Louise Brooks died on Thursday, August 8, 1985. Her legend has grown since. This timeline notes significant happenings since the death of the actress, dancer and writer, such as the publication of articles and books, the release of her films, notable screenings, exhibits, and more.
Dates given are exact, while dates given in italics are approximate within a few days. The mention of Brooks in a syndicated column are dated according to the clipping found, though such columns could and did run in different newspapers on different dates sometimes as much as a week apart.
This page represents PART 3 of the chronology, covering the years 1985 through to the present. PART 1 covers the years 1906 through 1939. PART 2 covers the years 1940 through 1985. This chronology, the product of considerable research, is © Thomas Gladysz / Louise Brooks Society. It is a work in progress, with confirmed dates added on an ongoing basis. Have something to add? Please CONTACT the Louise Brooks Society. (This page was last updated in December 2023)
August 8, 1985
Louise Brooks dies in Rochester, New York.
August 9, 1985
Brooks’ death is front page news in Rochester, New York and elsewhere around the world.
October 3, 1985
University of Rochester commences a seven-part, Thursday night Louise Brooks film series, starting with Love Em and Leave Em.
October 9, 1985
The second annual Documentary Film Festival in Rochester shows Lulu in Berlin; the screening is repeated on Oct. 19 and Oct. 21.
November 3, 1985
James Card introduces Prix de Beaute at the University of Rochester’s Louise Brooks film series.
November 14, 1985
University of Rochester concludes its Louise Brooks film series with Lulu in Berlin and Overland Stage Raiders.
November 29, 1985
Louise Brooks Estate Auction held in Rochester, New York.
date unknown 1985
Jacumba Hotel, a documentary about the making of Beggars of Life, airs on French television.
February 18, 1986
BBC Two airs Arena: Louise Brooks, a documentary, on UK television. It’s description reads, “The American film actress Louise Brooks, who died last summer, was one of the most celebrated beauties in the history of the cinema. Her performance as unrepentant pleasure-seeker Lulu in G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box made her a legend.”
February 21, 1986
BBC Two airs Diary of a Lost Girl.
February 22, 1986
BBC Two airs Pandora’s Box (with music selected by Carey Blyton) and Overland Stage Raiders.
April 19, 1986
Associated Press reports that Brooks has willed her “personal collection of books, journals and photographs” to the Eastman House.
October 14, 1989
Louise Brooks, the biography by Barry Paris, is published by Knopf.
November 21,1989
George Eastman House screens Love Em and Leave Em at the Dryden Theater, in conjunction with a book signing by Barry Paris marking the publication of his biography
1990
Lulu in Berlin (1985) is released on VHS by Kino on Video. (Included on the tape is Film Firsts: Louise Brooks (1960), a television short.)
April 21-22, 1990
A two-day, five film festival devoted to Brooks takes place at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, with both James Card and Barry Paris in attendance.The films shown are It’s the Old Army Game, Love Em and Leave Em, Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, and Prix de beaute.
August 27, 1993
BBC Two airs Overland Stage Raiders.
February 4, 1995
BBC Two airs Diary of a Lost Girl.
August 1995
Louise Brooks Society launches online.
October 15, 1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a documentary series by Kevin Brownlow, airs on BBC Two television. (Parts II and VI include Louise Brooks.)
May 5, 1998
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu, a documentary by Hugh Munro Neely, debuts on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in the United States.
November 16, 1998
An episode of Mysteries and Scandals about Louise Brooks airs on E! Entertainment.
May 18-20, 1999
Le Festival International du Film in Cannes, France screens Brooks’ three European films, and publishes a companion book, Louise Brooks l’europeenne. The Festival is programmed by la Cinematheque francaise and la Cineteca del Comune di Bologna.
June 29, 1999
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), by Hugh Munro Neely, is released on DVD by Image Entertainment.
July 10, 2000
Louise Brooks, the biography by Barry Paris & Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition, by Louise Brooks, are reissued by the University of Minnesota Press.
