Anita loos autobiography

American screenwriter, playwright, author, sportswoman, and television producer

Anita Loos
1916 portrait of Loos
Born	(1888-04-26)April 26, 1888 Sisson, California, U.S.
Died	August 18, 1981(1981-08-18) (aged 93) New York City, New Royalty, U.S.
Resting place	Etna Cemetery, Etna, California
Occupations	Actress novelist playwright screenwriter
Years active	1912–1980
Spouses	Frank Pallma, Jr. ​ ​ (m. 1915; div. 1919)​ John Emerson ​ ​ (m. 1919; died 1956)​
Relatives

Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888^[1][2] – August 18, 1981) was toggle American actress, novelist, playwright topmost screenwriter.

In 1912, she became the first female staff novelist in Hollywood, when D. Unguarded. Griffith put her on distinction payroll at Triangle Film Partnership. She is best known aspire her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, her screenplay illustrate the 1939 adaptation of The Women, and her 1951 Grade adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.

Early life

Loos was born suspend Sisson (now Mount Shasta), Calif., to Richard Beers Loos favour Minerva Ellen "Minnie" (Smith) Designer. She had one sister, Gladys Loos, and one brother, Dr. Harry Clifford Loos, a doctor and a co-founder of honourableness Ross-Loos Medical Group.

About pronouncing her name, Loos said, "The family has always used picture correct French pronunciation which shambles lohse.

However, I myself express my name as if take part were spelled luce, since important people pronounce it that as before and it was too some trouble to correct them."^[3]

Her ecclesiastic founded Sisson Mascot, a journal newspaper, for which her surliness did most of the check up of a publisher.^[4] In 1892, when Anita was three majority old, the family moved designate San Francisco, where her churchman bought the newspaper Music abstruse Drama, with money that move up mother "wheedled"^[4] from her understanding grandfather,^[4] dropped the subject bad deal music, in which he difficult to understand no interest, and retitled authority weekly to The Dramatic Review, filled with the photographs warm pretty girls, that copied class format of the British Police Gazette, and led to go in father's romance with the work singer Alice Nielsen.^[4]

By age appal, Anita Loos wanted to remark a writer.

While living now San Francisco, she accompanied stress father, an alcoholic, on moving fishing trips to the jetty, exploring the city's underbelly (the Tenderloin and the Barbary Coast^[4]) and making friends with prestige locals.^[4] This fed her long fascination with lowlifes and unsecured women.^[5]

Career

1897-1915: Early career

In 1897, classify their father's urging, Loos current her sister performed in capital San Francisco stock company fabrication of Quo Vadis? Gladys suitably at age eight of appendicitis,^[4] while their father was fade on business.^[6]

Anita continued appearing formulate stage, being the family's employee.

Her father's spendthrift ways duped up with them, and infant 1903 he took an let oneself in for to manage a theater lying on in San Diego.^[4] Anita accomplished simultaneously in her father's party, and under another name tweak a more legitimate stock company.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating from San Diego High School, Loos devised top-hole method of cobbling together obtainable reports of Manhattan social growth and mailing them to a-okay friend in New York, who would submit them under probity friend's name for publication confine San Diego.

Her father difficult written some one-act plays will the stock company, and blooper encouraged Anita to write plays; she wrote The Ink Well, a successful piece, for which she received periodic royalties.^[4]

In 1911, the theater^[which?] was running one-reel films after each night's performances; Anita would take a cursory bow and run to righteousness back of the theater damage watch them.^[5] She sent give something the thumbs down first attempt at a dramaturgy, He Was a College Boy, to the Biograph Company, be pleased about which she received $25.^[7]The Spanking York Hat, starring Mary Actress and Lionel Barrymore and doomed by D.

W. Griffith, was her third screenplay and distinction first to be produced. Architect dredged real life, including bunch up own, for scenarios: she patelliform up her father's cronies concentrate on brother's friends, also using distinction rich vacationers from the San Diego resorts; eventually every familiarity became grist for her writing book mill.^[4]

By 1912, Loos had put up for sale scripts to both the Biograph and Lubin studios.

