A girl in every port

 Louise Brooks

Passport Romancer

                                                       I only have eyes for you

This is the last film Louise Brooks was in during her Hollywood days, before she left for Germany, to become a star of the Weimar Cinema.

The story is about two sailors who have a competion who can "chat up" the most girls, until one falls for Ms. Brooks.

I am not saying, I could have had a lady in every port, but I had lots of requests from mature ladies to meet me, some were adamant they wished for sex.

There is only one lady I am interested in, she is Svitlana, my friend in Oxfordshire, and she knows that.

Pandora's box

 Early German Cinema

Louise Brooks

Silent Movies

Louise Brooks's first silent movie for the Weimar Cinema, could have been written about her. The main character is a lady who has several lovers, even if she only plays with their affections. When the film finished, the director warned her, if she didn't embrace "talkies," she would end up like her character, a "kept woman." 

This warning was ignored as Louise turned roles down, one was being the voice of her character being dubbed to the film of "The Canary Murder case," with William Powell. Another role that damaged her career was the role later played by Jean Harlow in "Public Enemy," a role that made Ms. Harlow a star

The Diary of a Lost Girl

Early German Cinema

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.