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	Anita Loos article - Anita Loos April 26 1889 August 18 1981 American screenwriter playwright - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author.
		She was born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California, though the family lived in Etna, the second child of Richard Beers Loos (October 4, 1860-March 6, 1944) and Minnie Ellen Smith (September 16, 1859-October 9, 1938).
		Loos and he were together for only a short time, but she filed for divorce in May 1918 in Los Angeles.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Anita_Loos (790 words)

	Portrait of the screenwriter Anita Loos by Thomas Staedeli
		Anita Loos wrote her probably most famous book called "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Blondinen bevorzugt" in 1926, which was filmed in 1928 for the first time and got the state of cult with the remake with Marilyn Monroe.
		Anita Loos continued her career as a screenwriter successfully in the 30's, she wrote among others the script for D.W. Griffiths last movie "The Struggle" (31) as well as the productions "Red-Headed Woman" (32), "Blondie of the Follies" (32), "San Francisco" (36), "Saratoga" (37) and "The Women" (39).
		Anita Loos survived many of the great stars and she kept the experiences and memories of that time by writing autobiographies and talking about the golden years of Hollywood in TV interviews.
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		Anita Loos and John Emerson are going to start for the golden sunshine of California in January to make their next picture.
		Anita, whom all the world knows stands about four feet eleven in her little silk stockings, is everything one wouldn't expect to find in such a literary genius.
		His wife, who still writes under the name of Anita Loos, is a petite brunette person with a retrousse nose and a weird trick of braiding her hair Indian fashion, which set a vogue among even the blase coiffeurs of Paris.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ialong/Taylor51.txt (11214 words)

	Loos, Anita
		Anita Loos was born on April 26, probably in 1893 (some sources say 1888), in Sissons (now Mount Shasta), California.
		By the age of 20 Loos was a professional screenwriter, and she eventually worked on more than 60 silent films.
		In 1919 Loos married writer-director John Emerson, a frequent collaborator, and in New York City they began writing and producing their own films, notably A Virtuous Vamp (1919), The Perfect Woman (1920), Dangerous Business (1920), Polly of the Follies (1922), and Learning to Love (1925).
	www.britannica.com /women/articles/Loos_Anita.html (401 words)

	University of Delaware - ANITA LOOS LETTERS TO RAY PIERRE CORSINI
		As Loos' father experimented with journalism and the theater in the San Diego area, she became a child actress and for many years provided the family's main source of income.
		The Anita Loos Letters to Ray Pierre Corsini comprises twenty-one letters from American novelist and playwright Anita Loos to her agent and friend, Ray Pierre Corsini, between 1962 and 1979 (Carey, p.
		Loos communicates her joy and frustrations with her works, seeks advice in editorial decisions, and mentions influences upon her works.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/loos.htm (466 words)

	Turner Classic Movies - Movie News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright.
		Cari Beauchamp's new book, Anita Loos Rediscovered (University of California Press), is a unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays that spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent.
		Mary Anita Loos is the author of A Pride of Lovers (1981), The Barstow Legend (1978), Belinda (1976), and The Beggars Are Coming (1974).
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,34952,00.html (466 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Loos promptly began writing the first notes for what would become the hilarious adventures of Lorelei Lee, the flighty but conniving blonde to whom "Fate keeps on happening," and, when finished, sent them to Mencken, who was then editing The American Mercury.
		Loos followed up her hit novel with "But Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes." The sequel is the story of Lorelei's travelling buddy Dorothy, as told by Lorelei.
		Loos was as pretty, as young, and much smarter, but nobody helped her.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141180692?v=glance (1490 words)

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		His Picture in the Paper (1916) was noted for its wry style of discursive and witty subtitles.
		Loos is perhaps best known for her short novel
		Alice White, which Loos also wrote the subtitles for, and a sound version was made in
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Anita_Loos (539 words)

