![]() ![]() Sadly, all agreed Brooksie just wasn’t Brooksie with her fringe curled back. You can see her like this in her first publicity shots with Pabst. ![]() ![]() Pabst wanted to avoid the comparison, so tested Brooks without the bangs. Asta Nielsen had starred in a previous Lulu adaptation, Erdgeist (1923), wearing a bob, albeit one that was longer and blunter. In 1928, when Pabst was putting together his adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays, Pandora’s Box, he saw Brooks in A Girl in Every Port and knew he had found his star – but he wanted to cast off the fringe. The androgynous quality suited the good-time girls and two-timers she played in movies, but was especially suited to her first romantic lead: as a lass who goes on the run in drag in Beggars of Life (1928). ![]()
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