The Chaperone
Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn't break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It's a story full of surprises--about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
18 February 1971, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
11 June 1969, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1953, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
2 March 1971, Shkodër, Albania
16 December 1967, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
18 May 1950, Portland, Maine, USA
19 July 1961, New York City, New York, USA
29 October 1954, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
