Louise Brooks in Words & Pictures

Louise Brooks with Victor McLaglen
Photographed by Max Munn Autrey
Fox Studios Publicity Photograph
1928 · Hollywood, California

As in LOVE 'EM & LEAVE 'EM before it, Brooks's character A GIRL IN EVERY PORT was a gem of seductive unrepentance. Whether G.W. Pabst actually saw A GIRL IN EVERY PORT—a fact that has recently been challenged—and cast Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX based on that performance, the two previous bad girl roles were stellar training for the quintessential sinless temptress, Lulu.

1928 — Oh! You Pretty Things