LOUISE BROOKS IN DENMARK

Interview with Louise Brooks by Vibeke Brodersen, when she was in Copenhagen on The Danish Filmmuseum in the winter 1957.
appears in Kosmorama vol. 4. no. 31. december 1957 s. 88-90 Louise in Denmark

Louise Brooks travelled with James Card to Europe in November 1957. The first stop was Copenhagen, where Card's good friend Ove Brusendorff (1909-1986) was director of the Danish Film Museum. Ib Monty, Brusendorff's young assistant then, now the museum's director, recalls the lady and her visit:

I remember her as a hard-boiled, fast-talking, fast-drinking, fast-smoking "American" type. I couldn't catch up with her. She has this drinking problem, I know, because Brusendorff had a bottle of Danish schnapps called Akvavit, and she got angry every time Card discreetly removed the bottle. "Don't do that, Jim!" He had a fatherly attitude - I think he was concerned about her condition and was trying to see that she wouldn't be drunk and cause a scandal. She was always chain-smoking ... And you couldn't flatter her. Other stars I have met, they want to please and say the right thing. She didn't have that attitude at all. To a young man like me, she was rather frightening. This was a woman of the world, she had a tough life, she'd been through a lot, she had no illusions ... We were all in love with this picture of Louise Brooks, and then suddenly you see her 25 years later, and she was totally changed. That is a banal impression, I know. But with someone like Claudette Colbert, for example, you could see her and follow her life and she didn't really change. But with Louise Brooks, it was as if she turned into another personality completely.
(Ib Monty to Barry Paris, Copenhagen, march 30, 1987)

Every one of the Danish Film Museum's two dozen photos of Louise in Copenhagen shows her with a drink, a cigarette, or both, and usually a sullen glare as well.

Ib Monty reviews of James Card book Seductive Cinema (1994) appears in Kosmorama vol. 41 no. 211, spring 1995 p. 42-43 : with to photographies from Louise Brooks visit in Copenhagen 1957.

Ib Monty talks about Louise Brooks an interview: Real Audio file (307 kb) on danish, translated into english here

Read Richard Whitehall article "The flapper, Colleen Moore, Louise Brooks and the flaming youth of the Twenties" (from CINEMA, december 1966 (California)) about Louise Brooks as a flapper girl (text in danish): KLIK HERE

LOUISE BROOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY
all the titles are available in Denmark.
 

LOUISE BROOKS FILMOGRAPHY
with danish titels. sources Brusendorff : Filmen  (Copenhagen, 1936-39) and the Danish Filmmuseums Archive.

The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) in a bit part. d: Herbert Brenon.

The American Venus (1926) as Miss Bayport. d: Frank Tuttle.
Den amerikanske venus. Danish premiere: Det lille Teater, june 12. 1926.

A Social Celebrity (1926) as Kitty Laverne. d: Malcolm St. Clair.
I laante fjer
Storfyrstinden og hendes kammertjener

It's the Old Army Game (1926) as Mildred Marsha (Marilyn Sheridan). d: Edward Sutherland.

The Show-off (1926) as Clara, Joe's girl. d: Malcolm St. Clair.

Just Another Blonde (1926) as Diana O'Sullivan. d: Alfred Santell.
Den blonde fare. Danish premiere: Metropol, may 15. 1927.

Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) as Janie Walsh. d: Frank Tuttle.

Evening Clothes (1927) as Fox-Trot. d: Luther Reed.
I kjole og hvidt. Danish premiere: Kinografen, october 22. 1928

Rolled Stockings (1927) as Carol Fleming. d: Richard Rosson.

The City Gone Wild (1927) as Snuggles Joy, Gallegher's girl. d: James Gruze.
Storstadens svøbe! Danish premiere: Colosseum, april 30. 1928

Now We're in the Air (1927) as Griselle Chelaine and Grisette Chelaine. d: Frank Strayer.

A Girl in Every Port (1928) as Mam'selle Godiva, Marie. d: Howard Hawks.
En Pige i hver Havn. Danish premiere: september 10. 1928.

Beggars of Life (1928) as Nancy (the girl). d: William Wellman.
De Lovløses Tog. Danish premiere: june 3. 1929.

The Canary Murder Case (1928) as The Canary. d: Malcolm St. Clair.
Hvem dræbte Margaret O'Dell?

Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora's Box (1929) as Lulu. d: G. W. Pabst.

Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen/Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) as Thymian. d: G. W. Pabst.

Prix de Beaute (1930) as Lucienne Garnier. d: Augusto Genina

Windy Riley Goes to Hollywood (1931) 2-reel comedy, as Betty Grey. d: William Goodrich, i.e. Roscoe Arbuckle.

It Pays to Advertise (1931) as Thelma Temple. d: Frank Tuttle.

God's Gift to Women (1931) as Florine. d: Michael Curtiz

Empty Saddles (1936) as Boots Boone. d: Lesley Selander.
Cowboyens "hvilehjem". Danish premiere: Vesterbro, may 15. 1939.

When You're in Love (1937) dancing in chorus. d: Robert Riskin
Serenade. Danish premiere: march 29. 1937.

King of Gamblers (1937) in a bit part. d: Robert Florey
Storbyens sjakaler. Danish premiere: november 10. 1937.

Overland Stage Raiders (1938) as Beth Hoyt. d: George Sherman.

The Danish Filmmuseum Program
1985

Cover stories in danish magazines:
Ugebladet  may 25 1926
Ugebladet  june 27 1926
 

Postcard made in Denmark:
1. Danish postcard
2. Danish postcard was published in Copenhagen by J. Chr. Kunstforlag in the 1920s. It measures approximately 8½ x 13½ cm (3" x 5").