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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3" title="آنیتا لوس – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="آنیتا لوس" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%81" title="Анита Лус – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Анита Лус" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loosov%C3%A1" title="Anita Loosová – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Anita Loosová" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3" title="آنیتا لوس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آنیتا لوس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1" title="אניטה לוס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אניטה לוס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Anita Loos" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Anita Loos</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/220px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/330px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/440px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1245" data-file-height="1655" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">1916 portrait of Loos</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1888-04-26</span>)</span>April 26, 1888<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta,_California" title="Mount Shasta, California">Sisson</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 18, 1981<span style="display:none">(1981-08-18)</span> (aged 93)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Etna Cemetery, <a href="/wiki/Etna,_California" title="Etna, California">Etna, California</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · 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ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Frank Pallma, Jr.</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1915; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1919)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712" /></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/John_Emerson_(filmmaker)" title="John Emerson (filmmaker)">John Emerson</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1919; died 1956)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Loos" title="Mary Loos">Mary Loos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Beers_Loos" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Beers Loos">Richard Beers Loos</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b> Corinne Anita Loos</b> (April 26, 1888<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_(film_industry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hollywood (film industry)">Hollywood</a>, when <a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a> put her on the payroll at <a href="/wiki/Triangle_Film_Corporation" title="Triangle Film Corporation">Triangle Film Corporation</a>. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i>, her screenplay of the 1939 adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Women_(1939_film)" title="The Women (1939 film)">The Women</a></i>, and her 1951 <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Colette" title="Colette">Colette</a>'s novella <i><a href="/wiki/Gigi_(novella)" title="Gigi (novella)">Gigi</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Loos was born in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta,_California" title="Mount Shasta, California">Sisson</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Mount_Shasta,_California" title="Mount Shasta, California">Mount Shasta</a>), <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Beers_Loos" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Beers Loos">Richard Beers Loos and Minerva Ellen "Minnie" (Smith) Loos</a>. She had one sister, Gladys Loos, and one brother, Dr. Harry Clifford Loos, a physician and a co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Ross-Loos_Medical_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ross-Loos Medical Group">Ross-Loos Medical Group</a>. </p><p>About pronouncing her name, Loos said, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is <i>lohse</i>. However, I myself pronounce my name as if it were spelled <i>luce</i>, since most people pronounce it that way and it was too much trouble to correct them."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her father founded <i>Sisson Mascot</i>, a tabloid newspaper, for which her mother did most of the work of a publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1892, when Anita was three years old, the family moved to San Francisco, where her father bought the newspaper <i>Music and Drama</i>, with money that her mother "wheedled"<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from her maternal grandfather,<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dropped the subject of music, in which he had no interest, and retitled the weekly to <i>The Dramatic Review</i>, filled with the photographs of pretty girls, that copied the format of the British <i><a href="/wiki/Police_Gazette_(Great_Britain_and_Ireland)" title="Police Gazette (Great Britain and Ireland)">Police Gazette</a></i>, and led to her father's romance with the opera singer <a href="/wiki/Alice_Nielsen" title="Alice Nielsen">Alice Nielsen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By age six, Anita Loos wanted to be a writer. While living in San Francisco, she accompanied her father, an alcoholic, on exciting fishing trips to the pier, exploring the city's underbelly (the Tenderloin and the <i>Barbary Coast</i><sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and making friends with the locals.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This fed her lifelong fascination with lowlifes and loose women.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1897-1915:_Early_career">1897-1915: Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1897-1915: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1897, at their father's urging, Loos and her sister performed in a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> stock company production of <i>Quo Vadis?</i> Gladys died at age eight of appendicitis,<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while their father was away on business.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Anita continued appearing on stage, being the family's breadwinner. Her father's spendthrift ways caught up with them, and in 1903 he took an offer to manage a theater company in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anita performed simultaneously in her father's company, and under another name with a more legitimate stock company.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After graduating from <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_High_School" title="San Diego High School">San Diego High School</a>, Loos devised a method of cobbling together published reports of Manhattan social life and mailing them to a friend in New York, who would submit them under the friend's name for publication in San Diego. Her father had written some one-act plays for the stock company, and he encouraged Anita to write plays; she wrote <i>The Ink Well</i>, a successful piece, for which she received periodic royalties.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1911, the theater<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (June 2021)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> was running one-reel films after each night's performances; Anita would take a perfunctory bow and run to the back of the theater to watch them.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She sent her first attempt at a screenplay, <i>He Was a College Boy</i>, to the <a href="/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograph_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="American Mutoscope and Biograph Company">Biograph Company</a>, for which she received $25.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Hat" title="The New York Hat">The New York Hat</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Barrymore" title="Lionel Barrymore">Lionel Barrymore</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a>, was her third screenplay and the first to be produced. Loos dredged real life, including her own, for scenarios: she dished up her father's cronies and brother's friends, also using the rich vacationers from the San Diego resorts; eventually every experience became grist for her script mill.<sup id="cite_ref-Loos_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1912, Loos had sold scripts to both the <a href="/wiki/Biograph_Studios" title="Biograph Studios">Biograph</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lubin_Manufacturing_Company" title="Lubin Manufacturing Company">Lubin</a> studios. Between 1912 and 1915, she wrote 105 scripts, all but four of which were produced.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She wrote 200 scenarios before she ever visited a film studio.<sup id="cite_ref-Schmidt_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schmidt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1915-1917:_Hollywood">1915-1917: Hollywood</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1915-1917: Hollywood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg/220px-Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg/330px-Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg/440px-Loos-onLiberator-Apr1918.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="2200" /></a><figcaption>Stylized cover drawing of Anita Loos by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Walts" title="Frank Walts">Frank Walts</a> on the April 1918 issue of <i>The Liberator</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1915, trying to escape her mother's influence and objections to a career in Hollywood, Loos married Frank Pallma, Jr., the son of the band conductor.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But Frank proved to be penniless and dull – after six months, Anita sent him out for hair pins, and while he was gone she packed her bags and went home to her mother.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After that, Minnie rethought her position on a Hollywood career. Accompanied by her mother, Anita joined the film colony in Hollywood where <a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">Griffith</a> put Loos on the payroll for <a href="/wiki/Triangle_Film_Corporation" title="Triangle Film Corporation">Triangle Film Corporation</a> at $75 a week with a bonus for every produced script. </p><p>Many of the scripts she turned out for Griffith went unproduced. Some he considered unfilmable because the "laughs were all in the lines, there was no way to get them onto the screen", but he encouraged her to continue, because reading them amused him.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her first screen credit was for an adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> in which her billing came right after <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>'s.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Griffith asked her to assist him and <a href="/wiki/Frank_E._Woods" title="Frank E. Woods">Frank E. Woods</a> in writing the <a href="/wiki/Intertitle" title="Intertitle">intertitles</a> for his epic <i><a href="/wiki/Intolerance_(film)" title="Intolerance (film)">Intolerance</a></i> (1916),<sup id="cite_ref-Frost_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frost-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she traveled to New York City for the first time to attend its premiere. Instead of returning to Hollywood, Loos spent the fall of 1916 in New York and met with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Crowninshield" title="Frank Crowninshield">Frank Crowninshield</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(American_magazine_1913-1936)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913-1936)">Vanity Fair</a></i>. They had an instant rapport and Loos remained a <i>Vanity Fair</i> contributor for several decades.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Loos returned to California as Griffith was leaving Triangle to make longer films, and she joined director and future husband <a href="/wiki/John_Emerson_(filmmaker)" title="John Emerson (filmmaker)">John Emerson</a> for a string of successful <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" title="Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> movies. Loos and company realized that Douglas Fairbanks' acrobatics were an extension of his effervescent personality and parlayed his natural athletic ability into swashbuckling adventure roles. <i><a href="/wiki/His_Picture_in_the_Papers" title="His Picture in the Papers">His Picture in the Papers</a></i> (1916) was noted for its wry style of discursive and witty <a href="/wiki/Subtitle_(captioning)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subtitle (captioning)">subtitles</a>: "My most popular subtitle introduced the name of a new character. The name was something like this: 'Count Xxerkzsxxv.' Then there was a note, 'To those of you who read titles aloud, you can't pronounce the Count's name. You can only think it.' "<sup id="cite_ref-Schmidt_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schmidt-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The five films Loos wrote for Fairbanks helped make him a star.