But if that were all there was to say about Louise Brooks, we would not be celebrating her centenary today. That story, with minor alterations, could fit many women, perhaps most of them, who have come to Hollywood with dreams of stardom that never materialize. They look right at you and you don't exist." She made her last movie a cheapo western with a pre- Stagecoach John Wayne in 1938, and by 1946 she had to take a $40-a-week job as a sales girl at Saks Fifth Avenue. "It isn't that people turn their heads not to speak to you they don't see you. She was, she later recalled, invisible to the stars and moguls who had courted her a few years before.
When she returned to America, ready to make her mark in talking pictures, the movie industry blackballed her. She went to Europe and starred in three films, none of which made an impression at the time. She made 15 silent movies in New York and Hollywood, none in the lead role. Follow was a flapper in the 1920s, when Hollywood had hundreds of those pert girls.
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