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Anita Loos | | Birth Date: |
April 26, 1893 | | Death Date: |
August 18, 1981 | | Place of Birth: |
Sisson, California, United States | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer, actress |
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 Biography of Anita Loos
4,069 words, approx. 14 pages
 "I started life clutching in my childish fist a front-row ticket," wrote Anita Loos, "to that great melodrama, the Twentieth Century." Her first piece was published in the second year of the century, when she was eight years old, and by the end of... summary from source:
Biography of Anita Loos
3,494 words, approx. 12 pages
While Anita Loos is best known for her comic novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (1925), her work includes many stage plays, screenplays, and memoirs of her years in the entertainment industry. Her fiction... summary from source:
 Biography of Anita Loos
1,785 words, approx. 6 pages
Anita Loos (1893-1981) is most famous for her satirical short story collection Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, which became a film phenomenon starring Marilyn Monroe. She was an amazingly prolific writer who...
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 Loos, Anita (1893-1981) Summary
219 words, approx. 1 pages Although known primarily as a screenwriter who authored more than 150 screenplays over three decades—beginning in 1912 and ending with her retreat from Hollywood in 1953—Anita Loos is perhaps best known as the writer of the acclaimed 1925... summary from source:
 Anita Loos Information
1,346 words, approx. 5 pages
Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author. She is considered one of the most renowned screenwriters of her era alongside June Mathis and Frances...
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 Journal of Film and Video Anita Loos Rediscovered
10/01/2004: 1,061 words, approx. 4 pages ANITA LOOS REDISCOVERED Carl Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos. University of California Press, 2003, 312 pp. In 1925, Anita Loos gained lasting fame as the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the novel H. L. Mencken praised as "the first... to make fun of... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Anita Loos: No Lorelei She
11/15/1988: 755 words, approx. 3 pages ANITA LOOS: A Biography, by Gary Carey. Knopf. 331 pp. $24.95. Illustrated. Anita Loos is linked inevitably with her fictional creation, the disarmingly brainless Lorelei Lee, the semi-literate gold-digging narrator of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." There is a tendency, even, to assume that Lorelei... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Briefly a Movie Actress\'d1 Still a Potent Sex Symbol
12/17/2006: 974 words, approx. 3 pagesAmong silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of star in 1928, and was practically out of the movie business by 1930,... summary from source:
The New York Observer Briefly a Movie Actress- Still a Potent Sex Symbol
12/17/2006: 974 words, approx. 3 pagesAmong silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of star in 1928, and was practically out of the movie business by 1930,...
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