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Spotlight: Louise BrooksFilm 8 of 8
Miss Europe
Prix de beauté
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Augusto Genina, Sofar, 1930, from a story Pabst and René Clair had a hand in. Louise Brooks is Lucienne, a Paris typist who enters a contest, becomes Miss Europe, and finds that the prize is a contract and a jealous man. Shot silent, then post-synchronized in several languages. Rudolf Maté photographed it. The last scene is her watching her own image in a projection room. The sound version keeps that ending. Cineteca di Bologna later put the silent cut back together.
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The last silent she made in Europe: a typist wins a contest, and the prize is a contract and a jealous man. Maté photographed it. The ending is Brooks in a projection room watching her own image, which is how the rest of the century met her. She left the business before thirty.
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