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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Chapters: People from Montgomery County, Kansas, Havana, Kansas, Coffeyville, Kansas, Caney, Kansas, Liberty, Kansas, Independence, Kansas, Cherryvale, Kansas, Dearing, Kansas, Tyro, Kansas, Elk City, Kansas, Louise Brooks, William Inge, Vivian Vance, Bill Kurtis, National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Kansas, Johnny Rutherford, Kansas's 4th congressional district, Sheila Bair, Gareth Porter, Micky Axton, William Wadsworth Hodkinson, Allan Wicker, Coffeyville Community College, Charles C. Carpenter, Lyman U. Humphrey, Kenneth McFarland, Helen Foster, Independence Community College, Harry Hines Woodring, Ron Kenoly, Dave Baker, Eva Jessye, Scott Hastings, Coffeyville Resources, Sam Avey, James Grauerholz, Carrie Ingalls, Coffeyville Municipal Airport, Sycamore, Kansas, Jeff Leiker, Charles T. Carpenter, Independence Municipal Airport, Denver David Hargis, Chuck Bowman, Maxwell Davis, Phil Ehart, Elk City State Park, Elk City Lake, Cynthia Sikes, Ron Warner, Mary Howard de Liagre, Omar Knedlik, Wade Flemons, The Coffeyville Journal, Terry Beeson, Booth Theater (Independence, Kansas), Union Implement and Hardware Building-Masonic Temple, Masonic Temple (Independence, Kansas), Claude Wendell Horton, Sr.. Excerpt: Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 - August 8, 1985), generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W. Pabst films: in Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Prix de Beauté (Miss Europe) (1930). She starred in 17 silent films and, late in life, authored a memoir, Lulu in Hollywood. Born in Cherryvale, Kansas, Louise Brooks was the daughter of Leonard Porter Brooks, a lawyer, who was usually too busy with his practice to discipline his children, and Myra Rude, an artistic mother who determined that any "squalling brats she produced could take care of themselves". Rude was a talented pianist who played the latest Debussy and Ravel for her children, inspiring them with a love of books and music. None of this protected her nine-year old daughter Louise from sexual abuse at the hands of a neighborhood predator. This event had a major influence on Brooks' life and career, causing her to say in later years that she was incapable of real love, and that this man "must have had a great deal to do with forming my attitude toward sexual pleasure....For me, nice, soft, easy men were never enough - there had to be an element of domination". (When Brooks at last told her mother of the incident, many years later, her mother suggested that it must have been Louise's fault for "leading him on".) Brooks began her entertainment career as a dancer, joining the Denishawn modern dance company (whose members included founders Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn, as well as a young Martha Graham) in 1922. In her second season with the company, Brooks had advanced to a starring role in one work opposite Shawn. A long-simmering personal conflict between Brooks and St. Denis boiled over one day, however, and St. Denis abruptly fired Brooks from the troupe in 1924, telling her in front of the other members t