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Louise is very much a New World girl, full of daring and promise, if not judgment. There is the sense that appearance is important but inheritance and class – the engines of English drama – are less so. Most of the agency in the film is female, rather than male. McGovern brings Norma back to earth, as a woman of character and strength, albeit one who suffers because of her secrets.
It's an unmistakably camp sensibility, in which woman suffer in silence and silk, their lives commanded by melodrama and beastly men – Gone with the Windsors, except the servants are also white. He has made a career out of stylising and romanticising upper-class women, after draping them in furs and pearls. Indeed, the youngster makes Norma loosen her own corsets. Norma can't stay mad at someone with this much life. And Richardson, whose career should be long, bubbles with mischief and joy in the role. In fact, Louise Brooks first went to Los Angeles to dance – but we're not concerned with history here so much as legend. She knows she will do great things, if Norma will loosen the reins long enough for her to meet boys, drink martinis and become a famous dancer with a modern ballet company (Miranda Otto as Ruth St Dennis). She wants to go to New York to find out who her real mother was, and why she sent her for adoption. Her husband (Campbell Scott) has kept part of himself hidden for most of their marriage their two boys are now grown up and launched into college. Norma has good reason to want to leave Kansas. The Chaperone is therefore a portrait of two women – one who will become the future (of naturalistic acting, not just the vamp hairstyle) the other delving into her past, trying to work out who she might be.
True, Hollywood made that easy by mistreating her, as they did all stars, particularly the women. She remains a cultural icon, partly because she turned her back on Hollywood when she was only 26 – after making a handful of good, and one or two great, movies. Credit:BARRY WETCHERīrooks had one of the greatest faces ever to adorn the silver screen. Haley Lu Richardson as Louise Brooks in The Chaperone.
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