Pandora’s Box (1929)

Directed by GW PABST

Starring LOUISE BROOKS FRITZ KORTNER FRANCIS LEDERER

Released 10 JULY

Only a cocktail of happenstance, gumption, and raw talent could provide the jet fuel required to propel a raven-haired starlet from a dusty Kansas cowtown to the movie palaces and cabarets of Weimar-era Berlin. Call it the Lulu effect, after the diminutive for the big screen. Her career was regretfully brief, but her resulting filmography–and myriad ways in which she changed screen acting–cannot be overstated.