🎬 Louise Brooks was the youngest member of the Denishawn Dancers at age 15. On a dance tour of Europe in 1925 with friend and fellow actress Barbara Bennett she performed "the Charleston," making her the first woman to perform the dance move in London.
She was “discovered” by Walter Wagner of Paramount Pictures while dancing with the Ziegfeld Follies. At just 19, Brooks signed a five-year contract with the studio and began her silent film career.
Her role in silent and flapper films influenced thousands of women to get her famous bobbed haircut, a style that would become emblematic of the 1920’s.














