Thelma & Louise Thelma & Louise Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip with unforeseen consequences. The supporting cast include Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Brad Pitt in his first major film role. The film became a critical and commercial success, receiving six Academy Award nominations and winning for Best Original Screenplay. Scott was nominated for Best Director, and both Sarandon and Davis were nominated for Best Actress. At its release, the film
Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives The Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives is located on the third floor of the Main Library in the University of Iowa Libraries system in Iowa City, Iowa. It was funded when Louise Noun sold a Frida Kahlo painting titled “Self Portrait with Loose Hair” for $1.65 million through Christie’s in New York on May 15, 1991. “It is fitting that the Archives was funded by the sale of a Frida Kahlo painting…[as] Kahlo’s paintings have been rescued from obscurity in recent years…the IWA was meant to rescue the papers of Iowa