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edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos">Anita Loos</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Illustrator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Barton" title="Ralph Barton">Ralph Barton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Comedy_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Comedy novel">Comedy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">November 1925</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boni_%26_Liveright" title="Boni & Liveright">Boni & Liveright</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">hardcover</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paperback" title="Paperback">paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes" class="extiw" title="s:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady</b></i> (1925)<sup id="cite_ref-Title_Note_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Title_Note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Comic_novel" title="Comic novel">comic novel</a> written by American author <a href="/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos">Anita Loos</a>. The story follows the <a href="/wiki/One-night_stand" title="One-night stand">dalliances</a> of a young <a href="/wiki/Blonde" class="mw-redirect" title="Blonde">blonde</a> <a href="/wiki/Gold-digger" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold-digger">gold-digger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flapper" title="Flapper">flapper</a> named Lorelei Lee "in the <a href="/wiki/Bathtub_gin" title="Bathtub gin">bathtub-gin</a> era of American history."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Published the same year as <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Van_Vechten" title="Carl Van Vechten">Carl Van Vechten</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Firecrackers._A_Realistic_Novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel">Firecrackers</a></i>, the lighthearted work is one of several famous 1925 American novels which focus upon the carefree <a href="/wiki/Hedonism" title="Hedonism">hedonism</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_Age" title="Jazz Age">Jazz Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jazz_Age_Hedonism_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jazz_Age_Hedonism-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Originally serialized as a series of sketches in <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Bazaar" title="Harper's Bazaar">Harper's Bazaar</a></i> during the spring and summer of 1925, Loos' sketches were republished in book form by <a href="/wiki/Boni_%26_Liveright" title="Boni & Liveright">Boni & Liveright</a> in November 1925. Although dismissed by critics as "too light in texture to be very enduring,"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the book garnered the praise of many writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Clemons1974_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Clemons1974-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a> hailed Loos' satirical work as "the <a href="/wiki/Great_American_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Great American novel">great American novel</a>" as the character of Lorelei Lee embodied the <a href="/wiki/Avarice" class="mw-redirect" title="Avarice">avarice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Self-indulgence" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-indulgence">self-indulgence</a> that characterized 1920s America during the presidencies of <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Loos' book became the <a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1920s" title="Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s">second-best selling title of 1926</a> in the United States and a runaway international <a href="/wiki/Bestseller" title="Bestseller">bestseller</a>. It was printed throughout the world in over 13 different languages, including Russian and Chinese.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time Loos died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 93, the work had been printed in over 85 editions and adapted into a 1926 <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">1928 silent comedy</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">1949 Broadway musical</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">1953 film adaptation</a> of the musical.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Loos wrote a sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i>, in 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decades later, Loos was asked during a television interview whether she intended to write a third book. She facetiously replied that the title and theme of a third book would be <i>Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This quip resulted in the interview's abrupt termination.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos">Anita Loos</a> and <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:272px;max-width:272px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:139px;max-width:139px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:182px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photographic portrait of Anita Loos" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/137px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg" decoding="async" width="137" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/206px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg/274px-Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1245" data-file-height="1655" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:129px;max-width:129px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:182px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photographic portrait of H. L. Mencken" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg/127px-H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg/191px-H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg/254px-H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2770" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flow-root"><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos">Anita Loos</a>'s jealousy over <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>'s infatuations with young blonde <a href="/wiki/Showgirl" title="Showgirl">showgirls</a> inspired the premise of the story.</div></div></div></div> <p>While working as a <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Hollywood</a>, the forty-year-old Anita Loos was inspired to write <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> by an incident aboard a train in early 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974Carey198888,_93_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974Carey198888,_93-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I was allowed to lug heavy suitcases from their racks while men sat about and failed to note my efforts," she recalled, and yet, when a young woman—purportedly Mae Davis or <a href="/wiki/Mae_Clarke" title="Mae Clarke">Mae Clarke</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—"happened to drop the novel she was reading, several men jumped to retrieve it."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As an attractive woman, Loos assumed this striking contrast in the men's behavior was because she was a <a href="/wiki/Brunette" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunette">brunette</a> and the other woman was a blonde.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Biographer Gary Carey notes that Loos told differing versions of this origin story: "Over the years, [Loos] gave several accounts of its genesis, each differing as to specific detail, though the gist was always the same. In one version, she is traveling by herself; in a second, she runs into <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" title="Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> and a party of friends. Alone or with Doug, she meets a blond cutie who is either the lady friend of a <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> justice or one of <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">[H. L.] Mencken</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mistress_(lover)" title="Mistress (lover)">playmates</a>. If she belongs to Mencken, as she does in most accounts, her name is either Mae Davis or Mae Clarke, always identified as an actress."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198888_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198888-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Regardless of the differing origin stories, all of them involve Loos aboard a train writing a short story in the persona of a young blonde <a href="/wiki/Flapper" title="Flapper">flapper</a> in which she recounts her dalliances in an intimate diary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When drafting the story, Loos drew upon memories of jealously observing <a href="/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies" title="Ziegfeld Follies">Ziegfeld Follies</a> <a href="/wiki/Showgirl" title="Showgirl">showgirls</a> turn gruff <a href="/wiki/Litt%C3%A9rateur" class="mw-redirect" title="Littérateur">littérateur</a> and magazine editor H. L. Mencken into a love-struck simpleton.