HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SILENT MOVIE STAR LOUISE BROOKS DIED ON AUGUST 8,1985
HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS SILENT MOVIE STAR LOUISE BROOKS DIED ON AUGUST 8,1985 Overview (5) Date of Birth 14 November 1906 , Cherryvale, Kansas, USA Date of Death 8 August 1985 , Rochester, New York, USA (heart attack) Birth Name Mary Louise Brooks Nicknames Lulu Brooksie Scrubbie Height 5' 2" (1.57 m) Mini Bio (3) 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 performan...