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Fairbanks was offered a sweetheart deal with <a href="/wiki/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky" title="Famous Players–Lasky">Famous Players–Lasky</a>, he took the team of Emerson-Loos with him at the high income of $500 a week. During this time Loos, Fairbanks, and Emerson collaborated well together, and Loos was getting as much publicity as either <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Gish" title="Lillian Gish">Lillian Gish</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Photoplay" title="Photoplay">Photoplay</a></i> magazine labeled her "The Soubrette of Satire".<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1918-1924:_New_York">1918-1924: New York</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1918-1924: New York"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1918, <a href="/wiki/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky" title="Famous Players–Lasky">Famous Players–Lasky</a> offered the couple a four-picture deal in New York for more money than they had been making with the Fairbanks unit. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emerson_Loos_Wedding_1919.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Emerson_Loos_Wedding_1919.jpg/220px-Emerson_Loos_Wedding_1919.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Emerson_Loos_Wedding_1919.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="301" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption>Loos and Emerson at their wedding on June 28, 1919 in <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Loos, Emerson and fellow writer <a href="/wiki/Frances_Marion" title="Frances Marion">Frances Marion</a> migrated to New York as a group, with Loos and Emerson sharing a leased mansion in Great Neck, Long Island.<sup id="cite_ref-Beauchamp_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauchamp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos wanted Marion as chaperone, as she found herself attracted to Emerson, a man 15 years her senior that she would refer to as "Mr. E".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He would readily admit that he "had never been, nor could be, faithful to any one female." Loos convinced herself he would see that she was different from all his other girls, and that behind his outwardly dull exterior was a great mind. She would later consider herself misled on both counts, writing: "I had set my sights on a man of brains, to whom I could look up", she lamented, "but what a terrible let down it would be to find out that I was smarter than he was."<sup id="cite_ref-Loos2_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos2-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The pictures for Famous Players–Lasky were not as successful as their previous films, partly because they starred Broadway headliners not adept at screen acting and their contract was not renewed. The scripts carried both names but were mostly products of Loos alone. Later Loos would claim that Emerson took all the money and most of the credit, though his contribution usually consisted of observing from bed as she worked.<sup id="cite_ref-Gale_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gale-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much to the chagrin of her friends, her adoration of Emerson had manifested as subservience. When <a href="/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst" title="William Randolph Hearst">William Randolph Hearst</a> offered Loos a contract to write a picture for his mistress, <a href="/wiki/Marion_Davies" title="Marion Davies">Marion Davies</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Beauchamp_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauchamp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos included the unnecessary Emerson in the deal. Hearst liked the picture and <i><a href="/wiki/Getting_Mary_Married" title="Getting Mary Married">Getting Mary Married</a></i> (1919) was one of the first Marion Davies pictures that didn't lose money.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to their films, the couple wrote two books: <i>How to Write Photoplays</i>, published in 1920, followed by <i>Breaking Into the Movies</i> in 1921. </p><p>Loos and Emerson turned down another picture with Davies, preferring to write for their old friend <a href="/wiki/Constance_Talmadge" title="Constance Talmadge">Constance Talmadge</a>, whose brother-in-law <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Schenck" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Schenck">Joseph Schenck</a> (husband of <a href="/wiki/Norma_Talmadge" title="Norma Talmadge">Norma Talmadge</a>) was an independent producer. Both <i><a href="/wiki/A_Temperamental_Wife" title="A Temperamental Wife">A Temperamental Wife</a></i> (1919) and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Virtuous_Vamp" title="A Virtuous Vamp">A Virtuous Vamp</a></i> (1919) were great hits for Talmadge. The couple joined the Talmadges and the Schencks at the Ambassador Hotel on <a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue_(Manhattan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Park Avenue (Manhattan)">Park Avenue</a>, with Constance filling the void left by the loss of her sister. When Anita and Constance weren't working, they went shopping. The Talmadge-Schencks convinced Anita to summer with them in Paris without Emerson. Much of this adventure would end up as fodder for Loos's book <i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i>. </p><p>Upon returning, they produced five more films in 16 months. During this time, Loos had filed for divorce from her estranged first husband. Emerson proposed marriage and they were married at the Schenck estate on June 15, 1919. Loos was among the first to join <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Hale_(feminist)" title="Ruth Hale (feminist)">Ruth Hale</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Stone_League" title="Lucy Stone League">Lucy Stone League</a>, an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names after marriage as she continued with hers. </p><p>The couple moved into a modest <a href="/wiki/Murray_Hill,_Manhattan" title="Murray Hill, Manhattan">Murray Hill</a> apartment and cut back to two films a year in order to travel. They spent the summer in Paris. Loos and her new assistant, John Ashmore Creeland, visited many of the Paris-based writers Loos had met in America, as well as <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Stein" title="Gertrude Stein">Gertrude Stein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas" title="Alice B. Toklas">Alice B. Toklas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Marbury" title="Elisabeth Marbury">Elisabeth Marbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elsie_De_Wolfe" class="mw-redirect" title="Elsie De Wolfe">Elsie De Wolfe</a>. </p><p>After one more film for Schenck and Talmadge, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfect_Woman_(1920_film)" title="The Perfect Woman (1920 film)">The Perfect Woman</a></i> (1920), Emerson refused another contract. After working with <a href="/wiki/Actors_Equity" class="mw-redirect" title="Actors Equity">Actors Equity</a> during their 1919 strike, he decided that the Loos-Emerson team should make the move to the theater.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their first play, <i>The Whole Town's Talking</i>, which opened at the <a href="/wiki/Bijou_Theatre_(Manhattan,_1917)" title="Bijou Theatre (Manhattan, 1917)">Bijou Theatre</a> on August 29, 1923, received good reviews and was a moderate box-office success. Soon afterward the couple moved to a small house in <a href="/wiki/Gramercy_Park" title="Gramercy Park">Gramercy Park</a>. </p><p> Emerson had convinced a devastated Loos that he needed to take a break from the marriage once a week. It was on these days he would date younger women, while Loos consoled herself by entertaining her friends: the Talmadge sisters, "Mama" Peg Talmadge, <a href="/wiki/Marion_Davies" title="Marion Davies">Marion Davies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Miller" title="Marilyn Miller">Marilyn Miller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adele_Astaire" title="Adele Astaire">Adele Astaire</a> and an assortment of chorus girls kept by prominent men.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These "Tuesday Widows" soireés would influence her later writings, and it was with the "Tuesday Widows" that she visited one of her favorite hangouts, Harlem, where she developed a deep and lifelong appreciation for African-American culture.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Sometimes I get enquiries  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] concerning my marriage to a man who treated me with complete lack of consideration, tried to take credit for my work and appropriated all my earnings", Loos wrote in <i>Cast of Thousands</i>. "The main reason is that my husband liberated me; granted me full freedom to choose my own companions."<sup id="cite_ref-Loos2_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Loos2-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anita_Loos_and_John_Emerson_by_Edward_Steichen.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Anita_Loos_and_John_Emerson_by_Edward_Steichen.JPG/260px-Anita_Loos_and_John_Emerson_by_Edward_Steichen.JPG" decoding="async" width="260" height="325" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Anita_Loos_and_John_Emerson_by_Edward_Steichen.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Anita Loos and John Emerson in <a href="/wiki/Edward_Steichen" title="Edward Steichen">Edward Steichen</a> photo for <a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(American_magazine_1913-1936)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913-1936)">Vanity Fair</a>, July 1928</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1925-1926:_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes">1925-1926: <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1925-1926: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Loos had become a devoted admirer of <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, a literary critic and intellect. When he was in New York, she would take a break from her "Tuesday Widows" and join his circle, which included <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser" title="Theodore Dreiser">Theodore Dreiser</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson" title="Sherwood Anderson">Sherwood Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis" title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hergesheimer" title="Joseph Hergesheimer">Joseph Hergesheimer</a>, essayist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Boyd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest Boyd (page does not exist)">Ernest Boyd</a> and theater critic <a href="/wiki/George_Jean_Nathan" title="George Jean Nathan">George Jean Nathan</a>. Loos adored Mencken, but gradually realized disappointingly, "High-IQ gentlemen didn't fall for women with brains, but those with more downstairs".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1925, on the train to Hollywood with Mencken, she became keenly aware of this fact when he solicited the attention of a blonde in the dining car.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos then began to write a sketch of Mencken and his vacant lady friends that would later become <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady</a>,</i> began as a series of short sketches, illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Barton" title="Ralph Barton">Ralph Barton</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> published in <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar" title="Harper's Bazaar">Harper's Bazaar</a></i>, known as the "Lorelei" stories. They were satires on the state of sexual relations that only vaguely alluded to sexual intimacy; the magazine's circulation quadrupled overnight.<sup id="cite_ref-acker_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acker-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The heroine of the stories, Lorelei Lee, was a bold, ambitious <a href="/wiki/Flapper" title="Flapper">flapper</a>, who was much more concerned with collecting expensive baubles from her conquests than any marriage licenses, in addition to being a shrewd woman of loose morals and high self-esteem. She was a practical young woman who had internalized the materialism of the United States in the 1920s and equated culture with cold cash and tangible assets.