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Rodgers2005245Loos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPreface_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Rodgers2005245Loos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPreface-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Prompted by a flirtation that Henry Mencken was having with a stupid little blonde," Loos later explained, "I wrote a skit poking fun at his romance. I had no thought of it ever being printed; my only purpose was to make Henry laugh at himself."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos197412_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos197412-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon arriving at her home, Loos forgot about the story.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She later rediscovered the manuscript when unpacking her suitcase.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Deciding that Mencken might enjoy it, she placed the manuscript in an envelope and mailed it to him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mencken, a close friend to whom Loos was sexually attracted,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> enjoyed the deprecatory piece and forwarded the manuscript to Henry Sell, the editor of <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1974191Loos1998xliPrefaceCarey198894_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1974191Loos1998xliPrefaceCarey198894-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sell accepted the story for publication, and he urged Loos to continue writing about the blonde flapper's escapades.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to the popularity of Loos' stories, the magazine's circulation skyrocketed,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Boni_%26_Liveright" title="Boni & Liveright">Boni & Liveright</a> published the stories in book form in November 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <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>A kiss on the hand may make you feel very nice, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Lorelei Lee, <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:304px;max-width:304px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:302px;max-width:302px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A black and white sketch of Lorelei and Dorothy standing near a Paris monument. They are attired like stereotypical flappers in cloche hats and furs." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg/300px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg/450px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg/600px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Cotys.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1670" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw arrive in 1920s Paris where Lorelei spots a <i><a href="/wiki/Coty_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Coty Inc.">Coty's</a></i> sign.</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:302px;max-width:302px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A black and white sketch of Lorelei and Dorothy confronted by an ogre-like Lady Beekman in their Paris hotel room." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg/300px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg/450px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg/600px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Lady_Beekman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1670" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Lorelei and Dorothy are confronted by Lady Beekman who demands the return of her tiara.</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Little_Rock_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Little_Rock-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a blonde <a href="/wiki/Flapper" title="Flapper">flapper</a> named Lorelei Lee meets Gus Eisman, a <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> businessman whom she calls "Daddy." He <a href="/wiki/Kept_woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Kept woman">installs her</a> in a New York City apartment and spends a small fortune "educating" her. He pays for jewelry from <a href="/wiki/Cartier_(jeweler)" title="Cartier (jeweler)">Cartier</a>, dinners at the <a href="/wiki/Ritz-Carlton_Hotel_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ritz-Carlton Hotel (New York)">Ritz</a>, and tickets to the <a href="/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies" title="Ziegfeld Follies">Ziegfeld Follies</a>. During this time, she meets a married novelist named Gerry Lamson, who frowns upon her liaison with Eisman. Lamson wishes to <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">"save" her</a> from Eisman and asks her to marry him. Not wishing to forgo a trip to Europe paid for by Eisman, Lorelei spurns Lamson.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos19983–18Chapter_1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos19983–18Chapter_1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, she is dismayed that her friend Dorothy Shaw wastes her time with a poor editor named Mencken,<sup id="cite_ref-Mencken_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mencken-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who writes for <a href="/wiki/The_Smart_Set" title="The Smart Set">a dull magazine</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Smart_Set_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smart_Set-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when she could be spending time with wealthier men.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lorelei and Dorothy sail for Europe on the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Majestic_(1914)" title="RMS Majestic (1914)">RMS <i>Majestic</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Majestic_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Majestic-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorelei learns that Bartlett, a former <a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">district attorney</a> who is now a U.S. Senator, is aboard the ship. She recounts a <a href="/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" title="Unreliable narrator">dubious backstory</a> in which a lawyer employed her as a <a href="/wiki/Stenographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Stenographer">stenographer</a>, and she shot him to defend her <a href="/wiki/Virginity" title="Virginity">virtue</a>. During the trial, which Bartlett prosecuted, Lorelei gave such "compelling" testimony that the all-male jury acquitted her. The skeptical judge bought her a ticket to Hollywood so that she could use her acting talents to become a star. Due to her <a href="/wiki/Siren_(mythology)" title="Siren (mythology)">siren-like</a> personality, he nicknamed her "Lorelei".<sup id="cite_ref-Lorelei_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lorelei-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorelei exacts revenge on Bartlett by seducing him and revealing secrets about his senatorial activities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dorothy and Lorelei arrive in England where they are unimpressed with the <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_London" title="Tower of London">Tower of London</a> as it is smaller than "the Hickox building in Little Rock." They are invited to a soirée where English aristocrats sell counterfeit jewels to naive tourists. Lorelei encounters an elderly matron who is selling a <a href="/wiki/Tiara" title="Tiara">diamond tiara</a>. Lorelei casts her eye around the room for a wealthy man to buy it for her and settles on <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hergesheimer" title="Joseph Hergesheimer">Sir Francis Beekman</a>, whom she calls "Piggie." With flattery and the promise of discretion due to his <a href="/wiki/Adultery" title="Adultery">matrimonial status</a>, she persuades him to buy the tiara.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199833–50Chapter_3_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199833–50Chapter_3-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An interior sketch by illustrator Ralph Barton depicting two flappers being greeted by a Frenchman at a cafe who is kissing their hand." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg/180px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="384" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg/270px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg/360px-Ralph_Barton_1925_Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_Illustration_Paris.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Illustration by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Barton" title="Ralph Barton">Ralph Barton</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In Paris, the duo are more excited by jewelry shops than by the "<a href="/wiki/Eiffel_Tower" title="Eiffel Tower">Eyeful Tower</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beekman's wife confronts Lorelei and threatens to ruin her reputation if she does not return the tiara. Dorothy intercedes and notes that Lady Beekman's threats are hollow since Lorelei has no reputation to destroy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, the flappers are confronted by a French lawyer and his son acting on behalf of Lady Beekman. Impressed by the women's beauty, the father and son dine with them and charge all expenses to Lady Beekman. Lorelei has a replica made of the tiara and—by playing the father and son against each other—she keeps the real tiara and sends them away with the fake one.