Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...

How does a director best cull a performance from an actor? One Austrian filmmaker, G.W. Pabst, encouraged enmity and distance on the set in the hopes that his players would bring a concomitant ...

Louise Brooks was already a celebrity and sex symbol by the time she made "Pandora's Box" in the late 1920s. With her sultry looks, piercing eyes, influential bob hairdo and reputation for being ...