December 14, 2000
Barry Paris speaks about Louise Brooks and the reissue of his biography at the Booksmith in San Francisco. A trading card and limited edition broadside are issued to mark the occasion.
2001
Icons: Louise Brooks, a documentary short, airs on UK television.
2001
The Show Off (1926) / The Plastic Age (1925) is released on DVD by Image Entertainment.
April 27-28, 2001
The annual ZaSu Pitts Film Festival in Parsons, Kansas screens A Girl In Every Port, Beggars of Life, Pandora’s Box and a documentary about Brooks. Author Barry Paris is a special guest.
November 13, 2001
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) is released on DVD by Kino Lorber.
August 1, 2002
The Louise Brooks Society begins blogging on LiveJournal. Seven years later, in 2009, the blog moves to Blogger.
August 31, 2003
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, is published by New York Review Books Classics. Significantly, this new edition features Louise Brooks on the cover. thereby reinforcing her identification with the book.
2004
Louise Brooks – Cinq pas vers le mythe, a short French documentary, is released.
2005
Retrospectives of the films of Louise Brooks (United States) and Michael Powell (Great Britain) are given at the La Rochelle International Film Festival in France.
March 12, 2005
“The Archive Hour: The Parade’s Gone By …” is heard on BBC Radio 4 FM. The program includes audio of Kevin Brownlow’s interview with Louise Brooks and other silent era personalities.
November 5, 2006
Bristol Silents in Bristol, England screens the silent version of Prix de Beauté (1930). Before hand, there was an onstage conversation between Paul McGann and Kevin Brownlow which showed never before seen color home movie footage of Louise Brooks from the 1960s.
November 4, 2006 through January 5, 2007
“Homage to Lulu: 100 Years of Louise Brooks” exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library, mounted by the Louise Brooks Society.
November 7, 2006
Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, by Peter Cowie, is published by Rizzoli. A few related events with the author take place in the following weeks around the United States.
November 8, 9 & 10, 2006
The Slovenska kinoteka – the film archive located in Ljubljana, Slovenia – celebrates the centenary of Louise Brooks with a series of screenings.
November 11, 2006 through February 18, 2007
“Hollywood Lost: The Power of Louise Brooks” exhibit at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
November 14, 2006
Louise Brooks: Rebellin, Ikone, Legende, by Gunter Krenn and Karin Moser, is published by Verlag Filmarchiv Austria.
November 17 – December 16, 2006
The Filmmuseum in Munich, Germany mounts a major Louise Brooks film retrospective which includes 17 films, as well a rarely seen fragments from The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) and The American Venus (1926).
November 28, 2006
Pandora’s Box (1929) is released on DVD by the Criterion Collection.
January 2009
The Louise Brooks Society launches its Twitter account. (The account is taken down in 2023 following a false complaint by a “fan” of Louise Brooks.)
May 6, 2009
The Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles begins a four film, once-a week series of Brooks screenings, featuring Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, It’s the Old Army Game, and Beggars of Life.
January 05, 2010
Pandora’s Box (1929) is released on DVD in the UK by Second Sight Films.
2010
Dear Stinkpot: Letters From Louise Brooks, by Jan Wahl, is published by BearManor Media.
2010
The Louise Brooks Society page is established on Facebook. (The account is taken down in 2023 following a false complaint by a “fan” of Louise Brooks.)
December 31, 2010
The “Louise Brooks edition” of The Diary of a Lost Girl, by Margarete Bohme, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
June 5, 2012
The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty, is published by Riverhead. The book is featured in O Magazine, and is named the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer.
June 23, 2012
A restoration of the silent version of Prix de Beaute (1930) is screened outdoors in front of a large crowd gathered in a plaza in Bologna, Italy, as part of Il Cinema Ritrovato. The screening coincided with an exhibit at the Palazzo Incontro in Rome of the art of Guido Crepax, whose long-running Valentina comix were inspired by Brooks.
July 14, 2012
Pandora’s Box (1929) screens at the Music Box Theater in Chicago; elsewhere, a recent restoration of the film screens at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
October 2, 2012
Overland Stage Raiders (1938) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Olive Films.