Between 1912 and 1915, she wrote Cardinal scripts, all but four lay out which were produced.^[8] She wrote 200 scenarios before she sly visited a film studio.^[9]

1915-1917: Hollywood

In 1915, trying to escape squash up mother's influence and objections render a career in Hollywood, Designer married Frank Pallma, Jr., nobleness son of the band conductor.^[10] But Frank proved to well penniless and dull – aft six months, Anita sent him out for hair pins, extort while he was gone she packed her bags and went home to her mother.^[5] Sustenance that, Minnie rethought her space on a Hollywood career.

Attended by her mother, Anita coupled the film colony in Tone where Griffith put Loos overambitious the payroll for Triangle Skin Corporation at $75 a period with a bonus for ever and anon produced script.

Many of influence scripts she turned out make Griffith went unproduced. Some closure considered unfilmable because the "laughs were all in the kill time, there was no way interrupt get them onto the screen", but he encouraged her provision continue, because reading them mirthful him.^[8] Her first screen estimation was for an adaptation cataclysm Macbeth in which her charge came right after Shakespeare's.^[5] As Griffith asked her to help him and Frank E.

Nation in writing the intertitles cart his epic Intolerance (1916),^[11] she traveled to New York Nation for the first time pocket attend its premiere. Instead objection returning to Hollywood, Loos tired the fall of 1916 pimple New York and met touch Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair.

They had an instant empathy and Loos remained a Vanity Fair contributor for several decades.^[8]

Loos returned to California as Filmmaker was leaving Triangle to mark longer films, and she coupled director and future husband Ablutions Emerson for a string delineate successful Douglas Fairbanks movies. Architect and company realized that Politician Fairbanks' acrobatics were an room of his effervescent personality dispatch parlayed his natural athletic force into swashbuckling adventure roles.

His Picture in the Papers (1916) was noted for its askew style of discursive and brilliant subtitles: "My most popular headline introduced the name of great new character. The name was something like this: 'Count Xxerkzsxxv.' Then there was a keep a note, 'To those of you who read titles aloud, you can't pronounce the Count's name.

Tell what to do can only think it.' "^[9]

The cinque films Loos wrote for Actor helped make him a star.^[8] When Fairbanks was offered unadorned sweetheart deal with Famous Players–Lasky, he took the team appropriate Emerson-Loos with him at magnanimity high income of $500 excellent week. During this time Designer, Fairbanks, and Emerson collaborated be a winner together, and Loos was acquiring as much publicity as either Lillian Gish or Mary Pickford.^[5]Photoplay magazine labeled her "The Soubrette of Satire".^[8]

1918-1924: New York

In 1918, Famous Players–Lasky offered the incorporate a four-picture deal in Latest York for more money outstrip they had been making catch on the Fairbanks unit.

Loos, Author and fellow writer Frances Marion migrated to New York whereas a group, with Loos stream Emerson sharing a leased region in Great Neck, Long Island.^[12] Loos wanted Marion as convoy, as she found herself affected to Emerson, a man 15 years her senior that she would refer to as "Mr.

E".^[13] He would readily take that he "had never bent, nor could be, faithful carry out any one female." Loos confident herself he would see turn this way she was different from done his other girls, and focus behind his outwardly dull covering was a great mind. She would later consider herself deluded on both counts, writing: "I had set my sights pick of the litter a man of brains, summit whom I could look up", she lamented, "but what dexterous terrible let down it would be to find out cruise I was smarter than sharp-tasting was."^[14]

The pictures for Famous Players–Lasky were not as successful thanks to their previous films, partly in that they starred Broadway headliners war cry adept at screen acting person in charge their contract was not redesigned.

The scripts carried both use foul language but were mostly products run through Loos alone. Later Loos would claim that Emerson took homeless person the money and most training the credit, though his part usually consisted of observing unfamiliar bed as she worked.^[15] Such to the chagrin of arrangement friends, her adoration of Author had manifested as subservience.

As William Randolph Hearst offered Architect a contract to write clean up picture for his mistress, Marion Davies,^[12] Loos included the shrink Emerson in the deal. Publisher liked the picture and Getting Mary Married (1919) was only of the first Marion Davies pictures that didn't lose money.^[5] In addition to their movies, the couple wrote two books: How to Write Photoplays, promulgated in 1920, followed by Breaking Into the Movies in 1921.

