Louise Brooks with Keen Thompson
Paramount Studios Publicity Photograph for NOW WE'RE IN THE AIR
1927 · Hollywood, California

Among Brooks's innumerable publicity stills, she named this wry photo her favorite because she posed it herself. A voracious reader all her life, Louise found herself to be something of an anomaly among the decidedly unintellectual inhabitants of Hollywood—actors who would have been right at home in Gatsby's library.