Louise Brooks with Buck Jones and Gertrude Astor
Universal Pictures Film Still from EMPTY SADDLES
1936 · Hollywood, California

The sophisticated lawyer's daughter from Wichita, Kansas was an odd fit for EMPTY SADDLES with Buck Jones, and one can almost read the discomfort in her face here. Louise had little regard for Hollywood's version of the West, whose "unreality," she would later recall, "disgusted [her]."