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eisman arrives in Paris and, after shopping trips with Lorelei, he departs for <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He puts Lorelei and Dorothy on the <a href="/wiki/Orient_Express" title="Orient Express">Orient Express</a> where she encounters <a href="/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays">Henry Spoffard</a>, a staunch <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prohibitionism" title="Prohibitionism">prohibitionist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement" title="Temperance movement">moral reformer</a> who delights in <a href="/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood" title="Pre-Code Hollywood">censoring movies</a>. To gain his trust, Lorelei pretends that she is a reformer too and claims that she is trying to save Dorothy from her <a href="/wiki/Gold-digging" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold-digging">sinful lifestyle</a>. At this point, Lorelei is <a href="/wiki/Polyamory" title="Polyamory">two-timing</a> both Eisman and Spoffard.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Vienna, Lorelei meets a "<a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Dr. Froyd</a>." Freud fails to <a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">psycho-analyze</a> her because she has never repressed her inhibitions. Later, Lorelei tells her past history to Spoffard in a sympathetic light. He weeps at the <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">moral outrages</a> which Lorelei has supposedly endured and likens her to <a href="/wiki/Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene">Mary Magdalene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meeting his mother, Lorelei claims to be a <a href="/wiki/Christian_Scientist" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Scientist">Christian Scientist</a> and that drinking <a href="/wiki/Champagne" title="Champagne">champagne</a> is encouraged by her religion. They become drunk together, and Lorelei gives his mother a <a href="/wiki/Cloche_hat" title="Cloche hat">cloche hat</a>. Since Spoffard's mother has an <a href="/wiki/1900s_in_Western_fashion" title="1900s in Western fashion">Edwardian hairstyle</a>, Lorelei <a href="/wiki/Bobbed_hair" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobbed hair">bobs</a> her hair for the hat to fit. Soon after, Spoffard proposes marriage to Lorelei by letter. She plans to use this letter as evidence of <a href="/wiki/Breach_of_promise" title="Breach of promise">breach of promise</a> and obtain a <a href="/wiki/Financial_settlement" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial settlement">financial settlement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tiring of Spoffard, Lorelei nudges him towards breach of promise by embarking upon a shopping spree and charging it all to his accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, she meets Gilbertson Montrose, a handsome screenwriter. Montrose advises her that it would be wiser to marry Spoffard so that he could finance Montrose's new movie in which Lorelei could star. Lorelei decides she will marry Spoffard while pursuing a clandestine sexual liaison with Montrose. She rushes to <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(1910%E2%80%931963)" title="Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963)">Penn Station</a> and finds Spoffard. She claims her extravagance was faked to test his love. Remorseful, Spoffard vows to marry her and to finance Montrose's film.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_characters">Major characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Major characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg/220px-Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="370" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg/330px-Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Lillian_Lorraine_-_Jun_1922_Tatler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="434" data-file-height="729" /></a><figcaption>Showgirl <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Lorraine" title="Lillian Lorraine">Lillian Lorraine</a> partly inspired the character of Lorelei Lee.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Lorelei Lee</b>—a young blonde flapper from Arkansas.<sup id="cite_ref-Little_Rock_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Little_Rock-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a relentless <a href="/wiki/Gold_digger" title="Gold digger">gold digger</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-The_Twenties_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Twenties-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lorelei epitomizes the insouciant hedonism and unbridled avarice of the Jazz Age.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFitzgerald194515_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFitzgerald194515-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character was partly inspired by actresses <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Hopkins_Joyce" title="Peggy Hopkins Joyce">Peggy Hopkins Joyce</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Lorraine" title="Lillian Lorraine">Lillian Lorraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECantu201560Carey1988100_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECantu201560Carey1988100-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the most notorious of <a href="/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld" class="mw-redirect" title="Florenz Ziegfeld">Florenz Ziegfeld</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Showgirl" title="Showgirl">showgirls</a>, Lorraine "was fond of all things sterling, <a href="/wiki/Carat_(mass)" title="Carat (mass)">forty-carat</a> or unflawed, and she collected so many trinkets that when forced to sell the lot at the height of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">[Great] Depression</a>, she pocketed over two hundred thousand dollars."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988100-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Dorothy Shaw</b>—Lorelei's world-weary and perceptive brunette companion based upon Loos herself as well as her friend <a href="/wiki/Constance_Talmadge" title="Constance Talmadge">Constance Talmadge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100Loos197431–32_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988100Loos197431–32-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Henry Spoffard</b>—a staunch <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> reformer and <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship" title="Film censorship">film censor</a> based upon <a href="/wiki/Teetotalism" title="Teetotalism">teetotaling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moralizing" class="mw-redirect" title="Moralizing">moralizing</a> Hollywood film czar <a href="/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays">Will H. Hays</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECantu201558_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECantu201558-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Sir Francis Beekman</b>—a <a href="/wiki/Toothlessness" title="Toothlessness">toothless</a> flirt nicknamed "Piggie" who gives a diamond tiara to Lorelei in exchange for her physical affections. The character was modeled upon both 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> who pestered Loos and other attractive young women at Hollywood soirées.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988100-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Lady Beekman</b>—the wife of Sir Francis Beekman who stalks Lorelei and Dorothy to France in order to obtain the tiara which her husband gifted to the blonde flapper.</li> <li><b>Gus Eisman</b>—a wealthy international businessman known as "the Button King of Chicago" who serves as Lorelei's <a href="/wiki/Sugar_baby" class="mw-redirect" title="Sugar baby">sugar daddy</a> until she later weds Henry Spoffard.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character bears a resemblance to globe-trotting entrepreneur and con-artist <a href="/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger" title="Ivar Kreuger">Ivar Kreuger</a> who was popularly known as "the Match King" during the Twenties.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShaplen19609_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaplen19609-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Edward Goldmark</b>—a <a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producer</a> based upon Polish-American <a href="/wiki/Impresario" title="Impresario">impresario</a> <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn" title="Samuel Goldwyn">Samuel Goldwyn</a> who cultivated young blonde actresses such as <a href="/wiki/Anna_Sten" title="Anna Sten">Anna Sten</a>.