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The film stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles. The film is filled with comedic situations and musical numbers, choreographed by Jack Cole , while the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael , Harold Adamson , Jule Styne and Leo ...
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- Breaking Into Writing For Film and Theater
- An Imperfect Marriage in Exchange For Freedom
- Making It Big in Hollywood
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Collaboration with Colette
- Quite The Socialite
- More About Anita Loos
Though she rejected the life of acting for herself, Anita was drawn to the world of film and theater. She began writing film scripts in 1912, and went on to create more than two hundred screenplays for D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Constance Talmage. Between 1912 and 1915, she churned out more than 100 scripts, only a few of which weren’t f...
To escape her stifling home life, Anita married Frank Pallma, Jr., in 1915. The marriage was unsatisfying and lasted only a short time. She had been working with director John Emerson on creating scripts for matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks, and in 1919, they married. In her memoir, she recounted what a disappointment the marriage was: “Instead of li...
Anita Loos was already quite successful as a scriptwriter, but her really big break came when Irving Thalberg of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired her write a script for Red Headed Woman, which was a popular novel. Several other prominent writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, had made a mess of the task. She succeeded, and the hit film that resulted laun...
Going back to the mid-1920s, Anita was on a train to New York City, and observed how the male passengers were falling all over a silly blonde. She used that as the jumping off point for a series of sketches about a gold-digging blonde flapper from Little Rock who came to be called Lorelei Lee. These were published in Harper’s Bazaarmagazine as “The...
In the late 1940s, Anita was hired to adapt the novel Gigi by the French author Colettefor the stage, something that several writers failed at before she stepped in. She and Colette became good friends. Colette herself chose the actress to play the titled role — none other than Audrey Hepburn, for whom it was a Broadway premiere. The show opened in...
Though Anita was quite petite at 4 feet 11 inches and 90 pounds, she was an outsized personality. She had a darkly humorous view of life and loved working as much as she loved having fun, but she had a quick wit and a brilliant mind. Her skill and productivity were admired widely, and she was respected as well as liked by her peers. Her company was...
On this site 1. Quotes by Anita Loos Major Works (fiction) 1. Gentleman Prefer Blondes(1925) 2. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes(1927) 3. A Mouse is Born(1951) 4. No Mother to Guide Her(1961) 5. Fate Keeps on Happening: Adventures of Lorelei Lee and Other Writings(1984) Major works (nonfiction and memoir) 1. A Girl Like I(1966) 2. Kiss Hollywood Good-...
With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid. Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
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- Howard Hawks
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) [a] is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story follows the dalliances of a young blonde gold-digger and flapper named Lorelei Lee "in the bathtub-gin era of American history."
- Anita Loos
- 1925
Directed by Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starred Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy. The film rose to number one in the nation in August 1953 and generated more than $5 million for Fox by the end of the year.
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Starring Russell and Monroe, along with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes, and Norma Varden as supporting characters, the film brims with humor, strong female characters, and captivating musical numbers.
