Louise Brooks
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Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during
Brooks c. 1926
Brooks as a sophomore in high school, 1922. She had worn bobbed hair since childhood.
Brooks and Gregory Kelly in The Show-Off (1926)
Brooks and Gustav von Seyffertitz in The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Greta Garbo
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Greta Garbo was a Swedish and American film actress. She was a leading star during Hollywood's silent and early golden eras. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she is known
Louise Brooks
…film historians such as Henri Langlois rediscovered Brooks's films, proclaiming her an unparalleled actress who surpassed even Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo as a film icon, much to her purported amusement. This rediscovery led to a Louise Brooks film festival in 1957 and rehabilitated her reputation in her…
Garbo in Inspiration (1931)
Ten-year-old Garbo in 1915
The approved application by Greta's mother to allow her name change from Gustafsson to Garbo.
Garbo in her first leading role in the Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924) with Lars Hanson