Episode 135: Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks was a dancer, an actress, a film historian, critic and writer. In this episode, we also remember her for her perfect bob, her iconic flapper image, and the many ups, downs and farther downs in her life.
by The History Chicks | Sep 17, 2019 | Episode, Podcasts
Louise Brooks was a dancer, an actress, a film historian, critic and writer. In this episode, we also remember her for her perfect bob, her iconic flapper image, and the many ups, downs and farther downs in her life.
by The History Chicks | Feb 9, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
Only the most iconic of women can simply go by one name, and Jackie is one of them. Her life was a complicated collage of privilege, challenge, balance and reinvention. In this episode, we talk about the first half of that life from baby of affluence born exactly when the wealth of the US crashed, to just before she headed off on a trip with her husband to Texas in 1963.
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.