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Beggars of Life

film by Wellman [1928]
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  • The iconic Louise Brooks, 1928
    Louise Brooks

    
Port (1928) and William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928). Her performances attracted the attention of the German director G.W. Pabst, who cast her as the amoral self-destructive temptress Lulu in Die BĂŒchse der Pandora (1929; Pandora’s Box). Brooks’s haunting performance in this film and as the 16-year-old girl who is


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Port (1928) and William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928). Her performances attracted the attention of the German director G.W. Pabst, who cast her as the amoral self-destructive temptress Lulu in Die BĂŒchse der Pandora (1929; Pandora’s Box). Brooks’s haunting performance in this film and as the 16-year-old girl who is


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