Louise Brooks with Andre Roanne
HOM-Film Still Photograph from DIARY OF A LOST GIRL
1929 · Berlin, Germany

With their second collaboration, G.W. Pabst urged Louise Brooks to remain in Germany and commit herself to acting. Although she respected the director and submitted to him as she did no one else, she declined his entreaties. In frustration, Pabst delivered a prediction on the final day of shooting that would haunt Brooks for the remainder of her life-though she scarcely understood it at the time: "Your life is exactly like Lulu's [of PANDORA'S BOX], and you will end the same way."