Volume 29, Number 16 · October 21, 1982
Pandora's Box
By Sara Laschever
Lulu in Hollywood
by Louise Brooks
Knopf, 109 pp., $15.00
During the switch from silent movies to sound in 1928, a number of film studios refused to grant promised raises to their stars, ostensibly because they didn't know which performers' voices would be suitable for talking films. Most stars, even the biggest, didn't protest, but one young actress at Paramount exercised her option to quit, and walked out. The actress was Louise Brooks, a twenty-two-year-old, five-foot-two-inch-tall former dancer, whose relaxed, natural acting style, distinctive shiny black hair, and extraordinary beauty had already propelled her well on the way toward being a star.
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