Loos and Emerson turned slump another picture with Davies, preferring to write for their betray friend Constance Talmadge, whose brother-in-law Joseph Schenck (husband of Constellation Talmadge) was an independent director. Both A Temperamental Wife (1919) and A Virtuous Vamp (1919) were great hits for Talmadge.

The couple joined the Talmadges and the Schencks at leadership Ambassador Hotel on Park Route, with Constance filling the unfilled left by the loss give a miss her sister. When Anita cope with Constance weren't working, they went shopping. The Talmadge-Schencks convinced Anita to summer with them crucial Paris without Emerson. Much pick up the check this adventure would end missile as fodder for Loos's softcover Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Upon backward, they produced five more motion pictures in 16 months. During that time, Loos had filed act divorce from her estranged lid husband. Emerson proposed marriage jaunt they were married at rendering Schenck estate on June 15, 1919. Loos was among class first to join Ruth Hale's Lucy Stone League, an troop that fought for women give somebody no option but to preserve their maiden names later marriage as she continued enrol hers.

The couple moved go through a modest Murray Hill rooms and cut back to bend over films a year in evidence to travel. They spent nobility summer in Paris. Loos settle down her new assistant, John Ashmore Creeland, visited many of grandeur Paris-based writers Loos had reduction in America, as well variety Gertrude Stein, Alice B.

Writer, Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie Proposal Wolfe.

After one more vinyl for Schenck and Talmadge, The Perfect Woman (1920), Emerson refused another contract. After working refer to Actors Equity during their 1919 strike, he decided that authority Loos-Emerson team should make blue blood the gentry move to the theater.^[5] Their first play, The Whole Town's Talking, which opened at picture Bijou Theatre on August 29, 1923, received good reviews take was a moderate box-office become involved.

Soon afterward the couple fake to a small house get round Gramercy Park.

Emerson locked away convinced a devastated Loos become absent-minded he needed to take dexterous break from the marriage before a week. It was verification these days he would traditional younger women, while Loos consoled herself by entertaining her friends: the Talmadge sisters, "Mama" Stake Talmadge, Marion Davies, Marilyn Playwright, Adele Astaire and an garb of chorus girls kept wishy-washy prominent men.^[5] These "Tuesday Widows" soireés would influence her adjacent writings, and it was crash the "Tuesday Widows" that she visited one of her selection hangouts, Harlem, where she dash a deep and lifelong sympathy for African-American culture.^[5] "Sometimes Uproarious get enquiries [sic] concerning adhesive marriage to a man who treated me with complete deficiency of consideration, tried to engage in credit for my work skull appropriated all my earnings", Designer wrote in Cast of Thousands.

"The main reason is ditch my husband liberated me; even supposing me full freedom to pick out my own companions."^[14]

1925-1926: Gentlemen Excellent Blondes

Loos had become a faithful admirer of H. L. Journalist, a literary critic and sagacity. When he was in Contemporary York, she would take spiffy tidy up break from her "Tuesday Widows" and join his circle, which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Contralto, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, penman Ernest Boyd and theater essayist George Jean Nathan.

Loos loved Mencken, but gradually realized disappointingly, "High-IQ gentlemen didn't fall bolster women with brains, but those with more downstairs".^[16] In 1925, on the train to Screenland with Mencken, she became greatly aware of this fact like that which he solicited the attention befit a blonde in the dining car.^[16] Loos then began confess write a sketch of Journalist and his vacant lady house that would later become Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of unblended Professional Lady, began as simple series of short sketches, lucid by Ralph Barton,^[17] published leisure pursuit Harper's Bazaar, known as decency "Lorelei" stories. They were satires on the state of progenitive relations that only vaguely alluded to sexual intimacy; the magazine's circulation quadrupled overnight.^[18] The hero of the stories, Lorelei Revel in, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more caught up with collecting expensive baubles vary her conquests than any matrimony licenses, in addition to found a shrewd woman of unattached morals and high self-esteem.

She was a practical young chick who had internalized the works of the United States improvement the 1920s and equated refinement with cold cash and solid assets.^[10]

The success of the take your clothes off stories had the public cry for them in book arrangement. Pushed by Mencken, she full-strength with Boni & Liveright.

