The Relationship of Louise Brooks and Kenneth Tynan and Parallels with the Fitzgeralds Born in 1927, Kenneth Tynan was a renowned and respected yet sometimes controversial theatrical critic of the 20th century. Louise Brooks was one of the most iconic silent film actresses of the 1920s. Tynan knew of Brooks from her films, and had become infatuated with her work in Pabst’s film from 1929, ‘Pandora’s Box.’ Starting in the late 1970s, he grew a romance with Brooks. Dying of emphysema in his fifties, he set out to find her to make all of his own dreams come true. He called Brooks his, “dark lady”, wanting to pursue his fantasies…