“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”

-Louise Brooks

“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.” 

                                                                       -James Agee

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren’t much smarter. 

-Louise Brooks

“There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.”  -Louise Brooks

Welcome to My Dollhouse

“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”  

                                                                          -Louise Brooks

This site is intended to promote thoughtful discourse among ladies, and the occasional smarted up gent, on the subject of cinema.  Past and present productions are all game for scrutiny so long as it’s served with some class . . . and perhaps a cocktail.