Louise Brooks - Silent Movies Star
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Today we are reviewing a site about one of the great characters from the time of the silent movies: Louise Brooks. She is well known for her participation in the german silent movie Pandora’s Box where she played the role of Lulu.
Have a look at the image at the left and notice Louise’s characteristic haircut.
This site is called after her most famous movie: pandorasbox.com and is a nice site without any ads from google or other sponsors. This alone is very rare to find in the internet of the beginning 21st century where almost every site now serves as a surface for publicity.
But the site is not only ad-free, it is very comfortable to surf. It includes a biography of Louise and a chronology of her work in about 38 movies from the silent movie era. It also includes a huge amount of photographs of the movie star, ordered by shooting sessions which offer a good impression of the age of beginning cinematography. Louise’s outstanding beauty was captured by many of the leading photographers of her time: George P. Homme, Edward Thayer Monroe, Otto Dyar, Alfred Cheney Johnston, Edward Steichen, James Abbe and Nickolas Muray. Here you can see examples of their work.
We enjoyed visiting this site and our webspectors agree to rate it with 5 of 5 stars for it’s simplicity which doesn’t mean poorness.
