Biography
She was born around 1890 to Eva Roberts Cromwell and Oliver Eaton Cromwell. Her brother was James H. R. Cromwell, the American diplomat and husband to Doris Duke. After her father's death her mother married Edward T. Stotesbury.
She made her debut in Washington, DC in 1910. Louise Cromwell married Walter J. Brooks, Jr. in 1911. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Brooks and Cromwell divorced in 1919. She married Douglas MacArthur in 1922 and she claimed that General John J. Pershing threatened to send MacArthur to the Philippines if they married. That marriage ended in 1929. She next married the actor Lionel Atwill, whom she divorced in 1943. In 1944 she married Alf Heiberg. That marriage also ended in divorce.
Brooks died of a heart attack in Washington, DC at the age of 75.
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