	Mark A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anita Loos, Liminality, and the Literary Field, circa 1925
		The scandal is not that she was once a prostitute, as Loos hints in her subtitle “The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady,” but rather that she once killed a man who took her for one.
		Faulkner had met Anita Loos through Sherwood Anderson in New Orleans earlier that year.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~jenglish/Prestige/Eaton.htm (1978 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Anita Loos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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 novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes, which she adapted for both Broadway and motion pictures.
		It was produced for the screen in 1928, remade in 1953, and eventually became a "break-through" vehicle for Marilyn Monroe.
		As a screenwriter, Loos is generally credited with being one of the creators of what has become recognized as the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, writing scenarios for D.W. Griffith and helping to launch the career of Douglas Fairbanks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200747 (240 words)

	Anita Loos - Anita Loos, Lorelei, Literature, and other stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On this day in 1893 Anita Loos was born.
		Loos started writing scenarios for D. Griffith while she was in her teens, and eventually worked on over sixty films, but her most enduring creation is her 1925 novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
		The play, musical or film versions may be better-known, but the book was an immediate hit and soon translated into over a dozen languages.
	www.todayinliterature.com /stories.asp?Event_Date=4/26/1893 (136 words)

	Anita Loos Rediscovered
		Mary Anita Loos's memoirs about her aunt are loving but honest.
		Her life epitomizes a certain era in show business and describes a Hollywood in which few women were allowed to rise to the top.
		Anita Loos did and we were all the beneficiaries.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9114.html (680 words)

	Anita Loos Life Stories, Books, & Links
		One of Mencken's Laws was "Nature abhors a moron," and one of his favorite pastimes was to attack the South; upon finding itself elevated to "the apex of moronia," Arkansas had apparently had enough.
		One spin-off from the Arkansas-baiting was Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
		Loos started writing scenarios for D. Griffith while in her teens, and eventually worked on over sixty films, but her most enduring creation is the 1925 novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement as "a masterpiece of comic literature."
	todayinliterature.com /biography/anita.loos.asp (237 words)

	Anita Loos - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Anita Loos was born in California in 1888.
		First published in 1925, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a best-seller in thirteen languages and was followed by its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.
		Anita Loos was the author of the novels A Mouse is Born and No Mother to Guide Her and two volumes of autobiography, A Girl Like I and Kiss Hollywood Good-by.
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	Anita Loos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	www.wonderful-people.com /Actors/Silent_movies_actors/index5/Old20021.htm (209 words)

	ANITA LOOS - ANNOTATED TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/04/1963
		I am always the last to know about anything that pertains to me. I never see the old movies because I go to bed too early, but it's nice to know that they are still carrying on.
		" A former child actress, Loos became a screenwriter at age 20, contributing to more than 60 silent films.
		In 1925, she published Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the story of Lorelei Lee, a "dumb blonde" character based on herself, who had a penchant for rich men and diamonds.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2003/authors/ANITA_LOOS.htm (214 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Anita Loos : Main
		American writer Anita Loos' father was a California newspaper publisher who, after enduring a spell of unemployment, became a theatre manager.
		Anita's first taste of show business was as a child actress (playing Little Lord Fauntleroy) in her father's playhouse.
		She continued acting into her teens, then turned to writing, chur...
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	Anita Loos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes";, Anita...
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	Amazon.com -zShops: FIELDS, JOSEPH AND ANITA LOOS (BOOK BY): GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES - PLAYBILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Amazon.com -zShops: FIELDS, JOSEPH AND ANITA LOOS (BOOK BY): GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES - PLAYBILL
		Description: HERMAN LEVIN AND OLIVER SMITH PRESENT: CAROL CHANNING IN "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" A MUSICAL COMEDY - ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY ANITA LOOS - DANCERS AND MUSICAL ENSEMBLES BY AGNES...
		HERMAN LEVIN AND OLIVER SMITH PRESENT: CAROL CHANNING IN "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" A MUSICAL COMEDY - ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY ANITA LOOS - DANCERS AND MUSICAL ENSEMBLES BY AGNES DEMILLE - ETC...
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	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003003883 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003003883
		Table of contents for Anita Loos rediscovered : film treatments and fiction / Anita Loos ; edited and annotated by Cari Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ucal041/2003003883.html (84 words)

	Powell's Books - But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Large Print) by Anita Loos
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