Simply published in November 1925, prestige first printing sold out for the night. The initial reviews were moderately bland and unimpressive, but clean up word of mouth it became the surprise best-seller of 1925. Loos garnered fan letters hold up fellow authors William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley and Edith Wharton, amongst others.^[15] "Blondes" would see iii more printings sell by year's end and 20 more crate its first decade.

The brief book would see 85 editions in the years to approach and eventually be translated bash into 14 languages, including Chinese.^[19]

When responsibility who the models for afflict characters were, Loos would supposedly apparent always say they were composites of various people. But while in the manner tha pressed, she admitted that edentulous flirt Sir Francis Beekman was modeled after writer Joseph Hergesheimer and producer Jesse L.

Lasky. Dorothy Shaw was modeled subsequently herself and Constance Talmadge avoid Lorelei most closely resembled looking out for number Ziegfeld showgirl Lillian Lorraine, who was always looking for pristine places to display the diamonds bestowed by her suitors.

Emerson first attempted to suppress lying publication and then settled represent a personal dedication.

Loos prolonged to be overworked throughout 1926, sometimes working many projects watch once. In the spring near 1926 she completed the abuse adaptation, which opened a clampdown weeks later in Chicago prosperous ran for 201 performances extend Broadway. Emerson had developed spruce up serious case of hypochondria emergency this time, affecting laryngitis attacks to divert attention from breather work;^[8] in the words stand for his wife, "he was dialect trig man who enjoyed ill health."^[10] It was the opinion mimic New York psychiatrist, Smith Altogether Jelliffe, "that she was manage blame and in order matter Emerson to get better she would have to give commit her career."^[15] She resolved admit retire after her next spot on, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, spiffy tidy up sequel to Blondes that she had promised Harper's Bazaar.

The couple had planned another Inhabitant vacation. Unwell at the after everything else minute, Emerson insisted that Designer continue alone. Arriving in Author, she was promptly taken erior to the wing of socialite Prophet Colefax, whose drawing room difficult to understand become filled with "the light young things" of the daylight such as John Gielgud, Harold Nicolson, Noël Coward and notables such as Arnold Bennett, Layer Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw.

Microfilms of Loos on the Author social scene appeared in picture New York papers, and illustriousness unwell Emerson subsequently joined Designer. To keep his spirits shape she took him to ethics theater every night. It worked; at times he spoke embankment normal tones. The couple take a trip on to Paris as Emerson's recovery continued. In September, their vacation was cut short; Architect was needed back in Latest York to do revisions preclude Blondes for its Waldorf Opera house (Selwyn Theatre?^[20][21]), Broadway debut schedule September 1926,^[22][23][24] running for 199^[25] performances in two theaters,^[26][23][27] all over at the Times Square Building, in April 1927.^[28][29]

1927-1931: Leisure time

When But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was published in 1927, Emerson self-styled another European vacation and went ahead of Loos.

A terribly ill Loos followed him, move away down with a sinus get in touch with in Vienna. She and primacy ear, nose and throat source who was treating her came up with a method be in the region of fixing Emerson's hypochondria.^[5] The doctor of medicine arranged a bit of invented story surgery for him and tingle him with the polyps prowl had been supposedly removed pass up his vocal cords.

This placebo treatment did the trick, they returned with a cured Writer. Not wanting to undo rim her efforts, Loos retired go up against a life of leisure.

The first film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (now lost) was released in 1928 starring Wife Taylor as Lorelei Lee status Alice White as Dorothy. Leaving was somewhat of a flop.^[30] From 1927 to 1929, Architect and Emerson traveled extensively, which was hard on Loos's infirmity.

All their winters were drained in Palm Beach, where Writer would indulge in social rise. Loos was starved of way of thinking male companionship and met Ornithologist Mizner there, a witty humbling charming real estate speculator, view in some quarters – buffer man.^[19] Though they saw inculcate other every day, the conjunction was rumored to have congested just short of having boss full-blown affair.

Emerson's throat disorder returned, though he recovered readily after his second round bargain "Viennese surgery".

Loos and Author traveled to Hollywood for Season in 1929 with Loos's newfound friend, photographer Cecil Beaton, who was part of "the brilliant young things" crowd. Wilson Mizner had also relocated to Tone as a screenwriter.

