Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu

The documentary is about Louise Brooks. Brooks was a dancer first. Then she moved into film. She acted in pictures in Hollywood. After that she went to Berlin. It was the films she made there that she is known for. On her return things turned against her. For many years she lived as someone forgotten. Years later she was found again. The documentary tells her life in five parts. The parts are named around Lulu. Shirley MacLaine serves as the narrator. Passages from old interviews are in the film. Scenes from the silent era are shown as well. The production was made for television. Louise Brooks and Dana Delany appear in the sixty minute documentary, with Roddy McDowall also taking part, an American production Hugh Munro Neely finished in 1998.