Louise Brooks with G.W. Pabst
Personal Candid Photograph
October 14, 1928 · Berlin, Germany

Brooks described her relationship with PANDORA'S BOX director G.W. Pabst as something visceral and intuitive—a rapport that began the instant she stepped off the train in Berlin to meet him. "It was," she wrote, "just as if Pabst had sat in on my whole life and career and knew exactly where I needed assurance and protection. And, just as his understanding of me reached back to his knowledge of a past we did not have to speak about, so it was with the present . . . all that I thought and all his reactions seemed to pass between us in a kind of worldess communication."