I was interested in seeing Louise Brooks in an American movie...I'd already seen Pandora's Box and Prix de Beaute, but they were foreign and had very different themes and tones than anything Hollywood would have produced back then. Netflix offers a double feature of 1925/1926 silents The Show-Off and The Plastic Age, starring Louise Brooks and Clara Bow respectively, and it's really interesting to see those two actresses on a double-bill. Brooks and Bow were definitely hot socks as the phrase went back then and known for their sex appeal, but Louise is cool and cat-like while Clara is wild and all over the place. She's running and pouting and rolling her big eyes, flinging her arms around men and practically pulsing with excitement. Louise Brooks, on the other hand, is more watchful and sly, very graceful--even just walking back and forth from one rowhouse to another in the Philadelphia setting of The Show-Off, she climbs each step with a dancer's poise. She has beautiful posture and wears her clothes like a model, while Clara seems to always want to throw her clothes off and run wild. They're each fascinating and you could still steal either one's look and look fine today, some eighty years later, but they're quite distinct. It's like Clara = vixen, Louise = temptress.