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").