The chaperone pbs review movie#

Even though Brooks is hardly a familiar name anymore, she does provide some marquee value (for a few movie-lovers, at least). “The Chaperone” truly is a bait-and-switch story. While her charge is in dance class, she heads to the New York Home for Friendless Girls, i.e., the nun-run orphanage from which she was adopted. The Sisters are disinclined to help her, but luckily the place’s kind-hearted German handyman is. However, the pleasure of Louise’s company isn’t what’s brought Norma east. It’s a place where men always want to buy her things, be it ice cream or gin – “just for the pleasure of my company,” as she puts it. The Chaperone may be receiving a limited theatrical release, yet it is no more cinematic than any given episode of Downton Abbey, the series that Engler and Fellowes will be bringing to the big screen later this year. Louise, of course, is a handful – a madcap hoyden with an independent spirit. If Norma is worried about her charge’s virginity, well, don’t. A neighbor, Norma (Elizabeth McGovern, who also co-produced), volunteers to take her. MASTERPIECE: The Chaperone KPBS Public Media Journey from Kansas to New York City with the diffident chaperone to uninhibited dancer Louise Brooks in this Jazz Age drama that reunites DOWNTON. The Chaperone is the first feature film from director Michael Engler, who has had a long career directing for television ( Sex and the City, Downton Abbey ). Barely 16, her family thinks she’s much too young to go there unaccompanied. Young Louise (Haley Lu Richardson, who’s pretty good but lacks the unique allure of the real Brooks) has been offered the chance to study dance in Manhattan with the prestigious Denishawn company. Mary Louise Brooks was born in 1906 and died in 1985. But I was curious, as I am whenever I read historical fictionhow much of it was true So I got a copy of the memoirs of Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood, published in 1974.

The chaperone pbs review movie#

“The Chaperone” movie poster “The Chaperone” movie poster I enjoyed Laura Moriarty’s book, The Chaperone, a fictionalized story about the silent film star Louise Brooks.