Shots in the dark: exploring the secret of the Louise Brooks legacy, lacquered Bob and all.(MOVIE COLUMN) From: Interview | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

As a young man, my grandfather admired the silent star Colleen Moore. It was this box-office phenomenon who, as an incorruptible jazz baby in 1923's Flaming Youth, pioneered the bob haircut. Moore was friendly and pretty but, wrote James Card in Seductive Cinema, as "reassuringly sexless" as other leading actresses of the time--including Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Marion Davies. That may have been the source of Moore's appeal to George Fuller, a gentle giant of a farm worker who would stare at the living-room carpet when anything racy was shown on British television in the ...

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