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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. 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. (From Wikipedia) More about Anita Loos:
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| | Books by Anita Loos: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: Breaking Into the Movies (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1921), also by John Emerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928), illust. by Ralph Barton
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925), illust. by Ralph Barton
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), illust. by Ralph Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (London: Brentano's, 1926), illust. by Ralph Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
Additional books by Anita Loos in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "... Mutta -- naivat tummaverisiä" (in Finnish), trans. by Valfrid Hedman (Gutenberg ebook)- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "Gentlemen prefer blondes"; the illuminating diary of a professional lady, by Anita Loos, intimately illustrated by Ralph Barton. (Boni & Liveright, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: "Herrat pitävät vaaleaverisistä" : Tuloillaan elävän naisen valaiseva päiväkirja (in Finnish), trans. by Valfrid Hedman (Gutenberg ebook)
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: How to write photoplays (James A. McCann, 1920), also by John Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Loos, Anita, 1893-1981: Los caballeros las prefieren rubias : diario revelador de una señorita profesional (Atenea, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
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