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  1. Richard Beers Loos (October 4, 1860 – March 6, 1944), was an American journalist and newspaper publisher. His daughter was Anita Loos, a playwright and author who wrote, among other titles, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes .

    • Anita Writes in New York
    • Anita Writes The Great American Novel
    • Anita Writes in Hollywood
    • Anita Survives The Worst Year of Her Life
    • Anita Writes Bicoastally
    • Anita, Back in New York at Last!
    • Anita Writes Her Memoirs

    Soon thereafter, the trio became a duo. Loos and Emerson signed a deal with Famous Players-Lasky and moved to New York, creating “John Emerson-Anita Loos Productions,” working with newcomers like Billie Burke, Marion Davies, and Norma Talmadge. This was when Emerson began, untruthfully, to claim co-authorship credit on Loos’ scripts, demanding top ...

    Loos began to write what would later become Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on a train trip to Hollywood in mid-1924. “Prompted by a flirtation that Henry Mencken was having with a stupid little blonde,” she recalled, “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, w...

    In late 1931 “there suddenly came out of left field” Loos recalled, “an offer from MGM for me to write a movie script at $3500 a week!” Leaving Emerson behind, she boarded the Twentieth Century Limited at Grand Central Station, bound for a far different California than the one she had left. “In Kansas City,” she wrote, “the conductor brought me a t...

    When Thalberg died in late 1936, MGM descended into chaos. Producer Bernie Hyman, hoping to replicate the success of San Francisco, put Loos to work on a vehicle for Harlow and Clark Gable called Saratoga (1937). Hyman and Loos fought about the script, and then Harlow died halfway through filming; MGM released the movie quickly in order to capitali...

    Seizing the opportunity to work again with Loos, Joe Schenck, now a chief executive at Twentieth Century-Fox, offered her a position working exclusively on vehicles for upcoming star Dorothy McGuire; the best thing about this arrangement was that she didn't have to report to the studio, and could write anywhere. Perhaps looking for a way back to Ne...

    Loos found a small apartment at the Plaza Hotel Annex on West 58th Street, and happily immersed herself in multiple projects for the stage—an adaptation of She Stoops to Conquer for Mary Martin, which was abandoned after Martin took a career-changing role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific (1948); a play about Josephine Baker, alternately t...

    In 1965, Loos learned her adaptation of The King’s Mare had found a West End producer; the play had a moderately successful run in London. Her memoir, A Girl Like I, which covered the periods of her childhood and early career in Hollywood and New York, up to the publication of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was published in September, 1966. It garnered ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Anita_LoosAnita Loos - Wikipedia

    Richard Beers Loos. Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 [1] [2] – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation.

  3. Loos characterizes both masculine limitation and the blind cartographies of the powerful, each pole bound to the other by a common and expertly performed demonstrable perception of social privilege.

  4. 17. Aug. 2023 · Ihre Mutter ist Minerva "Minnie" Ellen Smith, 29 Jahre alt, ihr Vater Richard Beers Loos, bekannt als R. Beers, drei Jahre jünger als sie, Journalist & Verleger einer Boulevardzeitung, der " Sisson Mascot ", bei der seine Frau die meiste Arbeit erledigt.

  5. 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.

  6. American Actresses. Childhood & Early Life. She was born to Richard Beers Loos and Minnie Ellen Smith on April 26, 1889, at Mount Shasta, a city located in California. Her parents then christened her as Corinne Anita Loos.