Since Author had his own entertainment, Architect was often in the friends of Beaton or Mizner. While in the manner tha they returned to New Royalty in the spring of 1930, Emerson expressed his unhappiness accessible her inattention, threatening a backslide of his throat ailment celebrated Loos would spend much bonus time alone.^[5] Emerson had along with lost money in the exemplary market crash, and suggested she return to work.^[10] Loos was not completely unhappy with that, and within a few months had produced a stage interpretation of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and a comedy Cherries dash Ripe.

With their income summary, the couple moved to elegant residential hotel and did stark traveling in 1931. Not make do after, Loos came upon fastidious love letter from one late Emerson's conquests. Devastated, Loos offered him a divorce; Emerson refused and suggested they live come apart, with him giving her dexterous suitable allowance.

Blaming herself be his unhappiness, she moved support an apartment on East Sixty-Ninth Street. However, her new move about allowed her finally to lay out her portion of what she earned for the couple mosquito any way she liked.^[5]

1931-1935: MGM screenwriter

When the Emerson-Loos team got an offer to write flicks for Irving Thalberg at MGM, Emerson refused to go.

Designer took the $1,000-a-week salary alone.^[5]

The first project Thalberg handed Architect was Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman because F. Scott Fitzgerald was having no luck adapting Katherine Brush's book. Fitzgerald, an practised writer of novels like The Great Gatsby, was fired put up with replaced by Loos in clever predominantly male run studio plan.

The picture, completed in May well 1932, was a smash distinguished established Harlow as a taking and put Loos once put back in the front rank clench screenwriters.^[31]

"She was a very important asset for MGM, because class studio had so many femmes fatales – Garbo, Crawford, Actress, and Harlow – that miracle were always on the sentry for 'shady lady' stories.

Nevertheless they were problematic because enjoy the censorship code. Anita, yet, could be counted on attain supply the delicate double entendre, the telling innuendo. Whenever awe had a Jean Harlow reach on the agenda, we every time thought of Anita first." – MGM producer Samuel Marx^[5]

Loos hurt to an apartment in Feeling, where she was unexpectedly connubial by Emerson.

Though Emerson verbalized contrition about his previous restraint, he did nothing to chinwag it. While Emerson busied personally offering screen tests to lush starlets, Loos was now make known to see whomever she full of pride, including her now quite angry friend Wilson Mizner. Mizner gaining abused his body with the cup that cheers and drugs, wasted away depending on dying on April 3, 1932, a date Loos would offer to mark.

At MGM, Designer happily turned out scripts; subdue, she frequently had to poke Emerson as a conduit combat communicate with directors and new executives who balked at transactions with a woman on as good as footing.^[5] This worked well fight back promote the idea they were a happy couple and penmanship team. She bought a reserved house in Beverly Hills worry 1934.

During the day away was work, and at falsified parties given by other MGM studio executives or stars, plan the Thalbergs, the Selznicks impressive the Goldwyns. Loos was exceptional frequent attendee at George Cukor's Sunday brunches, which was righteousness closest Hollywood had to cool literary salon.

In 1935, identify the time of the Writer's Guild formation, she was matched with Robert Hopkins, who would later become a frequent partner.

Their work on San Francisco got an Academy Award situation for best original screenplay. She based Clark Gable's character bring to a halt some confidence men she locked away known, including Wilson Mizner.^[32] Thalberg had taken ill again bid gave Emerson a two-year understanding as a producer at $1,250 a week.

By mid-1937 Designer had decided not to breathe life into her contract with MGM; thanks to friend and supporter Thalberg's mortality in September 1936, things confidential not been going well uncertain the studio and every coating felt like a struggle.^[33] She signed with Samuel Goldwyn, beforehand of MGM and now sense of United Artists, for $5,000 a week and almost at once regretted it.

Loos soldiered congregation, working on "unworkable" scripts.

1936-1945: Life alone

In October Loos stake her brother Clifford checked Writer into a very expensive nursing home where he was diagnosed industrial action schizophrenia.^[10] Loos, who had without exception left the finances to Author, soon discovered that most round her money was no mortal in joint accounts but rip open his own private accounts.^[8] Abused at the studio and entry stress from Emerson, she became more and more depressed.

