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William Deering Davis (March 9, 1897 – 1965) was an American designer and author who was one of the first American aviators to serve in Italy in World War I.
9 de mar. de 2021 · Family tree of Deering DAVIS. Author, Architect & Designer, Aviator, World Wars & Contemporary Wars. Born William Deering DAVIS. American designer and author who was one of the first American aviators to serve in Italy in World War I. Born on March 9, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois , United States.
- Early Life
- Dancing Career
- Paramount Pictures
- Starring Roles
- Scandal
- European Movies
- Lulu
- Last Movies
- Dark Years After Hollywood
- Later Years and Legacy
Mary Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906, in Cherryvale Kansas, a quaint little town that hit its peak population in 1920, with a total of 4,698 people. Her father, Leonard, was an accomplished attorney. Her mother Myra was an artistic bohemian who was more interested in art and music than in raising children. Brooks and her three siblings ...
In 1922, at the age of fifteen, Brooks was invited to join the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. The school, with branches in Los Angeles and New York City, was designed to produce professional dancers to perform in the school’s professional dance company. For the next two years, Brooks traveled as part of the company, spending time in ...
One evening, Walter Wanger, a movie producer with Paramount Pictures, attended a Ziegfield Follies performance and became immediately infatuated with Brooks. He quickly signed her to make movies with the studio. Brooks and Wanger began an affair that would last years but would be sporadic. It wasn’t long before Brooks caught the attention of anothe...
Her first starring role was in another lost film, A Social Celebrity (1926) opposite Adolphe Menjou (A Woman of Paris). The plot of this comedy revolves around a barber who pretends to be a French Count in New York City. Brooks played a showgirl that used to work as a manicurist at the barbershop, owned by the main character’s father. She followed ...
Around this time Brooks began to rub elbows with the rich and famous in the bi-coastal social scene, most notably William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. On one visit to San Simeon, while The Great Canary Murder Case(1929) was in production, she began a sexual liaison with Davies’ niece, actress Pepi Lederer. In 1935, Lederer was committed to a ...
When acclaimed German director G.W. Pabst saw Louise Brooks in A Girl in Every Port (1928) he knew he wanted her to portray Lulu. She is the seductive and carefree girl who brings ruin wherever she goes. Pabst’s new version of Pandora’s Box was a popular story with German audiences at the time. However, she was still filming The Great Canary Murder...
When Pandora’s Boxwas released in theatres it was hated by audiences in both Germany and the United States, especially Brooks’ performance. The Germans hated her because she wasn’t a German, believing only a German should play the part of Lulu. Americans hated her naturalistic performance, which went against the exaggerated performances that silent...
Brooks returned to New York City and Marshall in 1929. It would be two years before she traveled back across the country and returned to Hollywood. Despite being essentially blacklisted due to her abrupt departure from Paramount she was cast in two movies It Pays to Advertise starring Carole Lombard (To Be or Not to Be) and God’s Gift to Women with...
In the 5 years between Windy Riley Goes Hollywood and Empty Saddles, several important things happened to Brooks. In 1932 she declared bankruptcy and had to make ends meet by dancing in nightclubs. Around this time Marshall ended the relationship he had with Brooks and married actress Connie Griffith (The Divine Lady). Brooks then married millionai...
Around this time a new generation of audiences was discovering her movies. These new fans loved her performances. Subsequently, a film festival of her movies was held in 1957 in Rochester, New York, where Brooks now resided. She had moved there a year earlier to work as a writer of cinematic essays for the George Eastman House. For the rest of her ...
William Deering Davis (March 9, 1897 – 1965) was an American designer and author who was one of the first American aviators to serve in Italy in World War I. He is also known for his marriages to movie star Louise Brooks and racehorse owner Etti Plesch.
Desde então, o desaparecimento dos ocupantes do Carroll A. Deering, que ficou conhecido como o “Navio Fantasma de Outer Banks”, se tornou um dos mais discutidos e investigados enigmas marítimos dos Estados Unidos – sem que, até hoje, ninguém saiba o que de fato aconteceu, exatos 100 anos atrás.
Meet the Deerings. Take a closer look at three generations of the Deering family to begin to understand how James Deering—who was born in Maine, ran a family business in Chicago and had homes in New York City and Neuilly, France—selected Miami for his winter retreat.
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