The Louise Brooks Society is an internet resource - an online

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devoted to the

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Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helpe ...

(1906–1985). The Louise Brooks Society, or LBS, was started in 1995 and launched on the web that same year. The stated goals of the LBS are to promote a greater awareness of the life and films of the celebrated actress, dancer, and writer. The site's online archive contains some 200 pages of material – including extensive bibliographies, a filmography, a chronology, commentary, vintage articles, memorabilia, portrait galleries, links, and contributions from individuals from around the world. The LBS bibliographies are its primary contribution to a growing body of scholarship concerning the actress. The LBS also has a long-running

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, as well as its own online radio station, RadioLulu (which was part of

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). Both were launched in 2002. The LBS has helped bring both the

Barry Paris Barry Paris (born February 6, 1948) is an author and journalist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paris' best-known works include biographies of film stars Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn. He is a movie reviewer for the ''Pittsbur ...

biography of the actress and Louise Brooks' own book, '' Lulu in Hollywood'', back into print through the University of Minnesota Press. It is so credited in each edition. The society has also contributed material to various books published around the world, mounted an exhibit at the

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and elsewhere, co-sponsored events including screenings and lectures, "inspired" the documentary ''Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu'', and helped generated media interest in the actress. The society has also published three books, the "Louise Brooks edition" of Margarete Bohme's ''The Diary of a Lost Girl'' in 2010, and ''Beggars of Life: A Companion to the 1928 Film'' and ''Now We're the Air,'' both in 2017. The efforts of the LBS has been written about in newspapers and magazines around the world including ''

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''. In 2005, at the time of its 10th anniversary, the film historian

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praised the LBS on his website.Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

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