Denis and Ted Shawn (both historic figures in American dance, and both characters in the film), but also future great Martha Graham (who receives a shout out in The Chaperone).Īs the film shows, the precocious 15-year-old soon became a star pupil, and was asked to join Denishawn’s touring company. At the time, the company included not only founders Ruth St. In real life, Brooks travelled to New York City in 1922 to study at Denishawn, then the leading modern dance troupe in America. This young actress steals the show, and turns The Chaperone into an unintended bio-pic. (Moriarty, author of The Chaperone, is a Kansas novelist, and not the noted Bay Area poet of the same name.)ĭespite its intention to tell the story of its title character, the matronly chaperone, the film’s focus is drawn to Brooks’ character, played by rising star Haley Lu Richardson.
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The Chaperone is based on Laura Moriarty’s 2012 novel of the same name, which in turn was inspired by incidents in the life of Brooks, then a teenager and four years away from movie stardom. The film was penned by Downton Abbey creator and writer Julian Fellowes, and directed by series director Michael Engler, who also helms the forthcoming Downton Abbey feature film. Here, she plays a different kind of character - a corseted, unhappily married woman from Kansas who accompanies the rebellious Brooks on a trip in the summer of 1922.
The PBS film, a glossy excursion into the morals and manners of the Jazz Age, marks the return to Berkeley of its central character, the silent film star Louise Brooks.Įlizabeth McGovern, the Countess of Grantham in the popular TV series, produced and stars in The Chaperone. The Chaperone, the new historical drama from the creators of Downton Abbey, is showing locally at Landmark Theatres. Haley Lu Richardson in The Chaperone, screening at Landmark Theatres Shattuck.
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