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The success of the short stories had the public clamoring for them in book form. Pushed by Mencken, she signed with <a href="/wiki/Boni_%26_Liveright" title="Boni & Liveright">Boni & Liveright</a>. Modestly published in November 1925, the first printing sold out overnight. The initial reviews were rather bland and unimpressive, but through word of mouth it became the surprise best-seller of 1925. Loos garnered fan letters from fellow authors <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a>, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-Gale_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gale-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<i>Blondes</i>" would see three more printings sell by year's end and 20 more in its first decade. The little book would see 85 editions in the years to come and eventually be translated into 14 languages, including Chinese.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When asked who the models for her characters were, Loos would almost always say they were composites of various people. But when pressed, she admitted that toothless flirt Sir Francis Beekman was modeled after writer <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hergesheimer" title="Joseph Hergesheimer">Joseph Hergesheimer</a> and producer <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Louis_Lasky" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesse Louis Lasky">Jesse L. Lasky</a>. Dorothy Shaw was modeled after herself and Constance Talmadge and Lorelei most closely resembled acquisitive <a href="/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies" title="Ziegfeld Follies">Ziegfeld</a> showgirl <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Lorraine" title="Lillian Lorraine">Lillian Lorraine</a>, who was always looking for new places to display the diamonds bestowed by her suitors. </p><p>Emerson first attempted to suppress its publication and then settled for a personal dedication. Loos continued to be overworked throughout 1926, sometimes working many projects at once. In the spring of 1926 she completed the stage adaptation, which opened a few weeks later in Chicago and ran for 201 performances on Broadway. Emerson had developed a serious case of <a href="/wiki/Hypochondriasis" title="Hypochondriasis">hypochondria</a> by this time, affecting <a href="/wiki/Laryngitis" title="Laryngitis">laryngitis</a> attacks to divert attention from her work;<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the words of his wife, "he was a man who enjoyed ill health."<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the opinion of New York psychiatrist, Smith Ely Jelliffe, "that she was to blame and in order for Emerson to get better she would have to give up her career."<sup id="cite_ref-Gale_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gale-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She resolved to retire after her next book, <i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i>, a sequel to <i>Blondes</i> that she had promised <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>. </p><p>The couple had planned another European vacation. Unwell at the last minute, Emerson insisted that Loos continue alone. Arriving in London, she was promptly taken under the wing of socialite <a href="/wiki/Sibyl_Colefax" title="Sibyl Colefax">Sibyl Colefax</a>, whose drawing room had become filled with "the bright young things" of the day such as <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Nicolson" title="Harold Nicolson">Harold Nicolson</a>, <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> and notables such as <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Bennett" title="Arnold Bennett">Arnold Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Beerbohm" title="Max Beerbohm">Max Beerbohm</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">Bernard Shaw</a>. Photos of Loos on the London social scene appeared in the New York papers, and the unwell Emerson subsequently joined Loos. To keep his spirits up she took him to the theater every night. It worked; at times he spoke in normal tones. The couple traveled on to Paris as Emerson's recovery continued. In September, their vacation was cut short; Loos was needed back in New York to do revisions on <i>Blondes</i> for its <a href="/wiki/The_Shubert_Organization#Waldorf_Theatre_(Broadway)" title="The Shubert Organization">Waldorf Theatre</a> (<a href="/wiki/Selwyn_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Selwyn Theatre">Selwyn Theatre</a>?<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ibdb_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibdb-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Broadway debut in September 1926,<sup id="cite_ref-HG_p._201_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HG_p._201-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt-1926-09-29_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1926-09-29-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> running for 199<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> performances in two theaters,<sup id="cite_ref-HG_p._202_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HG_p._202-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt-1926-09-29_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1926-09-29-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Broadway_League_1926_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Broadway_League_1926-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> closing at the <a href="/wiki/Times_Square_Theater" title="Times Square Theater">Times Square Theater</a>, in April 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1927-1931:_Leisure_time">1927-1931: Leisure time</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1927-1931: Leisure time"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anita_loos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Anita_loos.jpg" decoding="async" width="153" height="210" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="153" data-file-height="210" /></a><figcaption>Anita Loos <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1930s</figcaption></figure> <p>When <i>But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</i> was published in 1927, Emerson proposed another European vacation and went ahead of Loos. A seriously ill Loos followed him, coming down with a sinus attack in Vienna. She and the <a href="/wiki/Otolaryngology" class="mw-redirect" title="Otolaryngology">ear, nose and throat</a> specialist who was treating her came up with a method of fixing Emerson's hypochondria.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The doctor arranged a bit of sham surgery for him and presented him with the <a href="/wiki/Polyp_(medicine)" title="Polyp (medicine)">polyps</a> that had been supposedly removed from his vocal cords. This placebo treatment did the trick, they returned with a cured Emerson. Not wanting to undo all her efforts, Loos retired to a life of leisure. </p><p>The first film version of <i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(lost_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (now lost) was released in 1928 starring <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Taylor_(actress)" title="Ruth Taylor (actress)">Ruth Taylor</a> as Lorelei Lee and <a href="/wiki/Alice_White" title="Alice White">Alice White</a> as Dorothy. It was somewhat of a flop.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1927 to 1929, Loos and Emerson traveled extensively, which was hard on Loos's health. All their winters were spent in Palm Beach, where Emerson would indulge in social climbing. Loos was starved of intellectual male companionship and met <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Mizner" title="Wilson Mizner">Wilson Mizner</a> there, a witty and charming real estate speculator, and in some quarters – <a href="/wiki/Confidence_trick" class="mw-redirect" title="Confidence trick">confidence man</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though they saw each other every day, the relationship was rumored to have stopped just short of having a full-blown affair. Emerson's throat ailment returned, though he recovered quickly after his second round of "Viennese surgery". </p><p>Loos and Emerson traveled to Hollywood for Christmas in 1929 with Loos's new friend, photographer <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Beaton" title="Cecil Beaton">Cecil Beaton</a>, who was part of "the bright young things" crowd. Wilson Mizner had also relocated to Hollywood as a screenwriter. Since Emerson had his own entertainment, Loos was often in the company of Beaton or Mizner. When they returned to New York in the spring of 1930, Emerson expressed his unhappiness at her inattention, threatening a relapse of his throat ailment and Loos would spend much more time alone.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Emerson had also lost money in <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Crash of 1929">the stock market crash</a>, and suggested she return to work.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos was not completely unhappy with this, and within a few months had produced a stage adaptation of <i>But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</i> and a comedy <i>Cherries are Ripe</i>. </p><p>With their income reduced, the couple moved to a residential hotel and did less traveling in 1931. Not long after, Loos came upon a love letter from one of Emerson's conquests. Devastated, Loos offered him a divorce; Emerson refused and suggested they live apart, with him giving her a suitable allowance. Blaming herself for his unhappiness, she moved to an apartment on East Sixty-Ninth Street. However, her new life allowed her finally to spend her portion of what she earned for the couple in any way she liked.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931-1935:_MGM_screenwriter">1931-1935: MGM screenwriter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1931-1935: MGM screenwriter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the Emerson-Loos team got an offer to write pictures for <a href="/wiki/Irving_Thalberg" title="Irving Thalberg">Irving Thalberg</a> at <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">MGM</a>, Emerson refused to go. Loos took the $1,000-a-week salary alone.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Studio_Promo_Anita_Loos_Jean_Harlow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Studio_Promo_Anita_Loos_Jean_Harlow.jpg/320px-Studio_Promo_Anita_Loos_Jean_Harlow.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Studio_Promo_Anita_Loos_Jean_Harlow.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="362" data-file-height="274" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Jean Harlow and Anita Loos in a publicity photo for <i>Red-Headed Woman</i> (1932) that pokes fun at her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in the hands of Harlow (a famous blonde who wore a red wig for the role).</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The first project Thalberg handed Loos was <a href="/wiki/Jean_Harlow" title="Jean Harlow">Jean Harlow</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Red-Headed_Woman" title="Red-Headed Woman">Red-Headed Woman</a></i> because <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> was having no luck adapting <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Brush" class="mw-redirect" title="Katherine Brush">Katherine Brush</a>'s book. Fitzgerald, an accomplished writer of novels like <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a>,</i> was fired and replaced by Loos in a predominantly male run studio system. The picture, completed in May 1932, was a smash and established Harlow as a star and put Loos once again in the front rank of screenwriters.<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"She was a very valuable asset for MGM, because the studio had so many femmes fatales – <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Garbo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Crawford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moira_Shearer" title="Moira Shearer">Shearer</a>, and Harlow – that we were always on the lookout for 'shady lady' stories. But they were problematic because of the censorship code. Anita, however, could be counted on to supply the delicate double entendre, the telling innuendo. Whenever we had a Jean Harlow picture on the agenda, we always thought of Anita first." – MGM producer <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Marx" title="Samuel Marx">Samuel Marx</a><sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Loos moved to an apartment in Hollywood, where she was unexpectedly joined by Emerson. Though Emerson expressed contrition about his previous behavior, he did nothing to change it. While Emerson busied himself offering screen tests to young starlets, Loos was now free to see whomever she pleased, including her now quite ill friend Wilson Mizner. Mizner having abused his body with alcohol and drugs, wasted away until dying on April 3, 1932, a date Loos would continue to mark. </p><p>At MGM, Loos happily turned out scripts; however, she frequently had to use Emerson as a conduit to communicate with directors and other executives who balked at dealing with a woman on equal footing.