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Anita Loos

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Book Writer 1889–1981

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. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, her screenplay of the 1939 adaptation of The Women, and her 1951 Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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  • Based on the 1950 play Le don d’Adele (Adele’s gift) by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (which in turn was adapted by Anita Loos as the nonmusical The Amazing Adele , which opened in regional theatre in 1950).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Based on Anita Loos’ popular 1926 novel and play of the same name, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes took a satirical look at the wild and wacky Twenties, though there was no attempt at parodying the songs and styles as in the manner of Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend. Carol Channing, in her first major role, scored such a success as the gold-diggin…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Gigi was a 1944 novel by Colette, a French film, and a 1951 Broadway play, adapted by Anita Loos and starring Audrey Hepburn, before it reached its most successful incarnation, the 1958 movie musical written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as their first project after My Fair Lady. Lerner and Loewe had split after writing Camelot i…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Author Anita Loos's greatest creation was Lorelei Lee, the ultimate gold digger with a heart (and other key parts) of gold. A success as a novel in 1925, Gentlemen Prefer- Blondes told the story of how a girl from the wrong side of the tracks loses her virtue-hut wins fame, fortune, and, yes, even true love. The cheerful vice-rewarded sto…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • Getting Anita Loos’s famous peroxide heroine to London for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Princes Theatre, 20 August 1962, then Strand Theatre; 220) took twelve years. The lady had, naturally, aged. Broadway’s blonde had been Carol Channing, but neither she nor any other American star was cast for the West End. Dora Bryan had spent the 1950s i…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin; book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, adapted from the novel by Anita Loosebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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