Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it`ll be with a knife. A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching [Charles Chaplin] act."
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love - after the first curious raptures - is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren`t much smarter.
The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts . . . I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.
[on Margaret Sullavan] Do you know my favorite actress? She was very special in her appearance, her voice was exquisite and far away, almost like an echo. She was an excellent actress, completely unique. This wonderful voice of hers -- strange, fey, mysterious -- like a voice singing in the snow.
[on W.C. Fields] He was an isolated person. As a young man, he stretched out his hand to Beauty and Love and they thrust it away. Gradually he reduced reality to exclude all but his work, filling the gaps with alcohol. He was also a solitary person. Years of traveling alone around the world with his juggling act taught him the value of solitude and the release it gave his mind.
Trivia
By 1946, she had to take a $40-a-week job as a sales girl at Saks Fifth Avenue to make a living.
Her father was a lawyer.
Her favorite actress was Margaret Sullavan.
Her first autobiography, entitled `Naked On My Goat`, was thrown into an incinerator by her own hand.
In Neil Gaiman`s novel, American Gods, the character Czernobog called her the "greatest American actress of all time."
Marlene Dietrich was sitting in Georg Wilhelm Pabst`s office, ready to accept the role of Lulu in Pandora`s Box at the same time Brooks walked out on her Paramount contract.
Provided the inspiration for British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark`s 1991 Hit "Pandora`s Box." The Promo Video Clip features lead Singer Andy McCluskey inter cut with images from the artists Film of the same name.
She was raised in Wichita.
Was a dancer-showgirl before becoming an actress.
Was the chief example for a type of women called "Flapper," which evolved in the 1920s.
A 20th Century-Fox talent scout spotted a girl named Linda Carter in a play and offered her a screen test. "Linda Carter" was actually Brooks, who was attempting a comeback. (July 1938)
After retiring from cinema in 1938, she was found working as a $40-a-week salesgirl at Saks Fifth Avenue.
After retiring, went on to write many witty and intelligent essays on the film industry.
As a child, one of her best friends was Vivian Vance who played Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy" (1951).
Briefly the mistress of CBS founder William Paley, who secretly provided her with a yearly pension for the rest of her life.
Filed for bankruptcy. (6 February 1932)
Interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA.
Opened a dance studio in Beverly Hills. It failed because of a financial scandal involving her business partner. On 30 July 1940, Brooks boarded a train back to Kansas, leaving Hollywood for good. She opened a dance studio in Wichita and wrote a booklet, "The Fundamentals of Good Ballroom Dancing."
Trying to make a Hollywood comeback after working in Europe, she turned down an offer to star with James Cagney in the classic The Public Enemy (1931). The role could have revitalized her career.
Was the inspiration for the stage play "Show Girl," which, in turn, inspired the comic strip "Dixie Dugan." She was also the inspiration for Italian cartoonist Guido Crepax`s comic strip/graphic novel "Valentina." Brooks and Crepax became pen pals as a result.
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