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This worked well to promote the idea they were a happy couple and writing team. She bought a modest house in Beverly Hills in 1934. During the day it was work, and at night parties given by other MGM studio executives or stars, like the Thalbergs, the Selznicks and the Goldwyns. Loos was a frequent attendee at <a href="/wiki/George_Cukor" title="George Cukor">George Cukor</a>'s Sunday brunches, which was the closest Hollywood had to a literary salon. </p><p>In 1935, about the time of the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_west" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America, west">Writer's Guild</a> formation, she was paired with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hopkins_(screenwriter)" title="Robert Hopkins (screenwriter)">Robert Hopkins</a>, who would later become a frequent collaborator. Their work on <i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_(1936_film)" title="San Francisco (1936 film)">San Francisco</a></i> got an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. She based <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a>'s character on some confidence men she had known, including Wilson Mizner.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thalberg had taken ill again and gave Emerson a two-year contract as a producer at $1,250 a week. By mid-1937 Loos had decided not to renew her contract with MGM; since friend and supporter Thalberg's death in September 1936, things had not been going well at the studio and every film felt like a struggle.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She signed with <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn" title="Samuel Goldwyn">Samuel Goldwyn</a>, formerly of MGM and now head of <a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a>, for $5,000 a week and almost immediately regretted it. Loos soldiered on, working on "unworkable" scripts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1936-1945:_Life_alone">1936-1945: Life alone</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1936-1945: Life alone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October Loos and her brother Clifford checked Emerson into a very expensive sanatorium where he was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos, who had always left the finances to Emerson, soon discovered that most of her money was no longer in joint accounts but in his own private accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-Norman_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Norman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Overworked at the studio and under stress from Emerson, she became more and more depressed. Loos promptly bought herself out of her United Artists contract, re-signed with MGM and bought a beach-front house in Santa Monica. After 17 years of marriage in 1937 Loos finally asked Emerson for a divorce and he agreed but would continue to stave off any talk of plans, making finalization impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Emerson was deemed well enough to leave the sanatorium, she paid for a nurse to care for him in an apartment of his own. </p><p>MGM had bought the film rights to <a href="/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce" title="Clare Boothe Luce">Clare Boothe Luce</a>'s 1936 smash Broadway hit <i><a href="/wiki/The_Women_(play)" title="The Women (play)">The Women</a></i> in 1937. Many writers had, unsuccessfully, taken a stab at a screenplay version. The studio handed it to Loos and veteran scriptwriter <a href="/wiki/Jane_Murfin" title="Jane Murfin">Jane Murfin</a>, and three weeks later Loos handed Cukor a script that he loved.<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unfortunately the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Production Code">censorship board</a> did not. They insisted on changing more than 80 lines and the film had to go into production. Loos was apprehensive, but Cukor insisted she do the changes on set, among his all-star bevy of leading ladies on this female-only picture that included Thalberg widow <a href="/wiki/Norma_Shearer" title="Norma Shearer">Norma Shearer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosalind_Russell" title="Rosalind Russell">Rosalind Russell</a>. Loos made immediate friends with <a href="/wiki/Paulette_Goddard" title="Paulette Goddard">Paulette Goddard</a> who was surprisingly well-read. When <a href="/wiki/Hunt_Stromberg" title="Hunt Stromberg">Hunt Stromberg</a>, the last producer she respected, left MGM to produce independently; Loos tried to get out of her contract, but by then she had grown into too valuable a property to the studio. </p><p>Throughout the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">war</a> Loos wrote screenplays, grew vegetables in her <a href="/wiki/Victory_garden" title="Victory garden">Victory garden</a> and knitted socks and sweaters for the boys overseas. She also had houseguests <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous and Maria Huxley</a>, from England, when World War II began in September 1939. Loos convinced Huxley that it would be safer for his family if they stayed in the United States, and she got him a job adapting screenplays at MGM. Privately she had a new partner who had a drinking problem; the relationship would be short-lived and MGM decided to release her from her contract finally. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1946-1959:_Return_to_New_York">1946-1959: Return to New York</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1946-1959: Return to New York"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the fall of 1946, now a free agent, Loos returned to New York to work on <i>Happy Birthday</i>, a <a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">Saroyanesque</a> cocktail party comedy written for <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play had several false starts the previous year, but now proceeded with <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Logan" title="Joshua Logan">Joshua Logan</a> as director, and produced by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Rodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Hammerstein</a>. It opened in Boston, but the audiences hated it at first. Loos kept improving the script throughout the Boston run; when it opened in New York at the <a href="/wiki/Broadhurst_Theatre" title="Broadhurst Theatre">Broadhurst</a> it was a hit and ran for 600 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> was eager to play in the screen version but the Hollywood censors weren't ready for a woman to be "sloshed on screen for two acts and be rewarded with a happy ending." Loos sold her Santa Monica house to her niece and made certain Emerson understood he would not be joining her in New York under any circumstances. </p><p>Once again in New York, she and her long time friend, screenwriter <a href="/wiki/Frances_Marion" title="Frances Marion">Frances Marion</a>, worked on an unproduced play for <a href="/wiki/Zasu_Pitts" class="mw-redirect" title="Zasu Pitts">Zasu Pitts</a>. A few romances came her way, including <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier" title="Maurice Chevalier">Maurice Chevalier</a>. Two Broadway producers wanted a musical version of <i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> and brought in <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Fields" title="Joseph Fields">Joseph Fields</a> as co-author. Loos threatened to quit the production unless assured she would never have to speak to Fields again. The show opened in Philadelphia with a then-unknown <a href="/wiki/Carol_Channing" title="Carol Channing">Carol Channing</a>. By the time it arrived in New York it was another success. Channing soon was elevated to an A-list star, the show played for 90 weeks and went on tour for another year. The producers closed the show when Channing became pregnant. <a href="/wiki/Herman_Levin" title="Herman Levin">Herman Levin</a> commented: "I was convinced the show wouldn't work without Carol, and in my opinion it never has."<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">musical film</a> version was produced in 1953, directed by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawks</a> and adapted by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lederer" title="Charles Lederer">Charles Lederer</a>. It starred <a href="/wiki/Jane_Russell" title="Jane Russell">Jane Russell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a>. Loos had nothing to do with the production, but thought Monroe was inspired casting.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The success of <i>Blondes</i> the second time around meant Loos had a greater profile than ever before. She moved to a more spacious apartment at the Langdon Hotel and bought a car. In 1950 Loos wrote <i>A Mouse is Born</i>, another novel, and once sent to her publisher, she left her first trip to Europe in 20 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <i>Mouse is Born</i> had a lukewarm reception, but by then Loos was already working on a dramatic adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Colette" title="Colette">Colette</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gigi_(novella)" title="Gigi (novella)">Gigi</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Scribners_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scribners-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The production was under way before Colette wired that she had found their "Gigi"—she had seen <a href="/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a> in a hotel lobby in Monte Carlo.<sup id="cite_ref-Gale_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gale-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gigi opened in the fall of 1951 and would run until the spring of 1952; by then Hepburn had been elevated to an A-list star, contracted to <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>. </p><p>Loos worked on more adaptations for the next few years during travels while relocating to an apartment on West Fifty-Seventh Street. The apartment was that of Paul Swan, the aging "Most Beautiful Man in the World". Her next musical, <i>The Amazing Adele</i> starring <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Grimes" title="Tammy Grimes">Tammy Grimes</a> with music by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Albert_Selden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Albert Selden (page does not exist)">Albert Selden</a>, never got off the ground and swiftly closed. Both Emerson and Helen Hayes' husband, <a href="/wiki/Charles_MacArthur" title="Charles MacArthur">Charles MacArthur</a>, died within a few weeks of each other and the women threw themselves into their work together, with Loos working on an adaptation for Hayes' filming <i><a href="/wiki/Anastasia_(1956_film)" title="Anastasia (1956 film)">Anastasia</a></i> in London. Loos worked and traveled even while being treated for a painful hand ailment that prevented her from writing. In 1959 Loos opened another Colette adaptation, <i>Chéri</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley" title="Kim Stanley">Kim Stanley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horst_Buchholz" title="Horst Buchholz">Horst Buchholz</a> in the title roles, but it ran for only two months. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960-1981:_Later_life_and_death">1960-1981: Later life and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1960-1981: Later life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Loos continued writing as a magazine contributor, appearing regularly in <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar" title="Harper's Bazaar">Harper's Bazaar</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanity Fair magazine">Vanity Fair</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. Biographer Gary Carey notes: "She was a born storyteller and was always in peak form when reshaping a real-life encounter to make an amusing anecdote."<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_5-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos began a volume of memoirs, <i>A Girl Like I</i>, published in September 1966. Her 1972 book, <i>Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now</i>, was written in collaboration with friend and actress <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a>. <i>Kiss Hollywood Good-by</i> (1974) was a Hollywood memoir about her MGM years and would be very successful,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while her book, <i>The Talmadge Girls</i> (1978) is about the actress sisters <a href="/wiki/Constance_Talmadge" title="Constance Talmadge">Constance Talmadge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norma_Talmadge" title="Norma Talmadge">Norma Talmadge</a> specifically. </p><p> Loos would become a virtual New York institution, an assiduous partygoer and diner-out; conspicuous at fashion shows, theatrical and movie events, balls and galas.