</li> <li><b>Gilbertson Montrose</b>—a handsome young Hollywood screenwriter with whom Lorelei plans to have an extramarital affair after her marriage to Spoffard. The character was likely modeled upon Anita Loos' husband, screenwriter <a href="/wiki/John_Emerson_(filmmaker)" title="John Emerson (filmmaker)">John Emerson</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:147px;max-width:147px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:178px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:F._Scott_Fitzgerald_(1929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray)_Cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A photograph of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald sitting at a desk." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg/145px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg/218px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg/290px-F._Scott_Fitzgerald_%281929_photo_portrait_by_Nickolas_Muray%29_Cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="1922" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:141px;max-width:141px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:178px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_(greyscale_and_cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A photograph of writer William Faulkner dressed in a suit and seated in a chair." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg/139px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="139" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg/209px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg/278px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner_%28greyscale_and_cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2507" data-file-height="3212" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a> (left) and <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> (right) both praised Loos' satirical novel.</div></div></div></div> <p><i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady</i> became an instant success the moment it hit bookstores in November 1925 and sold out all copies on the day it was released.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second edition of 60,000 copies sold out within the next thirty days.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afterward, the novel sold on average 1,000 copies per day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xli,_xliiPreface_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xli,_xliiPreface-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos' work became the <a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1920s" title="Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s">second-best selling title of 1926</a> in the United States and outsold <a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby" title="The Great Gatsby">The Great Gatsby</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser" title="Theodore Dreiser">Theodore Dreiser</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/An_American_Tragedy" title="An American Tragedy">An American Tragedy</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/In_Our_Time_(short_story_collection)" title="In Our Time (short story collection)">In Our Time</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound">Ezra Pound</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cantos" title="The Cantos">The Cantos</a></i>, and <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Soldier%27s_Pay" class="mw-redirect" title="Soldier's Pay">Soldier's Pay</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the book sold phenomenally, the critical response was mixed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whereas some reviewers described the work as "droll and merry," "side-splittingly funny," and "sly and sophisticated," other reviewers were less enthusiastic and patently unamused.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ruth Goodman in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Tribune">The New York Tribune</a></i> disliked Loos' misspelling words for comedic effect.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198898_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198898-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Columnist <a href="/wiki/Antoinette_Donnelly" title="Antoinette Donnelly">Doris Blake</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Daily_News" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Daily News">The New York Daily News</a></i> criticized Loos for asserting that blondes are more sexually appealing to men than brunettes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake1925_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlake1925-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perhaps the most laudatory review was by <a href="/wiki/Herman_J._Mankiewicz" title="Herman J. Mankiewicz">Herman J. Mankiewicz</a>—the future screenwriter of <i><a href="/wiki/Citizen_Kane" title="Citizen Kane">Citizen Kane</a></i>—who gave Loos' book a rave review in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> and summarized the novel as "a gorgeously smart and intelligent piece of work."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMankiewicz1925_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMankiewicz1925-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the mixed critical reviews, other authors heaped copious praise upon the work. Author William Faulkner wrote a personal letter to Loos after reading her novel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463Carey198898_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos198463Carey198898-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Filled with congratulatory remarks, Faulkner lauded the brilliance of <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> and complimented Loos regarding the originality of her characters such as Dorothy Shaw.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos198463-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>, author of the dystopian novel <i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i>, likewise wrote a letter of praise to Loos.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Carey198898_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Carey198898-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result of this letter, Huxley and Loos later met in 1926 when the British novelist visited America for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988189_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988189-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:40%; ; font-size: 95%;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote center-aligned" style=""> <p>"I have just read the Blonde book.... Please accept my envious congratulations on [the character of] Dorothy.... My God, it's charming.... I am still rather <a href="/wiki/Victorian_morality" title="Victorian morality">Victorian in my prejudices</a> regarding the intelligence of women, despite <a href="/wiki/Elinor_Wylie" title="Elinor Wylie">Elinor Wylie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willa_Cather" title="Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a> and all the balance of them. But I wish I had thought of Dorothy first." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="center-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, letter to Anita Loos<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos198463-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:40%; ; font-size: 95%;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote center-aligned" style=""> <p>"[I am] now reading the great American novel (at last!) and I want to know if there are—or will be—others and if you know the young woman, who must be a genius." </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="center-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a>, postcard to <a href="/wiki/Frank_Crowninshield" title="Frank Crowninshield">Frank Crowninshield</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988108_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988108-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Among the list of names of other great authors from the time period, F. Scott Fitzgerald, <a href="/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White">E. B. White</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson" title="Sherwood Anderson">Sherwood Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Empson" title="William Empson">William Empson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rose_Macauley" class="mw-redirect" title="Rose Macauley">Rose Macauley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Bennett" title="Arnold Bennett">Arnold Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a> all praised Loos' novel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Mankiewicz1925Loos_Play_Amuses_London1928Carey1988108_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Mankiewicz1925Loos_Play_Amuses_London1928Carey1988108-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wharton declared <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> as "the <a href="/wiki/Great_American_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Great American novel">great American novel</a>," ostensibly because the character of Lorelei Lee embodied the avarice, frivolity, and <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_intoxication" title="Alcohol intoxication">immoderation</a> that characterized 1920s America during <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Calvin Coolidge</a> years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Joyce stated that—even though his eyesight was failing him—he "reclined on a sofa reading <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> for three days" while taking a break from writing <i><a href="/wiki/Finnegans_Wake" title="Finnegans Wake">Finnegans Wake</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Carey198898Loos1998xliPreface_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Carey198898Loos1998xliPreface-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_Santayana" title="George Santayana">George Santayana</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Americans" title="Spanish Americans">Spanish-American</a> philosopher and author, facetiously averred that <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> was "the best book on philosophy written by an American."