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Pandora's Box Overview:

Pandora's Box (1929) was a Silent Films - Crime Film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and produced by Seymour Nebenzal and Heinz Landsmann.

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Order in the Court Blogathon: Pandora's Box:The Guilty Face in the Mirror

This is my entry in the Order in the Court Blogathon hosted by the criminally wonderful Lesley at Second Sight Cinema and Theresa at Cinemaven's ESSAYS from the Couch. Click HERE for more posts. It's so much fun, it feels like it should be illegal! Pandora's Box Guilty or innocent? Usually... Read full article


The Style Essentials--Louise Brooks Opens the PANDORA'S BOX of German Expressionism

Mention the words German Expressionism and you just might put a panic into even the most ardent of classic cinema fans. It's that seemingly scary combination--it's foreign and it's silent. But honestly...when you take the time to watch one, none of that matters. German Expressionism of the 1920s i... Read full article


Silent Film: Pandora's Box(1929).

Pandora's Box (1929). German silent melodrama film based loosely on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist Earth Spirit (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. Story of a young woman's uninhibite... Read full article


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Pandora's Box Quotes:

Lulu: MONEY! All they want is money!

Lulu: You'll have to kill me to get rid of me.

Lulu: Smoking is forbidden here.

Alwa Schön: It's strange how you can get booze on credit but not bread.
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Pandora's Box Facts
Georg Wilhelm Pabst nearly signed Marlene Dietrich to star, although he greatly preferred Louise Brooks. According to Pabst, Dietrich was in his office waiting to sign the contract when a cable came from Paramount saying that Brooks was willing to play the role.

Countess Anna is considered by historians to be cinema's first lesbian character.

In her biography, Louise Brooks says she was physically attracted to Gustav Diessl, who played Jack the Ripper, and that made it easy for her to play her scenes with him.

Included among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Jay Schneider.

Georg Wilhelm Pabst initially incurred a lot of wrath when he cast American Louise Brooks in the role of Lulu, a part which was considered to be quintessentially German. Ultimately Brooks' performance silenced her critics.

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