Louise poses on the set of When You’re in Love (1937). Columbia gave her minor uncredited part as a dancer with the understanding that she would be offered a new screen test and future roles. The studio reneged on the deal.
Louise poses with “Dismal Desmond (The Doleful Dalmatian)” and “Bonzo” in 1928. Both stuffed toy canines were modeled on popular cartoon characters of the era. Photo by Eugene Robert Richee. (Thread)
Louise at fifteen just prior to heading to New York in the summer of 1922 to join the Denishawn Dance Company. “After getting off the train from Wichita, Kansas, I walked into Grand Central Station and fell in love with New York forever.”
Louise in a photo promoting her dance performance at Miller Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, 1923. This was a return visit for the sixteen-year-old after leaving for New York the prior year to join the Denishawn Dance Company.
Louise and Foster pose with a gaggle of reporters in the cast of It Pays to Advertise (1931). “Now just raise the skirt, just a trifle...Oh boys! Take a look at those gams!” Louise as Thelma Temple replies, “Mmmm...pat it all better. What do you think you are, a chiropodist?”
Louise poses with Norman Foster on the set of It Pays to Advertise (1931). Although she had been dropped by Paramount in 1929 she was still contractually obligated to appear in one more film for the studio.
Louise at sixteen in a 1923 photo for The Denishawn Dance Company. “She wouldn’t let us smoke or eat candy or stay up late or anything,” Louise later said of the group’s co-founder Ruth St. Denis. “We did nothing but work and dance.”