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A celebrity anecdotalist, she was also never one to let facts spoil a good story: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>With each book came a new spate of interviews and as one of the last survivors of the silent era, Anita's stories became more exaggerated and she was soon reported to have sold her first scenario at the age of 12. She continued to thrive on interesting people and interesting activities – and held an opinion on everything – but worked hard on keeping the vivacious and flippant image and hiding her loneliness.<sup id="cite_ref-Beauchamp_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauchamp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> She once commented, "I've enjoyed my happiest moments when trailing a <a href="/wiki/Mainbocher" title="Mainbocher">Mainbocher</a> evening gown across the sawdust-covered floor of a saloon."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was interviewed in the television documentary series <i><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_(British_TV_series)" title="Hollywood (British TV series)">Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film</a></i> (1980).<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After spending several weeks with a lung infection, Anita Loos suffered a heart attack and died in Manhattan's <a href="/wiki/Doctors_Hospital_(Manhattan)" title="Doctors Hospital (Manhattan)">Doctors Hospital</a> in New York City at the age of 93.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the memorial service, friends <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Gordon" title="Ruth Gordon">Ruth Gordon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Gish" title="Lillian Gish">Lillian Gish</a>, regaled the mourners with humorous anecdotes and <a href="/wiki/Jule_Styne" title="Jule Styne">Jule Styne</a> played songs from Loos's musicals, including "<a href="/wiki/Diamonds_Are_a_Girl%27s_Best_Friend" title="Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend">Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Beauchamp_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beauchamp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Loos is portrayed in a thinly disguised manner by <a href="/wiki/Tatum_O%27Neal" title="Tatum O'Neal">Tatum O'Neal</a>, as the character <i>Alice Forsyte</i>, in <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich" title="Peter Bogdanovich">Peter Bogdanovich</a>'s look back at early silent filmmaking in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Nickelodeon_(film)" title="Nickelodeon (film)">Nickelodeon</a></i>.</li> <li>In the second season of HBO's <i><a href="/wiki/Perry_Mason_(2020_TV_series)" title="Perry Mason (2020 TV series)">Perry Mason (2020 TV series)</a></i> the character Anita St. Pierre, played by Jen Tullock, is based on Loos.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library">Library resources</a> about <br /> <b>Anita Loos</b> <hr /></div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=&su=Loos%2C+Anita%2C+1893-1981">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=&su=Loos%2C+Anita%2C+1893-1981&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li> </ul></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><b>By Anita Loos</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?at=&au=Loos%2C+Anita%2C+1893-1981">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?at=&au=Loos%2C+Anita%2C+1893-1981&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li></ul> </div></div> </div> <ul><li><i>Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dd>Author: Anita Loos</dd> <dd>Editors: <a href="/wiki/Cari_Beauchamp" title="Cari Beauchamp">Cari Beauchamp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Loos" title="Mary Loos">Mary Loos</a></dd> <dd>Publisher : <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>, 2003</dd> <dd><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520228948" title="Special:BookSources/9780520228948">9780520228948</a></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady</a></i>. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1925</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i>. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Mouse_Is_Born" title="A Mouse Is Born">A Mouse Is Born</a></i>. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=No_Mother_to_Guide_Her_(Anita_Loos_novel)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="No Mother to Guide Her (Anita Loos novel) (page does not exist)">No Mother to Guide Her</a></i>.</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd>NY: McGraw Hill, 1961</dd> <dd>London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1961<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fate_Keeps_On_Happening:_Adventures_Of_Lorelei_Lee_And_Other_Writings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fate Keeps On Happening: Adventures Of Lorelei Lee And Other Writings (page does not exist)">Fate Keeps On Happening: Adventures Of Lorelei Lee And Other Writings</a></i>. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg/180px-ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg/270px-ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg/360px-ANITA_LOOS_Two.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2108" data-file-height="1526" /></a><figcaption>Loos' Nonfiction books</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>w/John Emerson <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=How_to_Write_Photoplays&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="How to Write Photoplays (page does not exist)">How to Write Photoplays</a></i> NY: James A McCann, 1920</li> <li>w/John Emerson. <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Breaking_Into_the_Movies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Breaking Into the Movies (page does not exist)">Breaking Into the Movies</a></i>. NY: James A McCann, 1921</li> <li>"This Brunette Prefers Work", <a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Home_Companion" title="Woman's Home Companion">Woman's Home Companion</a>, 83 (March 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Girl_Like_I&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Girl Like I (page does not exist)">A Girl Like I</a></i>. NY:Viking Press, 1966</li> <li>w/Helen Hayes. <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Twice_Over_Lightly:_New_York_Then_and_Now&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now (page does not exist)">Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now</a></i>. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kiss_Hollywood_Good-by&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kiss Hollywood Good-by (page does not exist)">Kiss Hollywood Good-by</a></i>. NY: Viking Press, 1974</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cast_of_Thousands:_a_pictorial_memoir_of_the_most_glittering_stars_of_Hollywood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cast of Thousands: a pictorial memoir of the most glittering stars of Hollywood (page does not exist)">Cast of Thousands: a pictorial memoir of the most glittering stars of Hollywood</a></i>. NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1977</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Talmadge_Girls&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Talmadge Girls (page does not exist)">The Talmadge Girls</a></i>. NY: Viking Press, 1978</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Broadway_credits">Broadway credits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Broadway credits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Whole Town's Talking</i> (1923)</li> <li><i>The Fall of Eve</i> (1925)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(play)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i>The Social Register</i> (1931)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday_(play)" title="Happy Birthday (play)">Happy Birthday</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gigi_(play)" title="Gigi (play)">Gigi</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chéri (play)">Chéri</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i>The King's Mare</i> (1967)</li> <li><i>Lorelei</i> (1974)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_credits">Film credits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Film credits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Baby_(film)" title="My Baby (film)">My Baby</a></i> (1912; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Musketeers_of_Pig_Alley" title="The Musketeers of Pig Alley">The Musketeers of Pig Alley</a></i> (1912; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Hat" title="The New York Hat">The New York Hat</a></i> (1912; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Narrow_Escape" class="mw-redirect" title="A Narrow Escape">A Narrow Escape</a></i> (1913; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wedding_Gown&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Wedding Gown (page does not exist)">The Wedding Gown</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Gown" class="extiw" title="it:The Wedding Gown">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=His_Hoodoo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="His Hoodoo (page does not exist)">His Hoodoo</a></i> (1913; scenario; story "The Making of a Masher")</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pa_Says&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pa Says (page does not exist)">Pa Says</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa_Says" class="extiw" title="cy:Pa Says">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa_Says" class="extiw" title="it:Pa Says">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story "The Queen of the Carnival")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Cure_for_Suffragettes" title="A Cure for Suffragettes">A Cure for Suffragettes</a></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Fallen_Hero&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Fallen Hero (page does not exist)">A Fallen Hero</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fallen_Hero" class="extiw" title="it:A Fallen Hero">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Horse_on_Bill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Horse on Bill (page does not exist)">A Horse on Bill</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceffyl_Bill" class="extiw" title="cy:Ceffyl Bill">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_on_Bill" class="extiw" title="it:A Horse on Bill">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Binks%27_Vacation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Binks' Vacation (page does not exist)">Binks' Vacation</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binks%27_Vacation" class="extiw" title="cy:Binks' Vacation">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binks%27_Vacation" class="extiw" title="it:Binks' Vacation">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Highbrow_Love&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Highbrow Love (page does not exist)">Highbrow Love</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow_Love" class="extiw" title="cy:Highbrow Love">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbrow_Love" class="extiw" title="it:Highbrow Love">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=How_the_Day_Was_Saved&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="How the Day Was Saved (page does not exist)">How the Day Was Saved</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_The_Day_Was_Saved" class="extiw" title="cy:How The Day Was Saved">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Day_Was_Saved" class="extiw" title="it:How the Day Was Saved">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh,_Sammy!&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oh, Sammy! (page does not exist)">Oh, Sammy!