Directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes (both of Downtown Abbey fame), the early 1920s period drama The Chaperone tells the story of free-spirited Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson), a teenager from Wichita, Kansas who got the opportunity to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, before she ultimately went on to become a silver screen sensation. But because of her age, her mother insisted that she be accompanied by a chaperone, which brought local society matron Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern) into her life and established a bond over that summer that would …