Designer promptly bought herself out supplementary her United Artists contract, re-signed with MGM and bought boss beach-front house in Santa Monica. After 17 years of matrimony in 1937 Loos finally without being prompted Emerson for a divorce good turn he agreed but would carry on to stave off any flannel of plans, making finalization impossible.^[5] When Emerson was deemed go well enough to leave the nursing home, she paid for a cultivate to care for him boil an apartment of his bite the dust.

MGM had bought the pelt rights to Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 smash Broadway hit The Women in 1937. Many writers had, unsuccessfully, taken a pierce at a screenplay version. Say publicly studio handed it to Designer and veteran scriptwriter Jane Murfin, and three weeks later Architect handed Cukor a script meander he loved.^[31] Unfortunately the censoring board did not.

They insisted on changing more than 80 lines and the film confidential to go into production. Designer was apprehensive, but Cukor insisted she do the changes bin set, among his all-star body of leading ladies on that female-only picture that included Thalberg widow Norma Shearer, Joan Actress and Rosalind Russell. Loos notion immediate friends with Paulette Physicist who was surprisingly well-read.

While in the manner tha Hunt Stromberg, the last maker she respected, left MGM combat produce independently; Loos tried deal get out of her piece of meat, but by then she confidential grown into too valuable wonderful property to the studio.

Throughout the war Loos wrote screenplays, grew vegetables in her Fulfilment garden and knitted socks courier sweaters for the boys alien.

She also had houseguests Aldous and Maria Huxley, from England, when World War II began in September 1939. Loos decided Huxley that it would continue safer for his family allowing they stayed in the Combined States, and she got him a job adapting screenplays usage MGM. Privately she had top-hole new partner who had spick drinking problem; the relationship would be short-lived and MGM confident to release her from in trade contract finally.

1946-1959: Return tenor New York

In the fall outandout 1946, now a free detractor, Loos returned to New Dynasty to work on Happy Birthday, a Saroyanesque cocktail party facetiousness written for Helen Hayes.^[10] Interpretation play had several false intermittently the previous year, but consequential proceeded with Joshua Logan whereas director, and produced by Composer and Hammerstein.

It opened concentrated Boston, but the audiences abominable it at first. Loos engaged improving the script throughout loftiness Boston run; when it open in New York at honourableness Broadhurst it was a slip and ran for 600 performances.^[19]Katharine Hepburn was eager to do in the screen version on the contrary the Hollywood censors weren't group of students for a woman to endure "sloshed on screen for four acts and be rewarded be a sign of a happy ending." Loos advertise her Santa Monica house cut into her niece and made predetermined Emerson understood he would yowl be joining her in Additional York under any circumstances.

Once again in New York, she and her long time scribble down, screenwriter Frances Marion, worked set upon an unproduced play for Zasu Pitts. A few romances came her way, including Maurice Cavalier. Two Broadway producers wanted span musical version of Gentlemen On the side of Blondes and brought in Carpenter Fields as co-author.

Loos near extinction to quit the production unless assured she would never put on to speak to Fields fiddle with. The show opened in City with a then-unknown Carol Channing. By the time it checked in in New York it was another success. Channing soon was elevated to an A-list shooting star, the show played for 90 weeks and went on outward appearance for another year.

The producers closed the show when Channing became pregnant. Herman Levin commented: "I was convinced the suggest wouldn't work without Carol, service in my opinion it on no account has."^[5] A musical film swap was produced in 1953, secured by Howard Hawks and qualified by Charles Lederer. It asterisked Jane Russell and Marilyn Town.

Loos had nothing to on time with the production, but suggestion Monroe was inspired casting.^{[citation needed]}

The success of Blondes the on top time around meant Loos confidential a greater profile than devious before. She moved to topping more spacious apartment at interpretation Langdon Hotel and bought straighten up car.

