Anita Loos

Corinne Anita Loos ( born April 26, 1888 in Sisson, California, † August 18 1981 in New York City, New York) was an American screenwriter.

Life

Anita Loos was the first major Hollywood screenwriter. Her biggest success was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ).

1890 died in her eight year old sister after an appendectomy - emergency surgery. 1893 the family moved to San Francisco in 1903 to San Diego, where her father Richard Beers Loos, known as R. Beers, head of the San Diego theater has been transferred. There Loos graduated two years later than usual from the high school. Even as a child she stood on the stage, for example in a stage version of Quo Vadis 1894. Later she wrote for a newspaper in San Diego and for the New York Morning Telegraph. Soon she began, dramas and eventually writing screenplays. Not all plants have survived. The New York Hat was the first of their screenplays made into a film (1912). At 18, she received a firm commitment as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Since her marriage with director John Emerson in 1919 she lived in New York and stopped writing until the couple had to return to Hollywood due to financial problems.

There are numerous screenplays and 1926, the story Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became famous emerged. It has been translated into 14 languages and was a template for a Broadway play, a musical, a silent film, and especially the movie with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in 1953 more books followed: . But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928 ), A Mouse is Born (1951 ), No Mother to Guide Her ( 1961). In Hollywood, worked from 1941 also her niece, the screenwriter Mary Loos.

In two autobiographies it mainly describes the initial years of Hollywood cinema and provides insight into the production plant: A Girl Like I ( 1966) and Kiss Hollywood Good -by (1974). They also published in the magazines Harper 's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

Anita Loos died on 18 August 1981 in a hospital in New York after a heart attack.

Works

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. Illustr. by Ralph Barton. In: Harper 's Bazaar in 1925.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. Illustr. by Ralph Barton. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925, 217 pp.

Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1926, 235, 32 S.
Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1930, 255 pp.
Illustr. by Ralph Barton. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press 2004, 191 pp.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. A Gay and Witty Novel, Toronto: Better Publications of Canada 1925, 125 pp.

Illustr. by Ralph Barton. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press / Bath: Chivers 2004, 187 pp.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady; and, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Illustr. by Ralph Barton. Introduction by Regina Barreca New York: Penguin Books 1998, 243 p
A Mouse is Born. Illustr. of Pallavicini. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday 1951, 214 pp.
No Mother to Guide Her. New York: McGraw -Hill 1961, 157 pp.
Griffith, D. W. / Anita Loos: Intolerance. New York:? , 1955.

Screenplays

San Francisco. A Screenplay. Afterword by Anita Loos. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois UP 1979, 204 pp.
Murfin, Jane / Anita Loos: The Women. In: Twenty Best Film Plays. Edited by John Gassner / Dudley Nichols. New York: Crown, 1943, 1112 pp.

Dramas

The Gay Illiterate. New York: Doubleday, 1944.
Happy Birthday. A Play in Two Acts. New York: S. French 1947, 132 pp.
Gigi. A Comedy in Two Acts Dramatized From the novel by Colette. New York Random House 1952, 169 pp.
Every Girl Needs a Parlor. New York: Viking Press, 1955.
Loos, Anita / John Emerson. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. New York: Century Play 1926.
Loos, Anita / John Emerson: The Whole Town 's Talking. A Farce in Three Acts. New York: Longmans, Green & co. In 1925.
Loos, Anita / John Emerson: The Social Register. New York 1931 [ typescript ].
Canolle, Jean: The King's Mare. A Play in Three Acts. Übers by Anita Loos. London: Evans Bros 1967, 72 pp.

A Girl Like I. New York: Viking Press 1966, 275 pp.
Kiss Hollywood good -by. New York: Viking Press 1974, 213 pp.
Cast of Thousands. New York: Grottet & Dunlap 1977, 280 pp.
The Talmadge Girls. A Memoir. New York: Viking Press 1978, 204 pp.
Fate Keeps on Happening. Adventures of Lorelei Lee and Other Writings. Edited by Ray Pierre Corsini. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984, 293 pp.
Emerson, John / Anita Loos: How to Write Photoplays. New York: James A. McCann 1920, 154 pp.
Emerson, John / Anita Loos: Breaking into the Movies. New York: James A. McCann, 1921, 115 pp.
Aldous Huxley. In: Julian Huxley (ed.), Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963. A Memorial Volume, London-New York 1965, pp. 89-97.
Aldous Huxley in California. In: Harper's, No. 228, May 1964, p 51-55.

Translations into German

The blonde and the gentlemen. Travel Diary of a New York professional beauty. In: The Lady (1925 ) 5 - ( 1926) 11
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The instructive diary of a young lady. With 24 Illustr. v. Ralph Barton. Übers from d Engl v. Gustav Kauder.

Munich: . Dreimasken Publishing 1926 194 p

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The instructive diary of a lady by profession. From the Amerikan. speak. by Lisette Mullère, Christian Ferber. Unabridged ed, [ 1 - 30 thousand ]

Reinbek b. Hamburg:. Rowohlt 1965 118 p [ 1 - 30 thousand ]
1967 [ 2 Ed, 31 - 35 thousand ]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: the instructive diary of a young lady. Translated from English by Gustaf Kauder. Munich: . Piper 1975 134 p
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: the instructive diary of a lady by profession. From the American Lisette Mullère. Zurich: . Diogenes 1987 134 p
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: female, single, young looking millionaire. Dt. by Lisette Mullère. Reinbek. Rowohlt Paperback Publisher 1998 133 p
Brunette - married! With 26 Illustr. [eg Tl in Plate ] by Ralph Barton. Übers from the English by Marie -Therese Morel. Munich: Three masks Publishing 1929 219 p.
Brunette getting married! With 26 Illustrated by Ralph Barton ue Nachw of Ursula von Kardorff. From d Amerikan. by Marie -Therese Morel. Munich: . Rogner and Bernhard, 1975 204 pp.
Gentlemen marry brunette: the instructive diary of a lady by profession. From d Amerikan. by Marie -Therese Morel. Zurich: . Diogenes 1987 130 p

Filmography (selection)

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