Louise BrooksFilmography

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Overland Stage Raiders

Actors: John Wayne, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Louise Brooks, Anthony Marsh

Synopsis: The "Three Mesquiteers"--John Wayne, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune--find themselves in the modern-day west in Overland Stage Raiders. The "stages" being raided are actually Greyhound buses, bearing gold shipments to the east. Airborne hijackers steal the gold, but the Mesquiteers vanquish the Read More

The Three Mesquiteers: Overland Stage Raiders

King of Gamblers

Actors: Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Helen Burgess

Synopsis: Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wall until he meets nightclub singer Claire Trevor. Trevor is anxious to avenge the death of her Read More

Empty Saddles

Actors: Buck Jones, Louise Brooks, Harvey Clark, Charles B. Middleton, Frank Campeau

Synopsis: Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn it into a profitable dude ranch, drifter Buck Devlin (Buck Jones) purchases the Ranch of Empty Saddles, the former site of a bloody war between cattle ranchers and sheep Read More

When You're in Love

Actors: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis: In this tuneful, romantic drama, an Australian opera star (Grace Moore) wants to perform in a major U.S. festival but cannot enter the country unless she is married. To this end, she hires a handsome artist (Cary Grant) temporarily marry her. At first it is all strictly business, but in time, the Read More

God's Gift to Women

Actors: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger, Louise Brooks

Synopsis: God's Gift to Women demonstrated conclusively that Warner Bros. would never make a movie star out of Broadway comedian Frank Fay. Portraying a most unlikely Frenchman, Fay pitches woo at every beautiful woman in sight, but falls in love with none of them. When Cupid genuinely strikes him for the Read More

It Pays to Advertise

Actors: Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy It Pays to Advertise stars comedienne Carol Lombard in one of her early Paramount talkies. Rodney Martin (Norman Foster) is the son of wealthy soap manufacturer Cyrus Read More

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

Synopsis: Windy Riley (Jack Shutta) is a hapless New Yorker who ends up stranded in Los Angeles without a car, the latter having been involved in an accident with the limo of a top studio executive (Dell Henderson) -- to pay off the damage, he's forced to work at the studio in the worst job they can find Read More

Prix De Beauté

Actors: Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Gaston Jacquet, A. Nicolle, Jean Bradin

Synopsis: The French Prix de Beaute stars cult figure Louise Brooks as a nondescript typist for a Parisian newspaper. On a whim, Brooks submits her photograph to the Miss France Contest. To everyone's amazement--and her boyfriend Andre's (Georges Charlia) displeasure--she wins the contest, and is sucked Read More

Diary of a Lost Girl

Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Josef Ravensky, Franziska Kinz

Synopsis: German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the Read More

Pandora's Box

Actors: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Alice Roberts

Synopsis: German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful Louise Brooks as libertine dancer Lulu. Ever out for the "main chance," Lulu persuades her wealthy lover Dr. Schön (Fritz Kortner) to marry her. But in a fit of jealous rage, he Read More

The Canary Murder Case

Actors: William Powell, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it centers upon a conniving "canary" (a nightclub singer) who takes on wealthy lovers and then blackmails them into giving her money. If they don't cooperate, she will tell Read More

Beggars of Life

Actors: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Blue Washington, H.A. Morgan

Synopsis: Wallace Beery appeared in this silent film with intertitles, a dark drama of hobo life. Jim (Richard Arlen), a wanderer, comes upon young Nancy (Louise Brooks), who has just killed the guardian who was trying to rape her. Disguised as a boy, she takes off with Jim and rides the rails to a hobo Read More

A Girl in Every Port

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Casajuana, Dorothy Mathews, Sally Rand, Natalie Joyce

Synopsis: The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director Howard Hawks will be delighted. Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong play Spike and Salami, two sailors who become close pals but only after dukeing it out over a dame. Read More

Rolled Stockings

Actors: James Hall, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Nancie Phillips, El Brendel

Synopsis: Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks). While carefree older Read More

Love 'em and Leave 'em

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Louise Brooks, Lawrence Gray, Osgood Perkins, Marcia Harris

Synopsis: Based on a play by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em stars Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks as sisters in competition over the affections of Lawrence Gray. One sister covers for the other when a large amount of money is stolen, but her selflessness is rewarded when "bad" sis Read More

Evening Clothes

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Valli, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Brooks, Lido Manetti

Synopsis: It stands to reason that the sartorially splendid Adolphe Menjou would star in a picture called Evening Clothes. At the beginning of the film, however,Menjou is crude, shabbily dressed French farmer Lucien D'Artois. Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine (Virginia Valli) marries D'Artois Read More

The City Gone Wild

Actors: Fred Kohler, Thomas Meighan, Louise Brooks, Charles Hill Mailes, Wyndham Standing

Synopsis: Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney. Meighan's integrity is compromised when he falls in love with Louise Brooks, the "moll" of gang boss Fred Kohler. Brooks steals the show from Meighan and Kohler Read More

Now We're in the Air

Actors: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Louise Brooks, Russell Simpson, Emile Chautard

Synopsis: During the late '20s, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton made a series of comedies for Paramount. Although the studio hyped them quite a bit, there was nothing really special about the pairing, and the two actors (Beery especially) had better success apart in the long run. This picture was made Read More

The Show-Off

Actors: Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly

Synopsis: This first film version of George Kelly's stage comedy The Show Off stars former Keystone Kop Ford Sterling in the title role. Though he's only a thirty-dollar-a-week clerk, Aubrey Piper (Sterling) is an incorrigible braggart, brimming full of grandiose get-rich-quick schemes. Quickly ingratiating Read More

The American Venus

Actors: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Louise Brooks

Synopsis: The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty contests gets under way when two competing cosmetic companies seek the endorsement of the winner of the American Venus pageant (Ralston, of course). Complication ensue when it Read More

It's the Old Army Game

Actors: W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy

Synopsis: W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue The Comic Supplement. Described in the opening title as "the epic of the American druggist," the story begins late one night, in the apothecary shop of Elmer Prettywillie (Fields Read More

A Social Celebrity

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks, Elsie Lawson, Roger Davis, Hugh Huntley

Synopsis: Originally, Louise Brooks was only supposed to have a supporting role in this comedy-drama starring Adolphe Menjou. Partway through filming, however, Menjou's co-star Greta Nissen dropped out and Brooks' role was rewritten and expanded. It was only her third film. Menjou is Max Haber, a barber in Read More

Girl From Coney Island

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Louise Brooks, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Also released as Just Another Blonde, The Girl From Coney Island stars Dorothy Mackaill as the title character. The star plays Jeanne Cavanaugh, one of the more popular hostesses at a Luna Park dance emporium. Gambling-hall employee Kid Scotty (William Collier Jr.) announces to one and all that he Read More

Street of Forgotten Men

Actors: Percy Marmont, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, John Harrington, Juliet Brenon

Synopsis: This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery saloon where, in a back room, men disguise themselves as cripples so they can beg for money. Their leader is Easy Money Charlie (Percy Marmont), who pretends to have only one Read More