</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,_Sammy!" class="extiw" title="it:Oh, Sammy!">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Hicksville_Epicure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hicksville Epicure (page does not exist)">The Hicksville Epicure</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hicksville_Epicure" class="extiw" title="cy:The Hicksville Epicure">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hicksville_Epicure" class="extiw" title="it:The Hicksville Epicure">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Power_of_the_Camera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Power of the Camera (page does not exist)">The Power of the Camera</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Camera" class="extiw" title="it:The Power of the Camera">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_Pact&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Suicide Pact (page does not exist)">The Suicide Pact</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suicide_Pact_(film_1913)" class="extiw" title="it:The Suicide Pact (film 1913)">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=His_Awful_Vengeance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="His Awful Vengeance (page does not exist)">His Awful Vengeance</a></i> (1913; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lady_in_Black_(1913_film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lady in Black (1913 film) (page does not exist)">The Lady in Black (1913 film)</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_Black_(film_1913)" class="extiw" title="it:The Lady in Black (film 1913)">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mistake_(film)" title="The Mistake (film)">The Mistake</a></i> (1913; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Telephone_Girl_and_the_Lady" title="The Telephone Girl and the Lady">The Telephone Girl and the Lady</a></i> (1913; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Widow%27s_Kids&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Widow's Kids (page does not exist)">The Widow's Kids</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Widow%27s_Kids" class="extiw" title="it:The Widow's Kids">it</a>]</span></i> (1913; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sisters_(1914_film)" title="The Sisters (1914 film)">The Sisters</a></i> (1914/I; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Lesson_in_Mechanics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Lesson in Mechanics (page does not exist)">A Lesson in Mechanics</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nearly_a_Burglar%27s_Bride&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nearly a Burglar's Bride (page does not exist)">Nearly a Burglar's Bride</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Some_Bull%27s_Daughter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Some Bull's Daughter (page does not exist)">Some Bull's Daughter</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Deceiver_(1914_film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Deceiver (1914 film) (page does not exist)">The Deceiver</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Road_to_Plaindale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Road to Plaindale (page does not exist)">The Road to Plaindale</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Saving_Grace&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Saving Grace (page does not exist)">The Saving Grace</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Saving_Presence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Saving Presence (page does not exist)">The Saving Presence</a></i> (1914; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Corner_in_Hats&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Corner in Hats (page does not exist)">A Corner in Hats</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Flurry_in_Art&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Flurry in Art (page does not exist)">A Flurry in Art</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentleman_or_Thief&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gentleman or Thief (page does not exist)">Gentleman or Thief</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nell%27s_Eugenic_Wedding" title="Nell's Eugenic Wedding">Nell's Eugenic Wedding</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fatal_Dress_Suit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Fatal Dress Suit (page does not exist)">The Fatal Dress Suit</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Man_on_the_Couch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Man on the Couch (page does not exist)">The Man on the Couch</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Million_Dollar_Bride&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Million Dollar Bride (page does not exist)">The Million Dollar Bride</a></i> (1914; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Gangsters_of_New_York&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Gangsters of New York (page does not exist)">The Gangsters of New York</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangsters_of_New_York" class="extiw" title="cy:The Gangsters of New York">cy</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangsters_of_New_York" class="extiw" title="it:The Gangsters of New York">it</a>]</span></i> (1914; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Bunch_of_Flowers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Bunch of Flowers (page does not exist)">A Bunch of Flowers</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bunch_of_Flowers" class="extiw" title="it:A Bunch of Flowers">it</a>]</span></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Billy%27s_Rival" title="Billy's Rival">Billy's Rival</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=For_Her_Father%27s_Sins&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="For Her Father's Sins (page does not exist)">For Her Father's Sins</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Izzy_and_His_Rival&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Izzy and His Rival (page does not exist)">Izzy and His Rival</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Shack" title="The Girl in the Shack">The Girl in the Shack</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunchback_(1914_film)" title="The Hunchback (1914 film)">The Hunchback</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Last_Drink_of_Whiskey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Last Drink of Whiskey (page does not exist)">The Last Drink of Whiskey</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_White_Slave_Catchers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The White Slave Catchers (page does not exist)">The White Slave Catchers</a></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=When_the_Road_Parts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="When the Road Parts (page does not exist)">When the Road Parts</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Road_Parts" class="extiw" title="it:When the Road Parts">it</a>]</span></i> (1914; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Ten-Cent_Adventure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Ten-Cent Adventure (page does not exist)">A Ten-Cent Adventure</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ten-Cent_Adventure" class="extiw" title="it:A Ten-Cent Adventure">it</a>]</span></i> (1915; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mixed_Values&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mixed Values (page does not exist)">Mixed Values</a></i> (1915; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Deacon%27s_Whiskers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Deacon's Whiskers (page does not exist)">The Deacon's Whiskers</a></i> (1915; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_House" title="The Lost House">The Lost House</a></i> (1915; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Fatal_Finger_Prints&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Fatal Finger Prints (page does not exist)">The Fatal Finger Prints</a></i> (1915; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stranded_(1916_drama_film)" title="Stranded (1916 drama film)">Stranded</a></i> (1916/I; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_(1916_film)" title="Macbeth (1916 film)">Macbeth</a></i> (1916; intertitles)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Calico_Vampire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Calico Vampire (page does not exist)">A Calico Vampire</a></i> (1916; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laundry_Liz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laundry Liz (page does not exist)">Laundry Liz</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_Liz" class="extiw" title="cy:Laundry Liz">cy</a>; <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laundry_Liz" class="extiw" title="fr:Laundry Liz">fr</a>]</span></i> (1916; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_French_Milliner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The French Milliner (page does not exist)">The French Milliner</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Milliner" class="extiw" title="cy:The French Milliner">cy</a>; <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Milliner" class="extiw" title="fr:The French Milliner">fr</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Milliner" class="extiw" title="it:The French Milliner">it</a>]</span></i> (1916; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Americano_(1916_film)" title="The Americano (1916 film)">The Americano</a></i> (1916; scenario; titles)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wharf_Rat" title="The Wharf Rat">The Wharf Rat</a></i> (1916; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Corner_in_Cotton" title="A Corner in Cotton">A Corner in Cotton</a></i> (1916; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Aristocracy" title="American Aristocracy">American Aristocracy</a></i> (1916; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Intolerance_(film)" title="Intolerance (film)">Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages</a></i> (1916; titles)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Leaping_Fish" title="The Mystery of the Leaping Fish">The Mystery of the Leaping Fish</a></i> (1916; titles)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Wild_Girl_of_the_Sierras&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Wild Girl of the Sierras (page does not exist)">A Wild Girl of the Sierras</a></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/His_Picture_in_the_Papers" title="His Picture in the Papers">His Picture in the Papers</a></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Children_Pay" title="The Children Pay">The Children Pay</a></i> (1916; writer)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Half-Breed" title="The Half-Breed">The Half-Breed</a></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Little_Liar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Little Liar (page does not exist)">The Little Liar</a></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Matrimaniac&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Matrimaniac (page does not exist)">The Matrimaniac</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrimaniac" class="extiw" title="cy:The Matrimaniac">cy</a>; <a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamman_vallan_alla_(vuoden_1916_elokuva)" class="extiw" title="fi:Mamman vallan alla (vuoden 1916 elokuva)">fi</a>]</span></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Social_Secretary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Social Secretary (page does not exist)">The Social Secretary</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Secretary" class="extiw" title="cy:The Social Secretary">cy</a>; <a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Secretary" class="extiw" title="fi:The Social Secretary">fi</a>; <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Secr%C3%A9taire_particuli%C3%A8re" class="extiw" title="fr:La Secrétaire particulière">fr</a>; <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Secretary_(film_1916)" class="extiw" title="it:The Social Secretary (film 1916)">it</a>]</span></i> (1916; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Again,_Out_Again" title="In Again, Out Again">In Again, Out Again</a></i> (1917/II; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Daughter_of_the_Poor" title="A Daughter of the Poor">A Daughter of the Poor</a></i> (1917; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Down_to_Earth_(1917_film)" title="Down to Earth (1917 film)">Down to Earth</a></i> (1917; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reaching_for_the_Moon_(1917_film)" title="Reaching for the Moon (1917 film)">Reaching for the Moon</a></i> (1917; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_and_Woolly_(1917_film)" title="Wild and Woolly (1917 film)">Wild and Woolly</a></i> (1917; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good-Bye,_Bill" title="Good-Bye, Bill">Good-Bye, Bill</a></i> (1918; screenplay; producer; story Gosh Darn the Kaiser)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hit-The-Trail_Holliday" title="Hit-The-Trail Holliday">Hit-The-Trail Holliday</a></i> (1918; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Get_a_Divorce" title="Let's Get a Divorce">Let's Get a Divorce</a></i> (1918; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Come_On_In_(film)" title="Come On In (film)">Come on In</a></i> (1918; writer; producer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Virtuous_Vamp" title="A Virtuous Vamp">A Virtuous Vamp</a></i> (1919; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Temperamental_Wife" title="A Temperamental Wife">A Temperamental Wife</a></i> (1919; scenario; producer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oh,_You_Women!" title="Oh, You Women!">Oh, You Women!