![]() ![]() She has a secret reason for going with Louise – she wants to find herself, literally. Cora and Alan’s eighteen year old twin sons are away working on a farm before leaving for college, so Cora is free to travel. Thirty-six year old Cora surprises herself and her husband, Alan, a busy lawyer twelve years her senior, by volunteering to accompany Louise to New York. Author Laura Moriarty took this unknown woman, named her “Cora Carlisle”, and made her the central character of The Chaperone. ![]() In her autobiography she mentions leaving Wichita with her chaperone, a woman with whom she had nothing in common but a love of theatre. In her senior years, documentary makers and film historians were eager to interview her.īrooks’s show business career began the summer she was fifteen, when she went to New York to attend the Denishawn school of dance. Then she moved to New York City, where, according to her 1982 autobiography, Lulu in Hollywood, she worked first at Saks Fifth Avenue store and then as a courtesan with a select clientele. She made 24 movies, went through several fortunes and marriages, and in 1938, when her film career took a downturn, returned briefly to her Wichita, Kansas home. ![]() Silent film star Louise Brooks, 1906-1985, was famous for her short, black helmet of hair. ![]()
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