In it she gives some insight into several actors and actresses she knew well, including Humphrey Bogart, Marion Davies (mistress of publisher William Randolph Hearst), Lilian Gish, Greta Garbo, W.C.Fields, and others. CastEdit Elizabeth McGovern as Norma (The Chaperone) Haley Lu Richardson as Louise Brooks Miranda Otto as Ruth St. Having satisfied myself that The Chaperone was almost entirely fiction, I finished Louise Brooks’ memoir which continued into the sixties. She found love in New York and returned home to Kansas at the end of the summer, but never established a dance school.
Masterpiece: The Chaperone explores the fictional relationship between a not-yet-famous Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson, The Edge of Seventeen, Split) and Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey), a woman who is given the difficult task of looking after the free-spirited. Moriarty’s character was thirty-six but not stocky, and she was not the least interested in Ted Shawn, the dance instructor, or in dance. 10 Little Known Facts About Silent Film Star Louise Brooks. Using that little bit, Moriarty crafted a person with a different name. ”Īnd that’s about all Louise Brooks says of her chaperone. Set in the same era as the beloved PBS show, The Chaperone follows the story of budding silent-era film star Louise Brooks ( Haley Lu Richardson ), who leaves Wichita for New York City in the company of Norma Carlilse, a middle-class married matron who acts as her chaperone. Mills’ provincialism because she shared my love of the theatre. Most of the students were females from the Middle West, to which, like my chaperon, Alice Mills, they would return to establish Denishawn schools.
She agreed to accompany me on the train and live with me in New York. " finally overcame his strong objection to sending a little fifteen-year-old girl away from her home alone by finding me a chaperon, Alice Mills, a stocky, bespectacled housewife of thirty-six who, having fallen idiotically in love with the beautiful Ted Shawn at first sight, decided to study dance with him. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise to New York for a surprising, whirlwind summer. She mentions going to New York in 1922 to study at a famous dance studio, Denishawn, and that she was accompanied by a chaperone. When the opportunity arises for Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother insists there be a chaperone. Her memoirs cover her early years only superficially and that’s the part that The Chaperone covers. Mary Louise Brooks was born in 1906 and died in 1985. So I got a copy of the memoirs of Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood, published in 1974. But I was curious, as I am whenever I read historical fiction–how much of it was true? I enjoyed Laura Moriarty’s book, The Chaperone, a fictionalized story about the silent film star Louise Brooks.
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