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitman1981Clemons1974_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitman1981Clemons1974-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells later escorted Loos out to dinner when she visited London as a reward for her excellent work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even the <a href="/wiki/Edward_VIII" title="Edward VIII">Prince of Wales</a> was reported to have been so amused by the novel that he purchased many copies of the book and gave them to his companions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The work's popularity crossed national borders into countries such as the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)" title="Republic of China (1912–1949)">Republic of China</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, and the book was translated into more than a dozen different languages and published in 85 editions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981Loos1998xli,_xliiPreface_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981Loos1998xli,_xliiPreface-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1927, Loos wrote a well-received sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/But_Gentlemen_Marry_Brunettes" title="But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes">But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several decades later, Loos was asked during a television interview in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> whether she intended to write a third book. She facetiously replied that the title and theme of a third book would be <i>Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This remark resulted in the interview's abrupt termination.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_analysis">Critical analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Critical analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Critics in <a href="/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist">socialist</a> countries interpreted the work to be an <a href="/wiki/Anti-capitalism" title="Anti-capitalism">anti-capitalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">polemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "When the book reached Russia," Loos recalled, "it was embraced by Soviet authorities as evidence of the exploitation of helpless female blondes by <a href="/wiki/Toxic_masculinity" title="Toxic masculinity">predatory magnates</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalistic system</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, with their native love of grief, stripped <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> of all its fun and the plot which they uncovered was dire."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These reviews focused on the "rape of its heroine, an attempt by her to commit murder, the heroine being cast adrift in the gangster-infested New York of <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition days</a>, her relentless pursuit by predatory males, her renunciation of the only man who ever stirred her inner soul as a woman, her nauseous connection with a male who is repulsive to her physically, mentally and emotionally and her final engulfment in the grim monotony of <a href="/wiki/Suburban" class="mw-redirect" title="Suburban">suburban</a> <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos denied any such intentions in the work and was amused by such interpretations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Loos publicly ridiculed any social or gender interpretations of her comedic novel,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> contemporary literary critics have nonetheless posited such critiques of the novel, delving into various interpretations of sex and the body.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(play)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:141px;max-width:141px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:199px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/June_Walker" title="June Walker"><img alt="A photograph of actress June Walker in profile with long auburn hair." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg/139px-June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg" decoding="async" width="139" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg/209px-June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg/278px-June_Walker_-_Feb_1920_Shadowland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="402" data-file-height="579" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:147px;max-width:147px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:199px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Edna_Hibbard" title="Edna Hibbard"><img alt="A photograph of actress Edna Hibbard in a black hat and black dress." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ednahibbard.jpg/145px-Ednahibbard.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ednahibbard.jpg/218px-Ednahibbard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ednahibbard.jpg/290px-Ednahibbard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2312" data-file-height="3173" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/June_Walker" title="June Walker">June Walker</a> (left) portrayed Lorelei and <a href="/wiki/Edna_Hibbard" title="Edna Hibbard">Edna Hibbard</a> (right) portrayed Dorothy in the 1926 play.</div></div></div></div> <p>Following the widespread success of the book, Loos was contacted by <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> <a href="/wiki/Impresario" title="Impresario">impresario</a> <a href="/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld" class="mw-redirect" title="Florenz Ziegfeld">Florenz Ziegfeld</a> who suggested to Loos that he adapt the story as a glamorous musical.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ziegfeld said that actress <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Miller" title="Marilyn Miller">Marilyn Miller</a>—one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s—should play the siren role of Lorelei Lee.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To her regret, Loos had already signed a contract with rival Broadway producer <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Selwyn" title="Edgar Selwyn">Edgar Selwyn</a> to adapt the story as a straight comedy, and she could not break the contract.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the contract with Selwyn, Loos and her playwright husband <a href="/wiki/John_Emerson_(filmmaker)" title="John Emerson (filmmaker)">John Emerson</a> adapted the novel as a Broadway stage play.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brunette <a href="/wiki/June_Walker" title="June Walker">June Walker</a> was cast as Lorelei and performed the role in a blonde <a href="/wiki/Wig" title="Wig">wig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Comedienne <a href="/wiki/Edna_Hibbard" title="Edna Hibbard">Edna Hibbard</a> played Dorothy and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Morgan" title="Frank Morgan">Frank Morgan</a> portrayed reformer Henry Spoffard.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Atkinson1949_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Atkinson1949-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play debuted in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> on April 28, 1926 <sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was performed 201 times from 1926 to 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the first actress to portray Lorelei Lee on Broadway, June Walker was instrumental in an interpretation that helped define the character. She was said to have "played a role that was as much her creation as that of Anita Loos."