</a></i> (1919; scenario; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Under_the_Top" title="Under the Top">Under the Top</a></i> (1919; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Getting_Mary_Married" title="Getting Mary Married">Getting Mary Married</a></i> (1919; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Isle_of_Conquest" title="The Isle of Conquest">The Isle of Conquest</a></i> (1919; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Branded_Woman" title="The Branded Woman">The Branded Woman</a></i> (1920; adaptation)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dangerous_Business_(1920_film)" title="Dangerous Business (1920 film)">Dangerous Business</a></i> (1920; producer; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Weeks_(1920_film)" title="Two Weeks (1920 film)">Two Weeks</a></i> (1920; scenario)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfect_Woman_(1920_film)" title="The Perfect Woman (1920 film)">The Perfect Woman</a></i> (1920; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Love_Expert" title="The Love Expert">The Love Expert</a></i> (1920; writer; producer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Search_of_a_Sinner" title="In Search of a Sinner">In Search of a Sinner</a></i> (1920; writer; producer; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Place" title="Woman's Place">Woman's Place</a></i> (1921; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mama%27s_Affair_(1921_film)" title="Mama's Affair (1921 film)">Mama's Affair</a></i> (1921; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Polly_of_the_Follies" title="Polly of the Follies">Polly of the Follies</a></i> (1922; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hot_Romance" title="Red Hot Romance">Red Hot Romance</a></i> (1922; screenplay; story; executive producer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dulcy_(1923_film)" title="Dulcy (1923 film)">Dulcy</a></i> (1923; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Miles_Out" title="Three Miles Out">Three Miles Out</a></i> (1924; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Learning_to_Love" title="Learning to Love">Learning to Love</a></i> (1925; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Whole_Town%27s_Talking_(1926_film)" title="The Whole Town's Talking (1926 film)">The Whole Town's Talking</a></i> (1926; play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stranded_(1927_film)" title="Stranded (1927 film)">Stranded</a></i> (1927; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(lost_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1928; novel; screenplay; titles)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Eve" title="The Fall of Eve">The Fall of Eve</a></i> (1929; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ex-Bad_Boy" title="Ex-Bad Boy">Ex-Bad Boy</a></i> (1931; story "The Whole Town's Talking")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Struggle_(1931_film)" title="The Struggle (1931 film)">The Struggle</a></i> (1931; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blondie_of_the_Follies" title="Blondie of the Follies">Blondie of the Follies</a></i> (1932; dialogue)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red-Headed_Woman" title="Red-Headed Woman">Red-Headed Woman</a></i> (1932; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hold_Your_Man" title="Hold Your Man">Hold Your Man</a></i> (1933; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Midnight_Mary" title="Midnight Mary">Midnight Mary</a></i> (1933; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Barbarian_(1933_film)" title="The Barbarian (1933 film)">The Barbarian</a></i> (1933; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_Missouri" title="The Girl from Missouri">The Girl from Missouri</a></i> (1934; original screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Fiddle_(film)" title="The Cat and the Fiddle (film)">The Cat and the Fiddle</a></i> (1934; screenplay contributor; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Social_Register_(film)" title="Social Register (film)">Social Register</a></i> (1934; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Biography_of_a_Bachelor_Girl" title="Biography of a Bachelor Girl">Biography of a Bachelor Girl</a></i> (1935; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Riffraff_(1936_film)" title="Riffraff (1936 film)">Riffraff</a></i> (1936; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_(1936_film)" title="San Francisco (1936 film)">San Francisco</a></i> (1936; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_(film)" title="Saratoga (film)">Saratoga</a></i> (1937; screenplay; story)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mama_Steps_Out" title="Mama Steps Out">Mama Steps Out</a></i> (1937; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cowboy_and_the_Lady_(1938_film)" title="The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)">The Cowboy and the Lady</a></i> (1938; contributing writer; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Another_Thin_Man" title="Another Thin Man">Another Thin Man</a></i> (1939; contributing writer; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Women_(1939_film)" title="The Women (1939 film)">The Women</a></i> (1939; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Arms_(film)" title="Babes in Arms (film)">Babes in Arms</a></i> (1939; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Cargo_(1940_film)" title="Strange Cargo (1940 film)">Strange Cargo</a></i> (1940; adaptation; uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Susan_and_God" title="Susan and God">Susan and God</a></i> (1940; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blossoms_in_the_Dust" title="Blossoms in the Dust">Blossoms in the Dust</a></i> (1941; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/When_Ladies_Meet_(1941_film)" title="When Ladies Meet (1941 film)">When Ladies Meet</a></i> (1941; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/They_Met_in_Bombay" title="They Met in Bombay">They Met in Bombay</a></i> (1941; writer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Married_an_Angel" title="I Married an Angel">I Married an Angel</a></i> (1942; screenplay)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(1945_film)" title="A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)">A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</a></i> (1945 uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Buick_Circus_Hour" title="The Buick Circus Hour">The Buick Circus Hour</a></i> (1952; teleplays)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1953; play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i> (1955; novel "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Producers%27_Showcase" title="Producers' Showcase">Producers' Showcase</a></i> "Happy Birthday" (1956; writer)</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Loos" title="Mary Loos">Mary Loos</a></li></ul> <style 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title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_2">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i></a>. University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-22894-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-22894-8"><bdi>978-0-520-22894-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anita+Loos+Rediscovered%3A+Film+Treatments+and+Fiction+by+Anita+Loos%2C+Creator+of+Gentlemen+Prefer+Blondes&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2003-11-10&rft.isbn=978-0-520-22894-8&rft.aulast=Loos&rft.aufirst=Anita&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dt_l1IqRJe_EC%26q%3DCorinne%2Banita%2Bloos%2Bborn%2Bapril1888%26pg%3DPA134&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWhitman1981" class="citation news cs1">Whitman, Alden (August 19, 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/19/obituaries/anita-loos-dead-at-93-screenwriter-novelist.html">"Anita Loos Dead at 93; Screenwriter, Novelist"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: Batsford. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7134-6960-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7134-6960-9"><bdi>0-7134-6960-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reel+women%3A+pioneers+of+the+cinema+1896+to+the+present&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Batsford&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-7134-6960-9&rft.au=Acker%2C+Ally&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBeauchamp,_Cari1997" class="citation book cs1">Beauchamp, Cari (1997). <i>Without lying down: Frances Marion and the powerful women of early Hollywood</i>. 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Knopf. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-53127-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-53127-2"><bdi>0-394-53127-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anita+Loos%3A+a+biography&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=A.A.+Knopf&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-394-53127-2&rft.au=Carey%2C+Gary&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFunk,_Charles_Earle1936" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Earle_Funk" title="Charles Earle Funk">Funk, Charles Earle</a> (1936). <i>What's the Name, Please?</i>. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=What%27s+the+Name%2C+Please%3F&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Funk+%26+Wagnalls&rft.date=1936&rft.au=Funk%2C+Charles+Earle&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 21</i>. New York, N.Y: Gale Group. 2001.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+World+Biography+Supplement%2C+Vol.+21.&rft.place=New+York%2C+N.Y&rft.pub=Gale+Group&rft.date=2001&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHendersonGreene2008" class="citation book cs1">Henderson, Mary C.; Greene, Alexis (2008). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/storyof42ndstree00hend/mode/2up"><i>The story of 42nd Street: the theaters, shows, characters, and scandals of the world's most notorious street</i></a></span>. New York: Back Stage Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8230-3072-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8230-3072-9"><bdi>978-0-8230-3072-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/190860159">190860159</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+story+of+42nd+Street%3A+the+theaters%2C+shows%2C+characters%2C+and+scandals+of+the+world%27s+most+notorious+street&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Back+Stage+Books&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F190860159&rft.isbn=978-0-8230-3072-9&rft.aulast=Henderson&rft.aufirst=Mary+C.&rft.au=Greene%2C+Alexis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fstoryof42ndstree00hend%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJacobs,_KatrienFoster,_Gwendolyn_AudreyUnterburger,_Amy_L.1998" class="citation book cs1">Jacobs, Katrien; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey; Unterburger, Amy L. (1998). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/womenfilmmakerst0000unse"><i>Women filmmakers & their films</i></a></span>. London: St. James Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55862-357-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-55862-357-4"><bdi>1-55862-357-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Women+filmmakers+%26+their+films&rft.place=London&rft.pub=St.+James+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=1-55862-357-4&rft.au=Jacobs%2C+Katrien&rft.au=Foster%2C+Gwendolyn+Audrey&rft.au=Unterburger%2C+Amy+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwomenfilmmakerst0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLoos,_Anita1966" class="citation book cs1">Loos, Anita (1966). <i>A Girl Like I</i>. New York: The Viking press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-34112-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-34112-6"><bdi>0-670-34112-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Girl+Like+I&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=The+Viking+press&rft.date=1966&rft.isbn=0-670-34112-6&rft.au=Loos%2C+Anita&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLoos,_Anita1974" class="citation book cs1">Loos, Anita (1974). