Louise Brooks “There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!” The flapper’s icon, Louise Brooks was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her trademark haircut, the “black helmet” was worn by many. A shiny black, Dutch bob with bangs. Her hair was so much a part of peoples perception of her that when she would change it to a wild frenzy of curls or brushed it back away from her forehead, it would alter everything about her; her face, her attitude and the way she would