Playboy After Hours
October, 2005
She was the sex bomb even the Jazz Age couldn't handle. Her name may not be as recognizable as Marilyn or Brigitte, but Louise Brooks's cultural significance is hard to overstate. The model for the flapper ideal (her famous bob was the official party-girl cut of the day), Brooks was a pioneering actress and a free spirit brimming with appetites and attitude. While still a teenager Brooks made a splash as a featured girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. By 1925 she was in with Manhattan's smart set—celeb...
