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    American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress and television producer

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    Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – 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.

  2. 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.

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    Writer. Producer. Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New ...

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  4. April 26, 1889 · Sisson, California, USA. Died. August 18, 1981 · New York City, New York, USA (lung infection) Birth name. Corinne Anita Loos. Nicknames. Buggie. Nita. Height. 4′ 11″ (1.50 m) Mini Bio. While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters.

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  5. For most of her adult life, Anita Loos rose at five o’clock each morning to write, and her career in films spanned from 1911 to 1942. Because in addition to motion pictures she continued to write plays and novels, references to her abound in a wide variety of literary histories as well as Hollywood biographies.

  6. December 3, 1988. Anita Loos. By Gary Carey. New York Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ANITA Loos was a Hollywood oddity, a silent movie screenwriter who was almost as famous as the actors for whom...

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  8. May 8, 2018 · Literature and the Arts. Film and Television: Biographies. Anita Loos. Loos, Anita. views 2,760,795 updated May 08 2018. LOOS, Anita. Writer and Producer. Nationality: American. Born: Corinne Anita Loos in Sissons (now Mount Shasta ), California, 26 April 1888. Education: Attended schools in San Francisco and San Diego.

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