1920s Silent Film Flapper Louise Brooks German Real Photo RPPC Postcard Fine
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ITEM: This is a 1920s vintage and original real photo postcard (RPPC) produced by Verlag Studio, Berlin and featuring silent film star and flapper icon Louise Brooks. Pictured sporting her iconic bobbed haircut and clutching a hand fan to her bare chest, Brooks is the epitome of Roaring Twenties style and attitude. This postcard is unposted and is a tremendous Jazz Age era collectible!
There is no single person who captures the spirit of the Jazz Age quite like Louise Brooks. A fashion, style, and cultural trendsetter, Brooks found a place in every important part of roaring twenties culture. From the "Lost Generation" expatriate communities of Europe to modern dance to avant-garde & popular Hollywood silent films. Even today, the striking black bob and expressionless gaze of Louise Brooks can bee seen on t-shirts, in fashion magazines, and in every generic "flapper" costume worn at Halloween. The iconic cult star's enduring popularity and her scandalous and brief career in film mean that vintage portraits of Brooks are hard to come by.
Measures 3.5" x 5.5"
CONDITION: Fine+, postally unused condition with very nominal storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Mary Louise Brooks, also known by her childhood name of Brooksie, was born in the midwestern town of Cherryvale, Kansas, on November 14, 1906. 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 (1929), which was filmed in 1928. Her performances in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and Beggars of Life (1928), both filmed in 1928, 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 1920s 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 clientle. 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. Until she ended her career in film in 1938, she had made only 25 movies. After that, she spent most of her time reading and painting. She also became an accomplished writer, authoring a number of books, including her autobiography. On August 8, 1985, Louise died of a heart attack in Rochester, New York. She was 78 years old.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson
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