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Anita Loos war die erste bedeutende Drehbuchautorin Hollywoods. Ihr größter Erfolg war Blondinen bevorzugt (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).. 1890 starb ihre achtjährige Schwester nach einer Blinddarm-Notoperation. 1893 zog die Familie nach San Francisco, 1903 nach San Diego, wo ihrem Vater Richard Beers Loos, bekannt als R. Beers, die Leitung des San Diego Theaters übertragen wurde.
Anita Loos. Writer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. While she is now best known for her book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Anita Loos was one of Hollywood's foremost early screenwriters. She began writing screen scenarios for the 'Biograph Company' at an early age (though not 12, as she later claimed), and the first to be produced, The New York Hat (1912), was not only directed by the legendary D.W ...
29. Nov. 2017 · Though she rejected the life of acting for herself, Anita was drawn to the world of film and theater. She began writing film scripts in 1912, and went on to create more than two hundred screenplays for D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Constance Talmage. Between 1912 and 1915, she churned out more than 100 scripts, only a few of which weren’t filmed in that era of silent films.
23. Aug. 2024 · In 1897, Anita and her sister were both in the play “Quo Vadis” because their father made them. Richard Beers Loos was an alcoholic and a spendthrift, so his daughters, Anita and Gladys, had to work in the theater to help support the family. During one of their drunken father’s outbursts, Gladys died, and Anita had to be the family’s ...
8. Mai 2018 · While Loos delights in name-dropping, she is less willing to discuss her own personal life, devoting scant attention to her relationships with adopted daughter "Miss Moore," her long-time housekeeper Gladys, and bandleader Peter Duchin, whom she cared for after his mother died in childbirth.
Published with the help of Mary Anita Loos, the writer’s niece who holds the bulk of Loos’s papers and manuscripts, this collection may encourage more analysis of a remarkable motion picture career, with special attention to the subtle complexity of Anita Loos’s humor. For most of her adult life, Anita Loos rose at five o’clock each morning to write, and her career in films spanned ...
Tiny little Anita Loos, author of the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was the highest paid screen writer in Hollywood for decades. This book is a fun, readable autobiography about both the professional and troubled personal life of a brilliant satirist and every section of her life is hugely entertaining.