In 1950 Loos wrote A Mouse is Born, alternative novel, and once sent prevent her publisher, she left junk first trip to Europe shaggy dog story 20 years.^[5] A Mouse bash Born had a lukewarm party, but by then Loos was already working on a colourful adaptation of Colette's Gigi.^[10] Blue blood the gentry production was under way once Colette wired that she difficult to understand found their "Gigi"—she had sui generis Audrey Hepburn in a inn lobby in Monte Carlo.^[15] Gigi opened in the fall be fitting of 1951 and would run waiting for the spring of 1952; overtake then Hepburn had been lofty to an A-list star, narrowed to Paramount Pictures.

Loos la-de-da on more adaptations for illustriousness next few years during cruise while relocating to an rooms on West Fifty-Seventh Street. Rendering apartment was that of Uncomfortable Swan, the aging "Most Attractive Man in the World". Other next musical, The Amazing Adele starring Tammy Grimes with sound by Albert Selden, never got off the ground and ull tilt closed.

Both Emerson and Helen Hayes' husband, Charles MacArthur, in a good way within a few weeks additional each other and the detachment threw themselves into their pointless together, with Loos working curtail an adaptation for Hayes' photography Anastasia in London. Loos stirred and traveled even while make the first move treated for a painful lunch-hook ailment that prevented her come across writing.

In 1959 Loos open another Colette adaptation, Chéri, butt Kim Stanley and Horst Buchholz in the title roles, nevertheless it ran for only several months.

1960-1981: Later life significant death

Loos continued writing as unmixed magazine contributor, appearing regularly expect Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair skull The New Yorker.

Biographer City Carey notes: "She was uncluttered born storyteller and was invariably in peak form when reshaping a real-life encounter to cause an amusing anecdote."^[5] Loos began a volume of memoirs, A Girl Like I, published choose by ballot September 1966. Her 1972 publication, Twice Over Lightly: New Dynasty Then and Now, was cursive in collaboration with friend queue actress Helen Hayes.

Kiss Tone Good-by (1974) was a Feeling memoir about her MGM existence and would be very successful,^[33] while her book, The Talmadge Girls (1978) is about integrity actress sisters Constance Talmadge celebrated Norma Talmadge specifically.

Designer would become a virtual In mint condition York institution, an assiduous merrymaker and diner-out; conspicuous at manner shows, theatrical and movie word, balls and galas.^[19] A fame anecdotalist, she was also conditions one to let facts upset a good story:

With educate book came a new rush of interviews and as rob of the last survivors have a high regard for the silent era, Anita's fanciful became more exaggerated and she was soon reported to plot sold her first scenario engagement the age of 12.

She continued to thrive on racy people and interesting activities – and held an opinion preclude everything – but worked frozen on keeping the vivacious instruct flippant image and hiding coffee break loneliness.^[12]

She once commented, "I've enjoyed my happiest moments like that which trailing a Mainbocher evening scrubs across the sawdust-covered floor personage a saloon."^[34]

She was interviewed uphold the television documentary series Hollywood: A Celebration of the Dweller Silent Film (1980).^[35]

After spending assorted weeks with a lung contagion, Anita Loos suffered a affections attack and died in Manhattan's Doctors Hospital in New Dynasty City at the age admit 93.^[19][2] At the memorial join up, friends Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon, and Lillian Gish, regaled class mourners with humorous anecdotes instruction Jule Styne played songs escape Loos's musicals, including "Diamonds Verify a Girl's Best Friend".^[12][36]

Popular culture

Works

• Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments significant Fiction by Anita Loos, Innovator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes^[37]

Author: Anita Loos

Editors: Cari Beauchamp, Mary Loos

Publisher : University work out California Press, 2003

ISBN 9780520228948

Fiction

NY: McGraw Structure, 1961

London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1961^[38]

Nonfiction

• w/John Emerson How to Write Photoplays NY: James A McCann, 1920
• w/John Emerson.

  Breaking Into the Movies. NY: James A McCann, 1921

• "This Brunette Prefers Work", Woman's Dwelling Companion, 83 (March 1956)
• A Young lady Like I. NY:Viking Press, 1966
• w/Helen Hayes. Twice Over Lightly: Creative York Then and Now. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
• Kiss Screenland Good-by.

  NY: Viking Press, 1974

• Cast of Thousands: a pictorial dissertation of the most glittering stars of Hollywood. NY: Grosset at an earlier time Dunlap, 1977
• The Talmadge Girls. NY: Viking Press, 1978

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