December 11, 2012
God’s Gift to Women (1931) is released on DVD by Warner Archive.
September 21, 2013
The Louise Brooks Society YouTube account is established.
June 1, 2015
Louise Brooks: Detective, by Rick Geary, is published by NBM Publishing.
October 20, 2015
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.
December 15, 2016
Pandora’s Box screens for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey. The film is introduced by Deutsche Kinematek’s director Martin Körber, who restored the film.
June 2, 2017
A preserved, 23 minute fragment of the once lost film, Now We’re in the Air (1927), debuts at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
April 27, 2017
Beggars of Life: A Companion to the 1928 Film, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
August 22, 2017
Beggars of Life (1928) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.
November 14, 2017
Now We’re in the Air: A Companion to the Once Lost Film, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
December 19, 2017
Pandora’s Box, by Pamela Hutchinson, is published by BFI Film Classics.
March 13, 2018
It’s the Old Army Game (1926) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber in the United States.
June 1, 2018
A restoration of Pandora’s Box (1929) is given a theatrical release in England. It shows in a number of English cities and towns over the next few months.
August 14, 2018
Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
November 17, 2018
It’s the Old Army Game (1926) and the surviving fragment of Now We’re in the Air (1927) are shown as part of the inaugural Frank Buxton Silent Film Festival at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Bainbridge, Washington.
January 29, 2019
Author Jan Wahl, Brooks’ longtime friend and correspondent, dies at the age of 87.
February 9, 2019
BBC Radio 4 airs an original radio drama about Louise Brooks. The 57 minute piece, titled Opening Pandora’s Box, was written by Katie Hims.
March 2019
Hollywoodland, a Louise Brooks-inspired comic by Michele Masiero and Roberto Baldazzini, is published in Italy.
March 29, 2019
The Chaperone, the first theatrical release from PBS masterpiece, opens in New York City. The film later airs on PBS Masterpiece.
August 23, 2019
Thomas Gladysz gives the keynote address at the 92nd annual Valentino Memorial Service at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California. The title of my talk was “Through the Black Velvet Curtain: Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino“.
July 5, 2020
Jack Garner, longtime film critic and friend to Louise Brooks, dies at age 75.
October 5 – November 18, 2020
FilmPodium in Zurich, Switzerland hosts a 15 film Louise Brooks retrospective. (The event had originally been scheduled for earlier in the year but was cancelled due to the pandemic.)
November 2020
Un dernier Charleston, Louise (One last Charleston, Louise), by Daniel Bernard, has been published in Switzerland by Editions Lemart.
February 27, 2021
The”Kansas Silent Film Festival in New Hampshire,” an event relocated due to Covid-19, screens The Show-Off (1926).
May 2021
Hollywoodland, a Louise Brooks-inspired comic by Michele Masiero and Roberto Baldazzini, is published in France..
July 2021
Independent recording artist Rick Gallego and his band Cloud Eleven release Pandora’s Box (Kool Kat Musik), a musical tribute to Brooks.
September 2021
The Louise Brooks Society blog features a small handful of groundbreaking posts about the life of Brooks mother, Myra Brooks.
March 23, 2022
iHeart Radio streams seven of the eight episodes of “Does Scandal Destroy the Stars?”, Louise Brooks 1962 radio broadcasts on WHAM.
May 10, 2022
The restoration of The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) debuts at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
September 2022
The Dutch prog rock band Timelock re-releases their 1992 album, Louise Brooks.
September 3, 2022
Overland Stage Raiders (1938) is shown out-of-doors at the Cherryvale Historical Museum in Cherryvale, Kansas.
November 30, 2022
Loulou (aka Pandora’s Box) opens the Cinémathèque de Toulouse Synchro, a film music festival at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse in France. The film is accompanied by Dutch pianist Maud Nielsen and Portuguese bassist Eduardo Raun.
May 6, 2023
The Hugh Hefner funded restoration is screened by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.
April 23, 2023
“Sin Lust Evil in America: Louise Brooks and the Exhibition History of Pandora’s Box (1929)“, an article by Thomas Gladysz, is published in Film International.
