![]() ![]() Were she successful at the summer school, she would become one of the troupe, who travelled across the USA performing modern dance.Īt fifteen Louise had to be chaperoned – never mind that she was way older than her years mentally and could run intellectual rings around people twice her age. Her ambition was to be a dancer, and she had caught the eye of the Denishawn team, who ran arguably America’s best modern dance school. The Chaperone is based on a fact: when she was fifteen, Louise Brooks travelled from Witchita, Kansas, to New York City to spend the summer at the Denishawn Dance School. If you want to know more, search for her on YouTube. Nobody moved as naturally, acted with such subtleness, and said so much with her eyes. Louise grabbed obscurity from the jaws of stardom more than once, but when her star shone it shone with incandescence. For those of you who don’t know her, she was the most beautiful and talented film star in the 1920s, too intelligent to be entrapped in the studio system too intelligent for her own good. When I saw the cover of The Chaperone, with the unmistakable and gorgeous 3/4 profile of Louise Brooks on the cover, I grabbed it with both hands and eagerly turned to the back cover to read the publisher’s blurb. ![]() I enjoyed it immensely, being rather a sucker for fiction set in Paris in the 1920s! Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife (about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley), was well-researched and believable. ![]() ![]() Fictionalised lives of famous people can be hit or miss. ![]()
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