Silent Movies
Louise Brooks
The Diary of a Lost Girl is the second movie Louise Brooks made after leaving Hollywood for the Weimar Cinema of 1920's Germany. It is regarded as a classic of early German cinema. The story is about a young girl who gets pregnant after being raped, but won't name the father. However, a friend finds her diary, in which she names the father, her father, who dismissed a maid for being pregnant by him, tells her to save face she must marry the child's father, but she says she has no feelings for him.
She is thrown out of the house, and ends up in a reform school. After escaping, she is taken in as "a lady of liesure," deciding this is not right she decides to teach dance lessons, Louise was a dancer in earlier times.
The story ends with her marrying the man she loves, inheriting her father's money, and giving it to her sister. She later becomes a govenor on the board of the reform school she was in.
She was told by the film's director, if she returned to Hollywood, she would be like her role, and for many years she was a "kept lady."
Ms. Brooks was her own worst enemy, when she returned to Hollywood, she turned down the opportunity to be the voice of her character in a William Powell movie. Not long after, she turned down the role which made Jean Harlow a star, in the James Cagney film, Public Enemy, after that she vanished.
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