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Tossing her golden curls, <a href="/wiki/Coquettish" class="mw-redirect" title="Coquettish">blinking her eyes</a> and twirling her waist-length string of pearls", Walker's version of Lorelei embodied the <a href="/wiki/Flapper" title="Flapper">flapper</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Roaring Twenties</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The success of the play launched Walker's career, and she had further Broadway successes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Loos licensed her novel for use in a daily newspaper <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> series that ran from April 1926 to September 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011Loos1949_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011Loos1949-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The comic strip was not an adaptation of the novel but placed its characters in new comedic situations. Although the writing was credited to Loos, it was presumably <a href="/wiki/Ghostwriter" title="Ghostwriter">ghost-written</a> by the artists, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Huget" title="Virginia Huget">Virginia Huget</a> and Phil Cook.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This original 1926 series was reprinted in newspapers from 1929 to the early 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A lobby card for the 1928 film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Actress Ruth Taylor is being proposed to by a gentleman on his knees." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg/220px-Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg/330px-Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg/440px-Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_-_1928.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1981" data-file-height="1563" /></a><figcaption>Lobby card from the American comedy film <i><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</a></i> (1928) starring <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Taylor_(actress)" title="Ruth Taylor (actress)">Ruth Taylor</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1928, the book was adapted as a <a href="/wiki/Silent_film" title="Silent film">silent</a> <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)">Paramount motion picture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under that contract, Loos and her husband Emerson wrote the screenplay and had "to prepare the final scenario, select the cast, and have a hand in supervising the production," as well as write the inter-titles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was directed by <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_St._Clair_(filmmaker)" title="Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)">Malcolm St. Clair</a>, and Lorelei Lee was played by <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Taylor_(actress)" title="Ruth Taylor (actress)">Ruth Taylor</a>. Loos hand-picked her for the role because she bore "a remarkable resemblance to <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Barton" title="Ralph Barton">Ralph Barton</a>'s illustrations in the book."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Loos later described Taylor's performance as "so ideal for the role that she even played it off-screen and married a wealthy <a href="/wiki/Stockbroker" title="Stockbroker">broker</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the film's success, Taylor married a prominent New York City businessman and became a <a href="/wiki/Park_Avenue" title="Park Avenue">Park Avenue</a> <a href="/wiki/Socialite" title="Socialite">socialite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the 1928 film, Loos altered the story to include a prologue featuring Lorelei's grandfather as a <a href="/wiki/Gold_prospecting" title="Gold prospecting">gold-obsessed prospector</a> and an epilogue in which Lorelei's impoverished Arkansas family learn via radio of her lavish wedding.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1929, Loos' <a href="/wiki/Gold_digger" title="Gold digger">gold-digger epic</a> had been adapted for a variety of different mediums: "It had been done in book form and serialized in magazines and syndicated in newspapers and designed into dress material and printed into wall paper and made into a comic strip and had even had a song by <a href="/wiki/Irving_Berlin" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over a decade later in 1941, theater director <a href="/wiki/John_C._Wilson" title="John C. Wilson">John C. Wilson</a> suggested that Loos permit a musical adaptation of the story.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson's desired version never came to fruition. The musical adaptation was produced by <a href="/wiki/Herman_Levin" title="Herman Levin">Herman Levin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Smith_(designer)" title="Oliver Smith (designer)">Oliver Smith</a>, whom Loos met while sailing on a <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamship</a> to the United States from Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)">1949 musical edition</a> starred <a href="/wiki/Carol_Channing" title="Carol Channing">Carol Channing</a> as Lorelei Lee and Yvonne Adair as Dorothy Shaw, and ran for 740 performances on Broadway.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The musical's success prompted a brief sartorial revival of 1920s fashions by dress factories.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)">second and more popular film adaptation</a> of the novel was derived from the 1949 musical and released in 1953 by <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrowther1953Carey1988231_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrowther1953Carey1988231-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This second adaptation was filmed in <a href="/wiki/Technicolor" title="Technicolor">technicolor</a> and featured <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> as Lorelei and <a href="/wiki/Jane_Russell" title="Jane Russell">Jane Russell</a> as Dorothy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrowther1953_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECrowther1953-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In order to conform to the moral precepts of the <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Motion Picture Production Code">Motion Picture Production Code</a>, much of the sexual promiscuity of the 1949 musical was expurgated in the 1953 film adaptation as <a href="/wiki/Film_censorship" title="Film censorship">film censors</a> in the 1950s United States deemed any authentic cinematic interpretation of the bygone Jazz Age—with its libertine sexuality and bra-less flappers—to be impermissible.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMPAA_Records1952_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMPAA_Records1952-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrady1946Doherty19996_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrady1946Doherty19996-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(play)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)"><i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (1926 play)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1928_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)"><i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (1928 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(musical)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)"><i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (musical)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)" title="Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)"><i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> (1953 film)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><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 li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Title_Note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Title_Note_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The first edition of the book has the title <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady</i> on the front jacket. The book cover, spine, and interior title pages state the title as <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Little_Rock-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Little_Rock_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Little_Rock_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Loos chose <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> as Lorelei's birthplace due to H. L. Mencken's 1917 essay on American culture where he castigated the state for its ignorant inhabitants and branded it as "the Sahara of the Bozart"—a pun on the <a href="/wiki/Southern_American_English" title="Southern American English">Southern pronunciation</a> of "<a href="/wiki/Fine_art" title="Fine art">beaux-arts</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mencken-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mencken_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is a reference to writer, essayist, and literary magazine editor <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>. Author <a href="/wiki/Anita_Loos" title="Anita Loos">Anita Loos</a> was an intimate friend of Mencken and regarded him as "an idol to adore for a lifetime."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Smart_Set-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Smart_Set_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is a reference to H. L. Mencken's literary magazine <i><a href="/wiki/The_Smart_Set" title="The Smart Set">The Smart Set</a></i> which was one of the era's most vogue publications.