In this time of Covid mourning, there could be no more beautiful and seductive widow than Louise Brooks, here pictured at the trial for Dr. Schon in the iconic silent film that made her reputation, Pandora's Box directed by Georg Pabst in 1929 in Berlin. Brooks "walked away from film at the height of her glory" according to Lotte Eisner who profiled her, because "she was so bored of doing the same thing over and over." Brooks was very bright and went on to become a respected memoirist.Read Lulu in Hollywood for an insightful break into film history. Like Eve Babitz after her, she kind of nailed it.