films are foreign productions shot in French with French actress and French, but with major foreign actress original.
List activity. Louise Brooks. Actress Pandora's Box Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the Midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, She began dancing at an early age with the Denishawn Dancers which was how she left Kansas and went to New York and then with George White's Scandals before joining the Ziegfeld Follies, but became one of the most fascinating and alluring personalities ever to grace the silver screen.
She was always compared to her Lulu role in Pandora's Box , which was filmed in Her performances in A Girl in Every Port and Beggars of Life , both filmed in , proved to all concerned that Louise had real talent.
She became known, mostly, for her bobbed hair style. Thousands of women were attracted to that style and adopted it as their own. As you will note by her photographs, she was no doubt the trend setter of the s with her Buster Brown-Page Boy type hair cut, much like today's women imitate stars.
Because of her dark haired look and being the beautiful woman that she was, plus being a modern female, she was not especially popular among Hollywood's clientele. She just did not go along with the norms of the film society. Louise really came into her own when she left Hollywood for Europe. There she appeared in a few German productions which were very well made and continued to prove she was an actress with an enduring talent.
