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When Brooks did return to Hollywood, most of the town considered her anathema. Wellman did supposedly offer the role eventually taken by Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy, but Brooks says she turned it down. Instead, she made a Grade-Z short, Windy Riles Goes Hollywood, directed by the disgraced...
In its second half, the movie gets pretty conventional. Another tramp, tough Wallace Beery, commandeers the gang and threatens to steal Brooks from Arlen. But under his rags, he can be noble - a member of the hobocracy - and facilitates an improbable happy ending. Beggars of Life was an unusually solemn...
Brooks' next picture was The Canary Murder Case, in which she played the Canary. As in A Girl in Every Port, she a showgirl floating above the crowd, this time on a swing - an object for men to look up at and covet. Her contract with Paramount was coming to...
Pabst, who was close to hiring Marlene Dietrich before Brooks said yes, knew that the Germans would be outraged that an American flapper was playing their Lulu, a character that was nearly a national icon. (Imagine the flap in Britain if this were announced: Brad Pitt is James Bond.) But...
While in Europe, Brooks was called home by Paramount. Talkies had come in, and the studio needed to loop and reshoot some scenes for sound. She refused. That snapped it. Paramount hired actress Margaret Livingstone to dub her dialogue, and Brooks had sassed herself onto a blacklist. She had often...