Louise Brooks
Educational Pictures Publicity Photograph for WINDY RILEY GOES HOLLYWOOD
1930 · Hollywood, California

Appearing quite different from the sulky, sooty-eyed flapper of the twenties, Brooks puts on one of the biggest grins in any of her portraits, denying the misery of the Depression. In truth, the thirties were an uncertain time for Brooksie, as well. Sadly, uncertain times would give way to desperate ones in the following two decades.