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Mary Loos. Richard Beers Loos. Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 [1] [2] – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation.
Tiny little Anita Loos, author of the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was the highest paid screen writer in Hollywood for decades. This book is a fun, readable autobiography about both the professional and troubled personal life of a brilliant satirist and every section of her life is hugely entertaining.
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- Anita Loos
Anita Loos (born April 26, 1893?, Sissons [now Mount Shasta], California, U.S.—died August 18, 1981, New York, New York) was an American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play, two musicals, and two films. By the time of her death it had run through 85 ...
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Anita Loos is deservedly famous, a deft writer who covers a fascinating range of milieus in this autobiographical view of pre-1925 San Francisco, Hollywood, New York, and Europe. However, to fit in all the personalities she met in her lifetime, she telescopes years and gets dates wrong.
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Anita Loos. By Gary Carey. New York Alfred A. Knopf. ... In Gary Carey's biography, however, what emerges is a portrait of struggle and frustration. Loos' most famous work is the novel, ...
Jan 1, 1988 · Anita Loos grew up at the same time as the cinema.As a result she was writing screenplays for the likes of Mary Pickford and D.W.Griffiths till the 1920s when her husband the somewhat older John Emerson persuaded her to give up the screen and concentrate on playwriting.As a result her most memorable play,Gentleman Prefer Blondes,was created.Later to be immortalised on film by Marilyn Monroe ...
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- Gary Carey
Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent.
