Louise
Brooks
1906-1985
Louise
Brooks started as a dancer with Ziegield Follies, and then became
a movie star. She popularized the bob hairstyle among flapper
culture. After limited success and multiple relationships, her
career in Hollywood stalled, so she packed up and moved to
Europe, where
the freer artistic environment allowed her more success. She
returned to the US in 1929.
When her
career finally crashed, it crashed hard, and she worked during the
Great Depression as a call girl.
Finally, beginning around 1955, film critics acquired a new
appreciation of her work, and she reinvented herself as a
well-regarded film
essayist.
How lesbian/bisexual was she?
She
refused the labels, but she freely admitted to relationships with
both men and women, including a two-month affair with Charlie Chaplin
and a one-night stand with Greta Garbo,
whom she described as a
"charming and tender lover", but she had a "clear preference
for men".
Note on the Illustration:
As
it turns out, I didn't need to manufacture an AI nude of her (right) since there are already
plenty of authentic nudes of her out there. (below)
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