Hi! I’m Princess
Tatiana, peeking in from So Not A Princess. I’m thrilled to be given the
privilege of writing for Nancy’s lovely blog while she is off gallivanting
abroad.
Long a favourite of
mine, Louise Brooks was a star from the silent era, most famous for her role as
Lulu in Pandora’s Box
(1929), directed by the German G.W. Pabst. In it she plays the quintessential
young flapper, and is everything you imagine a flapper to be: fast and flighty;
pretty, dangerous – and doomed; a romantic and tragic figure.
In life she was that: rebellious, difficult, notorious for her salty language, a spendthrift, alcoholic, sexually liberated; and eventually blacklisted by Hollywood. But for all that she is utterly mesmerising: an ‘amazing personality’ with a dazzling smile; ‘kind and generous to her friends almost to a fault’ according to her biographers. And of course there is her bobbed hairstyle: iconic long before anyone was asking for the ‘Aniston’.
“Since I never learned to act, I never had any trouble playing myself.” – Louise Brooks