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Majestic-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Majestic_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In 1925, the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Majestic_(1914)" title="RMS Majestic (1914)">RMS <i>Majestic</i></a> was the largest passenger ship in the world and an internationally famous icon during the Jazz Age.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lorelei-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Lorelei_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The name "Lorelei" is a reference to the 1801 poem by German author <a href="/wiki/Clemens_Brentano" title="Clemens Brentano">Clemens Brentano</a> which recounts the story of a <a href="/wiki/Siren_(mythology)" title="Siren (mythology)">siren</a> who bewitches men and causes their deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199826Chapter_2_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199826Chapter_2-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For further details, see <a href="/wiki/Lorelei#Original_folklore_and_modern_myth" title="Lorelei">folklore regarding Lorelei</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Twenties-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Twenties_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Loos, during the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_Age" title="Jazz Age">Jazz Age</a>, "a girl's chief asset was the allure with which she disguised her normal acquisitiveness. That type reached its perfection in the <a href="/wiki/Gold_digger" title="Gold digger">gold diggers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Twenties</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos197418–19,_190_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos197418–19,_190-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 25: "Anita Loos's comic masterpiece, <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i>, is the story of a gold-digger's progress in the bathtub-gin era of American history."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jazz_Age_Hedonism-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jazz_Age_Hedonism_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFitzgerald1945">Fitzgerald 1945</a>, p. 15: "[The Jazz Age represented] a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos_Play_Amuses_London1928_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos_Play_Amuses_London1928">Loos Play Amuses London 1928</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Clemons1974-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Clemons1974_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1984">Loos 1984</a>, p. 166; <a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1949">Loos 1949</a>; <a href="#CITEREFWhitman1981">Whitman 1981</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliiPreface_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. xlii, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974Carey198888,_93-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974Carey198888,_93_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. xxxvii, xxxviii, Preface; <a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, pp. 88, 93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 88: "In most accounts, her name is either Mae Davis or Mae Clarke, always identified as an actress. Miss Clarke, best remembered for getting a grapefuit squashed in her face in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Public_Enemy" title="The Public Enemy">The Public Enemy</a></i>, insists that she was not Anita's model. She did meet Anita on a train, but not until several years later".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPrefaceClemons1974_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. xxxvii, xxxviii, Preface; <a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198888-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198888_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198893-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198893_13-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Rodgers2005245Loos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPreface-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Rodgers2005245Loos1998xxxvii,_xxxviiiPreface_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>; <a href="#CITEREFRodgers2005">Rodgers 2005</a>, p. 245; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. xxxvii, xxxviii, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos197412-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos197412_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1974">Loos 1974</a>, p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERodgers2005245_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRodgers2005">Rodgers 2005</a>, p. 245.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1974191Loos1998xliPrefaceCarey198894-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1974191Loos1998xliPrefaceCarey198894_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1974">Loos 1974</a>, p. 191; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. xli, Preface; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 94.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198895-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198895_18-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 95.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos19983–18Chapter_1-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos19983–18Chapter_1_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 3–18, Chapter 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xliPreface_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. xli, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199819–32Chapter_2_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 19–32, Chapter 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199826Chapter_2-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199826Chapter_2_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. 26, Chapter 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199833–50Chapter_3-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199833–50Chapter_3_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 33–50, Chapter 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199851–73Chapter_4_29-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 51–73, Chapter 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199874–98Chapter_5_30-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 74–98, Chapter 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos199899–123Chapter_6_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. 99–123, Chapter 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos197418–19,_190-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos197418–19,_190_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1974">Loos 1974</a>, pp. 18–19, 190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFitzgerald194515-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFitzgerald194515_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFitzgerald1945">Fitzgerald 1945</a>, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECantu201560Carey1988100-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECantu201560Carey1988100_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCantu2015">Cantu 2015</a>, p. 60; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988100-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988100Loos197431–32-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988100Loos197431–32_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 100; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1974">Loos 1974</a>, pp. 31–32.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECantu201558-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECantu201558_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCantu2015">Cantu 2015</a>, p. 58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaplen19609-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShaplen19609_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShaplen1960">Shaplen 1960</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xli,_xliiPreface-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xli,_xliiPreface_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. xli, xlii, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey198898-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey198898_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 98.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlake1925-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlake1925_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBlake1925">Blake 1925</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMankiewicz1925-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMankiewicz1925_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMankiewicz1925">Mankiewicz 1925</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos198463Carey198898-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463Carey198898_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1984">Loos 1984</a>, p. 63; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 98.