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/kisshollywoodgoo00loos"><i>Kiss Hollywood Good-by</i></a>. New York: Viking Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-41374-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-670-41374-7"><bdi>0-670-41374-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Kiss+Hollywood+Good-by&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Viking+Press&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=0-670-41374-7&rft.au=Loos%2C+Anita&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fkisshollywoodgoo00loos&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLoos,_Anita1977" class="citation book cs1">Loos, Anita (1977). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/castofthousands00loos"><i>Cast of Thousands</i></a>. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-448-12264-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-448-12264-2"><bdi>0-448-12264-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cast+of+Thousands&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Grosset+and+Dunlap&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=0-448-12264-2&rft.au=Loos%2C+Anita&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcastofthousands00loos&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Loos, R. Beers. "Anita's Dad Spills the Frijoles," <i><a href="/wiki/Photoplay" title="Photoplay">Photoplay</a></i>, August 1928, p. 47.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFNorman,_Marc2007" class="citation book cs1">Norman, Marc (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whathappensnexth00norm"><i>What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting</i></a>. New York, N.Y: Harmony. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-38339-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-38339-6"><bdi>978-0-307-38339-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=What+Happens+Next%3A+A+History+of+American+Screenwriting&rft.place=New+York%2C+N.Y&rft.pub=Harmony&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-307-38339-6&rft.au=Norman%2C+Marc&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwhathappensnexth00norm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSchmidt1917" class="citation journal cs1">Schmidt, Karl (June 1917). "The Handwriting on the Screen". <i><a href="/wiki/Everybody%27s_Magazine" title="Everybody's Magazine">Everybody's Magazine</a></i>. <b>36</b>: <span class="nowrap">622–</span>23.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Everybody%27s+Magazine&rft.atitle=The+Handwriting+on+the+Screen&rft.volume=36&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E622-%3C%2Fspan%3E23&rft.date=1917-06&rft.aulast=Schmidt&rft.aufirst=Karl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume 1: 1981–1985</i>. New York, N.Y: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1998.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Scribner+Encyclopedia+of+American+Lives%2C+Volume+1%3A+1981%E2%80%931985&rft.place=New+York%2C+N.Y&rft.pub=Charles+Scribner%27s+Sons&rft.date=1998&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWhitman1981" class="citation news cs1">Whitman, Alden (August 19, 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20D1EF63E5F0C7A8DDDA10894D9484D81">"Anita Loos Dead at 93; Screenwriter, Novelist"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 6,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Anita+Loos+Dead+at+93%3B+Screenwriter%2C+Novelist&rft.date=1981-08-19&rft.aulast=Whitman&rft.aufirst=Alden&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fselect.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Frestricted%2Farticle%3Fres%3DF20D1EF63E5F0C7A8DDDA10894D9484D81&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Loos" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anita_Loos&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985" /><style 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Loos</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002616/">Anita Loos</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/4139">Anita Loos</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272088#P1220" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, 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Theatre Division, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="New York Public Library for the Performing Arts">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/010248552/catalog">Anita Loos papers, 1917-1979</a> at <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Library" title="Houghton Library">Houghton Library</a>, Harvard University</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=1&Type=PN&Tbl=&CatID=DATABIN_WRITER&ID=13101&searchedFor=Anita_Loos_&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR">AFI Catalog entry for Anita Loos</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~ialong/Taylor51.txt">Some contemporary articles and interviews with Anita Loos</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anita-loos">Works by Anita Loos in eBook form</a> at <a 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(1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i> (1928)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday_(play)" title="Happy Birthday (play)">Happy Birthday</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gigi_(play)" title="Gigi (play)">Gigi</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chéri (play)">Chéri</a></i> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film <small><br /> /I signals that Loos also wrote the<br />intertitles; some works are co-written</small></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Writer_(screenplay/scenario)98" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Writer <br /><small>(screenplay/<br />scenario)</small></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/My_Baby_(film)" title="My Baby (film)">My Baby</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Musketeers_of_Pig_Alley" title="The Musketeers of Pig Alley">The Musketeers of Pig Alley</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Hat" title="The New York Hat">The New York Hat</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mistake_(film)" title="The Mistake (film)">The Mistake</a></i> (1913)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Telephone_Girl_and_the_Lady" title="The Telephone Girl and the Lady">The Telephone Girl and the Lady</a></i> (1913)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Billy%27s_Rival" title="Billy's Rival">Billy's Rival</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Shack" title="The Girl in the Shack">The Girl in the Shack</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hunchback_(1914_film)" title="The Hunchback (1914 film)">The Hunchback</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sisters_(1914_film)" title="The Sisters (1914 film)">The Sisters</a></i> (1914/I)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Americano_(1916_film)" title="The Americano (1916 film)">The Americano</a></i> (1916/I)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stranded_(1916_drama_film)" title="Stranded (1916 drama film)">Stranded</a></i> (1916/I)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Half-Breed_(1916_film)" title="The Half-Breed (1916 film)">The Half-Breed</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/His_Picture_in_the_Papers" title="His Picture in the Papers">His Picture in the Papers</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Children_Pay" title="The Children Pay">The Children Pay</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Daughter_of_the_Poor" title="A Daughter of the Poor">A Daughter of the Poor</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reaching_for_the_Moon_(1917_film)" title="Reaching for the Moon (1917 film)">Reaching for the Moon</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wild_and_Woolly_(1917_film)" title="Wild and Woolly (1917 film)">Wild and Woolly</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Get_a_Divorce" title="Let's Get a Divorce">Let's Get a Divorce</a></i> (1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Isle_of_Conquest" title="The Isle of Conquest">The Isle of Conquest</a></i> (1919)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Virtuous_Vamp" title="A Virtuous Vamp">A Virtuous Vamp</a></i> (1919)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mama%27s_Affair_(1921_film)" title="Mama's Affair (1921 film)">Mama's Affair</a></i> (1921)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hot_Romance" title="Red Hot Romance">Red Hot Romance</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Struggle_(1931_film)" title="The Struggle (1931 film)">The Struggle</a></i> (1931)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red-Headed_Woman" title="Red-Headed Woman">Red-Headed Woman</a></i> (1932)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Barbarian_(1933_film)" title="The Barbarian (1933 film)">The Barbarian</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hold_Your_Man" title="Hold Your Man">Hold Your Man</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_Missouri" title="The Girl from Missouri">The Girl from Missouri</a></i> (1934; original)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Riffraff_(1936_film)" title="Riffraff (1936 film)">Riffraff</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_(1936_film)" title="San Francisco (1936 film)">San Francisco</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_(film)" title="Saratoga (film)">Saratoga</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Women_(1939_film)" title="The Women (1939 film)">The Women</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Susan_and_God" title="Susan and God">Susan and God</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blossoms_in_the_Dust" title="Blossoms in the Dust">Blossoms in the Dust</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/When_Ladies_Meet_(1941_film)" title="When Ladies Meet (1941 film)">When Ladies Meet</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_House" title="The Lost House">The Lost House</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/They_Met_in_Bombay" title="They Met in Bombay">They Met in Bombay</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Married_an_Angel" title="I Married an Angel">I Married an Angel</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Producers%27_Showcase" title="Producers' Showcase">Producers' Showcase</a></i> "Happy Birthday" (1956)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Story</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Nell%27s_Eugenic_Wedding" title="Nell's Eugenic Wedding">Nell's Eugenic Wedding</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Aristocracy" title="American Aristocracy">American Aristocracy</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Place" title="Woman's Place">Woman's Place</a></i> (1921)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Midnight_Mary" title="Midnight Mary">Midnight Mary</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saratoga_(film)" title="Saratoga (film)">Saratoga</a></i> (1937)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i> (1955)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Intertitle" title="Intertitle">Titles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Americano_(1916_film)" title="The Americano (1916 film)">The Americano</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Intolerance_(film)" title="Intolerance (film)">Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_(1916_film)" title="Macbeth (1916 film)">Macbeth</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Leaping_Fish" title="The Mystery of the Leaping Fish">The Mystery of the Leaping Fish</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1928)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Branded_Woman" title="The Branded Woman">The Branded Woman</a></i> (1920; adaptation)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hot_Romance" title="Red Hot Romance">Red Hot Romance</a></i> (1922; executive producer)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blondie_of_the_Follies" title="Blondie of the Follies">Blondie of the Follies</a></i> (1932; dialogue)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1953; play)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Uncredited</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Fiddle_(film)" title="The Cat and the Fiddle (film)">The Cat and the Fiddle</a></i> (1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cowboy_and_the_Lady_(1938_film)" title="The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)">The Cowboy and the Lady</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Another_Thin_Man" title="Another Thin Man">Another Thin Man</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Arms_(film)" title="Babes in Arms (film)">Babes in Arms</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Cargo_(1940_film)" title="Strange Cargo (1940 film)">Strange Cargo</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(1945_film)" title="A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)">A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</a></i> 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