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Louise Brooks

1906 - 1985

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Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.At the age of 15, Brooks began her career as a dancer and toured with the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts where she performed opposite Ted Shawn. After being fired, she found employment as a chorus girl in George White's Scandals and as a semi-nude dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louise Brooks has received more than 2,709,585 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Louise Brooks is the 1,144th most popular actor (down from 1,139th in 2019), the 2,040th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,100th in 2019) and the 554th most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Louise Brooks ranks 1,144 out of 9,996. Before her are Al Lettieri, Girish Karnad, Soad Hosny, Kemal Sunal, Kurt Gerron, and Mercedes McCambridge. After her are John Barrymore, Linda Gray, Graham Greene, Mikael Persbrandt, Delphine Seyrig, and Bob Fosse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Louise Brooks ranks 95. Before her are Heinrich Schwarz, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Carol Reed, Joaquín Balaguer, Giuseppe Siri, and Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse. After her are Edmond Debeaumarché, Curtis LeMay, Phạm Văn Đồng, Philippe Halsman, Jack Churchill, and Berthold, Margrave of Baden. Among people deceased in 1985, Louise Brooks ranks 52. Before her are Kim Yong-sik, Tancredo Neves, Henry Hathaway, David Byron, Eric Voegelin, and Ruth Gordon. After her are Zarifa Aliyeva, Michael Redgrave, Herbert Bayer, Wellington Koo, Birabongse Bhanudej, and Ricky Nelson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louise Brooks ranks 2,040 out of 18,182. Before her are Jef Raskin (1943), Frank Borzage (1894), Ted Danson (1947), Al Lettieri (1928), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), and Joseph Greenberg (1915). After her are John Barrymore (1882), Grace Slick (1939), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Linda Gray (1940), Sam Houston (1793), and Christina Aguilera (1980).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Louise Brooks ranks 554. Before her are Ruth Gordon (1896), Ashley Judd (1968), Christine Baranski (1952), Ted Danson (1947), Al Lettieri (1928), and Mercedes McCambridge (1916). After her are John Barrymore (1882), Linda Gray (1940), Bob Fosse (1927), Jean Arthur (1900), Brendan Fraser (1968), and Armand Assante (1949).

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