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos198463-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos198463_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1984">Loos 1984</a>, p. 63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Carey198898-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1984166Carey198898_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1984">Loos 1984</a>, p. 166; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 98.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988189-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988189_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 189.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECarey1988108-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarey1988108_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Mankiewicz1925Loos_Play_Amuses_London1928Carey1988108-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Mankiewicz1925Loos_Play_Amuses_London1928Carey1988108_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>; <a href="#CITEREFMankiewicz1925">Mankiewicz 1925</a>; <a href="#CITEREFLoos_Play_Amuses_London1928">Loos Play Amuses London 1928</a>; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Carey198898Loos1998xliPreface-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClemons1974Carey198898Loos1998xliPreface_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 98; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. xli, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitman1981Clemons1974-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitman1981Clemons1974_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWhitman1981">Whitman 1981</a>; <a href="#CITEREFClemons1974">Clemons 1974</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1974">Loos 1974</a>, p. 63: "The King replied that he might look up the author of <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i> and tell her that the Prince of Wales had bought nineteen copies of the book and that the entire royal family found it very 'laughable'."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981Loos1998xli,_xliiPreface-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Whitman1981Loos1998xli,_xliiPreface_53-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1949">Loos 1949</a>; <a href="#CITEREFWhitman1981">Whitman 1981</a>; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, pp. xli, xlii, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1998xxxixPreface_54-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1998">Loos 1998</a>, p. xxxix, Preface.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wagner, Johanna M. "Repositioning Lorelei's Education: Mind, Body, and Sex(uality) in Anita Loos' <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes</i>. <i>College Literature</i>, vol. 44, no. 4, 2017, pp. 644-674.<a href="//doi.org/10.1353/lit.2017.0037" class="extiw" title="doi:10.1353/lit.2017.0037">doi:10.1353/lit.2017.0037</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949_56-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1949">Loos 1949</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949_57-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtkinson1949_57-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAtkinson1949">Atkinson 1949</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJune_Walker_Obituary1966_58-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJune_Walker_Obituary1966">June Walker Obituary 1966</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoos1949Atkinson1949-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoos1949Atkinson1949_59-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoos1949">Loos 1949</a>; 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April 11, 1926.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Detroit+Free+Press&rft.atitle=%27Gentlemen+Prefer+Blondes%27+Gets+World+Premiere+Next+Week&rft.date=1926-04-11&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Farticle%2Fdetroit-free-press-gentlemen-prefer-blo%2F158287234%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGentlemen+Prefer+Blondes+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011Loos1949-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011Loos1949_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHoltz2011">Holtz 2011</a>; <a href="#CITEREFLoos1949">Loos 1949</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011_62-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHoltz2011_62-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHoltz2011">Holtz 2011</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELorelei_Lee_On_Film1927_63-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLorelei_Lee_On_Film1927">Lorelei Lee On Film 1927</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECrowther1953Carey1988231-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrowther1953Carey1988231_64-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrowther1953">Crowther 1953</a>; <a href="#CITEREFCarey1988">Carey 1988</a>, p. 231.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECrowther1953-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECrowther1953_65-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCrowther1953">Crowther 1953</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMPAA_Records1952-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMPAA_Records1952_66-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMPAA_Records1952">MPAA Records 1952</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrady1946Doherty19996-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrady1946Doherty19996_67-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBrady1946">Brady 1946</a>; <a href="#CITEREFDoherty1999">Doherty 1999</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(novel)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAtkinson1949" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson" title="Brooks Atkinson">Atkinson, Brooks</a> (December 9, 1949). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1949/12/09/archives/first-night-at-the-theatre-gentlemen-prefer-blondes-with-carol.html">"First Night at the Theatre: 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' with Carol Channing at the Ziegfeld"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 11,</span> 2022</span>. <q><span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'The <a href="/wiki/Eric_Johnston" title="Eric Johnston">Johnston Office</a>,' according to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Maibaum" title="Richard Maibaum">Richard Maibaum</a>, forbade any motion picture which might kick-start 'a <a href="/wiki/Jazz_Age" title="Jazz Age">new jazz cycle</a>' in American society.</q></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=Alarum+in+Hollywood&rft.pages=65%2C+67&rft.date=1946-10-13&rft.aulast=Brady&rft.aufirst=Thomas+F.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnyti.ms%2F2G67oZ5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGentlemen+Prefer+Blondes+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCantu2015" class="citation book cs1">Cantu, Maya (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4y_eCgAAQBAJ"><i>American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl, from Irene to Gypsy</i></a>. 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London: <a href="/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan">Palgrave Macmillan</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-137-53460-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-137-53460-6"><bdi>978-1-137-53460-6</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Cinderellas+on+the+Broadway+Musical+Stage%3A+Imagining+the+Working+Girl%2C+from+Irene+to+Gypsy&rft.place=London&rft.series=Palgrave+Studies+in+Theatre+and+Performance+History&rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1-137-53460-6&rft.aulast=Cantu&rft.aufirst=Maya&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4y_eCgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGentlemen+Prefer+Blondes+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarey1988" class="citation book cs1">Carey, Garey (October 1, 1988). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anitaloosbiograp0000care"><i>Anita Loos: A Biography</i></a></span>. 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New York: <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_Press" title="Columbia University Press">Columbia University Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/precodehollywood0000dohe/page/6">6</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-231-11095-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-231-11095-2"><bdi>0-231-11095-2</bdi></a> – via Internet Archive. <q>The moral guardians tried their damnedest to break up the parade of wastrels marching in the vanguard of the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_Age" title="Jazz Age">Jazz Age</a> assault on <a href="/wiki/Victorian_morality" title="Victorian morality">Victorian values</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)" 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; 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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> (1945)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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