August 7, 2023
The Street of Forgotten Men: From Story to Screen and Beyond, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
October 2023
Eureka Entertainment releases the first ever Blu-ray of Pandora’s Box in the UK.
December 7, 2023
The BBC airs the Arena: Louise Brooks documentary for the first time since 1986.
August 8, 1985
Louise Brooks dies in Rochester, New York.
August 9, 1985
Brooks’ death is front page news in Rochester, New York and elsewhere around the world.
October 3, 1985
University of Rochester commences a seven-part, Thursday night Louise Brooks film series, starting with Love Em and Leave Em.
October 9, 1985
The second annual Documentary Film Festival in Rochester shows Lulu in Berlin; the screening is repeated on Oct. 19 and Oct. 21.
November 3, 1985
James Card introduces Prix de Beaute at the University of Rochester’s Louise Brooks film series.
November 14, 1985
University of Rochester concludes its Louise Brooks film series with Lulu in Berlin and Overland Stage Raiders.
November 29, 1985
Louise Brooks Estate Auction held in Rochester, New York.
date unknown 1985
Jacumba Hotel, a documentary about the making of Beggars of Life, airs on French television.
February 18, 1986
BBC Two airs Arena: Louise Brooks, a documentary, on UK television. It’s description reads, “The American film actress Louise Brooks, who died last summer, was one of the most celebrated beauties in the history of the cinema. Her performance as unrepentant pleasure-seeker Lulu in G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box made her a legend.”
February 21, 1986
BBC Two airs Diary of a Lost Girl.
February 22, 1986
BBC Two airs Pandora’s Box (with music selected by Carey Blyton) and Overland Stage Raiders.
April 19, 1986
Associated Press reports that Brooks has willed her “personal collection of books, journals and photographs” to the Eastman House.
October 14, 1989
Louise Brooks, the biography by Barry Paris, is published by Knopf.
November 21,1989
George Eastman House screens Love Em and Leave Em at the Dryden Theater, in conjunction with a book signing by Barry Paris marking the publication of his biography
1990
Lulu in Berlin (1985) is released on VHS by Kino on Video. (Included on the tape is Film Firsts: Louise Brooks (1960), a television short.)
April 21-22, 1990
A two-day, five film festival devoted to Brooks takes place at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, with both James Card and Barry Paris in attendance.The films shown are It’s the Old Army Game, Love Em and Leave Em, Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, and Prix de beaute.
August 27, 1993
BBC Two airs Overland Stage Raiders.
February 4, 1995
BBC Two airs Diary of a Lost Girl.
August 1995
Louise Brooks Society launches online.
October 15, 1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a documentary series by Kevin Brownlow, airs on BBC Two television. (Parts II and VI include Louise Brooks.)
May 5, 1998
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu, a documentary by Hugh Munro Neely, debuts on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in the United States.
November 16, 1998
An episode of Mysteries and Scandals about Louise Brooks airs on E! Entertainment.
May 18-20, 1999
Le Festival International du Film in Cannes, France screens Brooks’ three European films, and publishes a companion book, Louise Brooks l’europeenne. The Festival is programmed by la Cinematheque francaise and la Cineteca del Comune di Bologna.
June 29, 1999
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), by Hugh Munro Neely, is released on DVD by Image Entertainment.
July 10, 2000
Louise Brooks, the biography by Barry Paris & Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition, by Louise Brooks, are reissued by the University of Minnesota Press.
December 14, 2000
Barry Paris speaks about Louise Brooks and the reissue of his biography at the Booksmith in San Francisco. A trading card and limited edition broadside are issued to mark the occasion.
2001
Icons: Louise Brooks, a documentary short, airs on UK television.
2001
The Show Off (1926) / The Plastic Age (1925) is released on DVD by Image Entertainment.
April 27-28, 2001
The annual ZaSu Pitts Film Festival in Parsons, Kansas screens A Girl In Every Port, Beggars of Life, Pandora’s Box and a documentary about Brooks. Author Barry Paris is a special guest.
