Louise Brooks with James Hall and Richard Arlen
Paramount Studios Publicity Photograph for ROLLED STOCKINGS
April-May, 1927 · Hollywood, California

In a departure from the typecasting Brooks was saddled with in many of her American films, she played not the vamping flapper in ROLLED STOCKINGS, but the straight-laced college girl betrayed by Richard Arlen. Blonde junior star Nancy Phillips was instead tapped for the role of "the Vamp," as the character was literally called. In fact, the movie was touted as Paramount's first to feature only so-called Junior Stars—those who had supposedly been selected by the front office for grooming as potential box-office draws. There was no love lost between Louise and co-star Arlen on the set. And, though she made her lack of admiration for Arlen's acting plain, he was ironically the sole Junior Star who saw any measure of success in Hollywood after the 1920s.