Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks, born in 1906 in Cherryvale, was a dancer and silent-film actress, appearing in two dozen films in the 1920s and 1930s. Disenchanted with the American film industry, at age 21 she went to Europe where G.W. Pabst directed her in "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" in 1929. Both films are now considered classics, and Brooks is a cult figure of early European films. She died in 1985 in New York.