This young actress plays the future silent film star, and nearly steals the show through her vivacious charm. As was once said about Brooks, all eyes turn toward Richardson when she is on screen. Though The Chaperone isn’t intended as a Brooks bio-pic, it quite nearly becomes one through the stellar performance of newcomer Richardson. So did Shirley MacLaine, a devotee of Brooks who wished to portray the actress as an older woman. She hoped to play the legendary star, who like her, hailed from Kansas. For a time, Julia Roberts owned the screen rights to the acclaimed 1989 biography of Brooks. A number of actresses have expressed interest in playing the bobbed star who famously played Lulu in Pandora’s Box – among them Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Neve Campbell, and Dana Delaney. Scripts have been written, cast suggested, and directors mentioned, but no project has ever gotten off the ground.
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In fact, interest in filming the story of the iconic silent movie star goes back as far as the 1980s. There has been talk of a Louise Brooks bio-pic for some time. As a film, The Chaperone leans heavily on Brooks’ legend in unraveling the story of her travelling companion. Accompanying her is a respectable, though unhappily married woman on her own quest to learn about her own beginnings. Its plot revolves around the summer the 16-year-old Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) – four years before she found fame as a film star – left her Wichita, Kansas home to study dance on the East Coast. The Chaperone, the first theatrical release from PBS Masterpiece, is a story of beginnings as well as a kind of origin story.
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