Louise Brooks: A Life in Pictures

"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!"

- Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française, 1955

When Langlois said that, Louise Brooks had been gone from the movies for nearly twenty years and was living in obscurity. Today the black helmet of hair, the level unblinking stare, and the two dozen films she left behind have made her one of the most instantly recognizable faces of the twentieth century - and one of the most misunderstood.

From Kansas to the...