November 13, 2001
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) is released on DVD by Kino Lorber.
August 1, 2002
The Louise Brooks Society begins blogging on LiveJournal. Seven years later, in 2009, the blog moves to Blogger.
August 31, 2003
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, is published by New York Review Books Classics. Significantly, this new edition features Louise Brooks on the cover. thereby reinforcing her identification with the book.
2004
Louise Brooks – Cinq pas vers le mythe, a short French documentary, is released.
2005
Retrospectives of the films of Louise Brooks (United States) and Michael Powell (Great Britain) are given at the La Rochelle International Film Festival in France.
March 12, 2005
“The Archive Hour: The Parade’s Gone By …” is heard on BBC Radio 4 FM. The program includes audio of Kevin Brownlow’s interview with Louise Brooks and other silent era personalities.
November 5, 2006
Bristol Silents in Bristol, England screens the silent version of Prix de Beauté (1930). Before hand, there was an onstage conversation between Paul McGann and Kevin Brownlow which showed never before seen color home movie footage of Louise Brooks from the 1960s.
November 4, 2006 through January 5, 2007
“Homage to Lulu: 100 Years of Louise Brooks” exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library, mounted by the Louise Brooks Society.
November 7, 2006
Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, by Peter Cowie, is published by Rizzoli. A few related events with the author take place in the following weeks around the United States.
November 8, 9 & 10, 2006
The Slovenska kinoteka – the film archive located in Ljubljana, Slovenia – celebrates the centenary of Louise Brooks with a series of screenings.
November 11, 2006 through February 18, 2007
“Hollywood Lost: The Power of Louise Brooks” exhibit at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
November 14, 2006
Louise Brooks: Rebellin, Ikone, Legende, by Gunter Krenn and Karin Moser, is published by Verlag Filmarchiv Austria.
November 17 – December 16, 2006
The Filmmuseum in Munich, Germany mounts a major Louise Brooks film retrospective which includes 17 films, as well a rarely seen fragments from The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) and The American Venus (1926).
November 28, 2006
Pandora’s Box (1929) is released on DVD by the Criterion Collection.
January 2009
The Louise Brooks Society launches its Twitter account. (The account is taken down in 2023 following a false complaint by a “fan” of Louise Brooks.)
May 6, 2009
The Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles begins a four film, once-a week series of Brooks screenings, featuring Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, It’s the Old Army Game, and Beggars of Life.
January 05, 2010
Pandora’s Box (1929) is released on DVD in the UK by Second Sight Films.
2010
Dear Stinkpot: Letters From Louise Brooks, by Jan Wahl, is published by BearManor Media.
2010
The Louise Brooks Society page is established on Facebook. (The account is taken down in 2023 following a false complaint by a “fan” of Louise Brooks.)
December 31, 2010
The “Louise Brooks edition” of The Diary of a Lost Girl, by Margarete Bohme, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
June 5, 2012
The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty, is published by Riverhead. The book is featured in O Magazine, and is named the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer.
June 23, 2012
A restoration of the silent version of Prix de Beaute (1930) is screened outdoors in front of a large crowd gathered in a plaza in Bologna, Italy, as part of Il Cinema Ritrovato. The screening coincided with an exhibit at the Palazzo Incontro in Rome of the art of Guido Crepax, whose long-running Valentina comix were inspired by Brooks.
July 14, 2012
Pandora’s Box (1929) screens at the Music Box Theater in Chicago; elsewhere, a recent restoration of the film screens at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
October 2, 2012
Overland Stage Raiders (1938) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Olive Films.
December 11, 2012
God’s Gift to Women (1931) is released on DVD by Warner Archive.
September 21, 2013
The Louise Brooks Society YouTube account is established.
June 1, 2015
Louise Brooks: Detective, by Rick Geary, is published by NBM Publishing.
October 20, 2015
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.
December 15, 2016
Pandora’s Box screens for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey. The film is introduced by Deutsche Kinematek’s director Martin Körber, who restored the film.
