Louise Brooks with Thomas Meighan
Paramount Studios Film Still from THE CITY GONE WILD
June-July 1927 · Hollywood, California

For THE CITY GONE WILD Brooks played an absurdly named gangster's moll. Here, Snuggles Joy confers with Thomas Meighan, Brooks's real life uncle-in-law. The film was a prototype of the gangster genre that would be patented just a few years later with SCARFACE, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, and LITTLE CAESAR. Sadly, the movie is lost, having decomposed in Paramount's vaults over 30 years ago.