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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 5h

Judith Barrie and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in Party Girl (1930).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 9h

Virginia Mayo, 1944.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 9h

I feel your pain. :)

Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 9h

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 10h

Tank Girl. 😘

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 16h

The Radiogirls in the revue "Alles per Radio" Vienna, 1924. Of note: future film star Lilian Harvey is second from right.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 17h

I adore this film.

Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 17h

Lupe Velez by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1934.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 18h

Lillian Gish by Edward Steichen, 1932. #botd

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 18h

Louise with Andrews Engelmann in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 18h

Drop some COSTUMES
Jacque Lerner and Olive Borden in The Monkey Talks (1927)

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Lillian Gish #botd and Ralph Forbes in The Enemy (1927).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

The full image of Ava by Willinger for MGM, 1944.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Ava Gardner from a photo by László Willinger, 1944.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Louise with Speedy Schlichter in a still from Diary of a Lost Girl (1929).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Carole Lombard in a still for The Racketeer (1929).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Another take of Jeanne. Trivia: Wilhelm’s son László would follow in his portraiture footsteps and emigrate to the United States in 1937 at the invitation of Paramount’s Eugene Robert Richee.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Dancer Jeanne de Lande by Wilhelm Willinger, Vienna mid-1920’s.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting question! I wish I knew the answer.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

And lastly, Willinger used another interesting backdrop for this 1937 portrait of Clark Gable:

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Myrna and Jack Carson in Love Crazy (1941). The way she says “perfect” is just perfectly Myrna.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

“Every one who worked on the picture must have trained rigidly on a routine of old slapstick comedies and a diet of loco-weed, for most of the whacky tricks ever used have been tossed into it, "Love Crazy" is one of the craziest love stories ever spread on a screen.” — NY Times

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Of note: Willinger had Myrna pose with another equine backdrop in more MGM publicity portraits for Love Crazy (1941).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

The divorce discussion scene with Myrna, Powell and Blackmer (as the lawyer) in Love Crazy (1941). Trivia: the following year Myrna filed for divorce from her husband Arthur Hornblow.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Myrna in Love Crazy (1941) stills with William Powell and Sidney Blackmer. The film featuring Myrna and Powell — their tenth together — was generally well-received by critics and proved to be a money-making hit for MGM.

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