June 2, 2017
A preserved, 23 minute fragment of the once lost film, Now We’re in the Air (1927), debuts at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
April 27, 2017
Beggars of Life: A Companion to the 1928 Film, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
August 22, 2017
Beggars of Life (1928) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.
November 14, 2017
Now We’re in the Air: A Companion to the Once Lost Film, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
December 19, 2017
Pandora’s Box, by Pamela Hutchinson, is published by BFI Film Classics.
March 13, 2018
It’s the Old Army Game (1926) is released on DVD / Blu-ray by Kino Lorber in the United States.
June 1, 2018
A restoration of Pandora’s Box (1929) is given a theatrical release in England. It shows in a number of English cities and towns over the next few months.
August 14, 2018
Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
November 17, 2018
It’s the Old Army Game (1926) and the surviving fragment of Now We’re in the Air (1927) are shown as part of the inaugural Frank Buxton Silent Film Festival at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Bainbridge, Washington.
January 29, 2019
Author Jan Wahl, Brooks’ longtime friend and correspondent, dies at the age of 87.
February 9, 2019
BBC Radio 4 airs an original radio drama about Louise Brooks. The 57 minute piece, titled Opening Pandora’s Box, was written by Katie Hims.
March 2019
Hollywoodland, a Louise Brooks-inspired comic by Michele Masiero and Roberto Baldazzini, is published in Italy.
March 29, 2019
The Chaperone, the first theatrical release from PBS masterpiece, opens in New York City. The film later airs on PBS Masterpiece.
August 23, 2019
Thomas Gladysz gives the keynote address at the 92nd annual Valentino Memorial Service at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California. The title of my talk was “Through the Black Velvet Curtain: Louise Brooks and Rudolph Valentino“.
July 5, 2020
Jack Garner, longtime film critic and friend to Louise Brooks, dies at age 75.
October 5 – November 18, 2020
FilmPodium in Zurich, Switzerland hosts a 15 film Louise Brooks retrospective. (The event had originally been scheduled for earlier in the year but was cancelled due to the pandemic.)
November 2020
Un dernier Charleston, Louise (One last Charleston, Louise), by Daniel Bernard, has been published in Switzerland by Editions Lemart.
February 27, 2021
The”Kansas Silent Film Festival in New Hampshire,” an event relocated due to Covid-19, screens The Show-Off (1926).
May 2021
Hollywoodland, a Louise Brooks-inspired comic by Michele Masiero and Roberto Baldazzini, is published in France..
July 2021
Independent recording artist Rick Gallego and his band Cloud Eleven release Pandora’s Box (Kool Kat Musik), a musical tribute to Brooks.
September 2021
The Louise Brooks Society blog features a small handful of groundbreaking posts about the life of Brooks mother, Myra Brooks.
March 23, 2022
iHeart Radio streams seven of the eight episodes of “Does Scandal Destroy the Stars?”, Louise Brooks 1962 radio broadcasts on WHAM.
May 10, 2022
The restoration of The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) debuts at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
September 2022
The Dutch prog rock band Timelock re-releases their 1992 album, Louise Brooks.
September 3, 2022
Overland Stage Raiders (1938) is shown out-of-doors at the Cherryvale Historical Museum in Cherryvale, Kansas.
November 30, 2022
Loulou (aka Pandora’s Box) opens the Cinémathèque de Toulouse Synchro, a film music festival at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse in France. The film is accompanied by Dutch pianist Maud Nielsen and Portuguese bassist Eduardo Raun.
May 6, 2023
The Hugh Hefner funded restoration is screened by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California.
April 23, 2023
“Sin Lust Evil in America: Louise Brooks and the Exhibition History of Pandora’s Box (1929)“, an article by Thomas Gladysz, is published in Film International.
August 7, 2023
The Street of Forgotten Men: From Story to Screen and Beyond, by Thomas Gladysz, is published by the Louise Brooks Society / PandorasBox Press.
October 2023
Eureka Entertainment releases the first ever Blu-ray of Pandora’s Box in the UK.
December 7, 2023
The BBC airs the Arena: Louise Brooks documentary for the first time since 1986.