louise brooks 1979

6 responses to “louise brooks 1979”

1. Andy Seven | March 19, 2012 at 10:41 am | Reply

   Just got a DVD of her and WC Fields in his silent comedy film “It’s The Old Army Game”. Very funny stuff, and she was great at comedy.

   • chainedandperfumed | March 19, 2012 at 11:21 am | Reply

     Damn, I haven’t seen that one and wasn’t aware it was available. I’ll have to check it out.
     https://chainedandperfumed.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/f-for-fields-5/

2. Andy Seven | March 19, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Reply

   The film employs routines Fields later used in “It’s A Gift”, namely the early morning noisemakers prompting him to come out of bed with a rifle…”Vegetable Man? Vegetable Gentleman?”
   There’s a great joke where someone calls the store and asks for half a box of Smith Bros. cough drops and Uncle Bill says, “Nope can’t do that. I can’t break the brothers up”. 🙂

   • chainedandperfumed | March 19, 2012 at 3:14 pm | Reply

     I love that back porch sequence in It’s a Gift—some salesman or someone like that is bothering him and his wife comes out and yells at him for trading ribald stories. Brilliant.

3. Andy Seven | March 19, 2012 at 3:37 pm | Reply

   Here you go:
   • chainedandperfumed | March 19, 2012 at 4:00 pm | Reply

     Cool. thanks.