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Anita Loos

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Screenwriter

Anita Loos was an American screenwriter renowned for her sharp wit and satirical style. She is most famous for her work on the film 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'. Born on April 26, 1889, in Los Angeles, California, she passed away on August 18, 1981.

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“I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to read every month to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month.”

Reading Humorous Individuality Group Think

Book:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

“December 1931 was drawing to a close and Hollywood was aglow with Christmas spirit, undaunted by sizzling sunshine, palm trees, and the dry encircling hills that would never feel the kiss of snow. But the “Know-how” that would transform the Chaplin studio in the frozen Chilkoot Pass could easily achieve a white Christmas. In Wilson’s Rolls-Royce convertible, we drove past Christmas trees heavy with fake snow. An entire estate on Fairfax Avenue had been draped in cotton batting; carolers straight out of Dickens were at its gate, perspiring under mufflers and greatcoats. The street signs on Hollywood Boulevard had been changed to Santa Claus Lane. They drooped with heavy glass icicles. A parade was led by a band blaring out “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” followed by Santa driving a sleigh. But Hollywood granted Santa the extra dimension of a Sweetheart and seated beside him was Clara Bow (or was it Mabel Normand?)”

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.”

Seems Remember Dating Gentleman

Book:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.”

Want Girl Fun Laughing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?”

Age Happened Middle Instance Middle Ages Juliet Pasta Silhouettes

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!”

Solitary Drinkers

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“I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.”

Wells Looks Doe Girl Appearance Boards Yacht

Book:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.”

Order Bored Bores Humanitarianism

Author:Anita Loos

“Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.”

Knows Persons Next Cold Hot Climate California

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“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.”

World Persons Whole Film Left Stars Fame Normal Contrast Left Alone Film Stars

Book:A Mouse is Born

Source: A Mouse is Born

“I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.”

Character Cities Known Defense Boredom Native Mechanism Philadelphia Habitat Dullness Defense Mechanisms

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.”

Ifs Land Produce Hollywood Climate Heyday

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.”

World Night Community Differences Cities Modern Cold Hollywood Hot Rate Equipment Standing Out Adequate Modern Day Hot And Cold

Author:Anita Loos

“The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.”

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.”

Men Seems Today Sex Gentleman

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“One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?”

Thinking World Feels Should Looks Might Age Funny Views Conditions Profound Thoughtful Thinker Gravity Privileged Amusement Gloom

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“A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.”

Sex Bits Effort Creativity Creative Conversation Climate Pleasant

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.”

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.”

Mean Values Girl Changed Morality Eras Naughty Naughty Girl

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.”

Men Girl Thrill

Book:Cast of Thousands

Source: Cast of Thousands

“...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.”

World Past Violence Products Hollywood Movie Flavor Once Upon A Time Hyperbole

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.”

Jobs Wife Team Couple Labor Males Ease Male Dominance

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.”

People World Firsts Film Young Situation Ambition Jokes Hollywood Dialogue Get Away Ads Sole Gags

Author:Anita Loos

“Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.”

Ifs Believe Children Reason Today Past Wish Universal Tales Fairy Cracks Fairy Tale

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“I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.”

Writing Age Father Born Acting West Theatre All Time More Money Coast West Coast

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“I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.”

Thinking Writing Important Done Cases Written Directors Scripts Visuals Really Great Written Word

Author:Anita Loos

“Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.”

Writing Sometimes Acting Talent Scene

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“I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Cutting Seeing Horse Orange Clockwork Brando

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“Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.”

Men Needs Sex Failing Weak Opposites Gentleman Reassurance Adulation

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”

Memories Ink Indelible

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“Gentlemen prefer blondes.”

Gentleman Classic Blonde Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”

Shows Business Therapy Remorse Show Business

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

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“The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.”

Years Would Be America Life Is All Things Relation Billions Fake Charm Manufacturing Headings Grim Public Relations American Life

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.”

Looks Gentleman Blonde Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.”

Thinking Two Type Crowds Temperament

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“A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”

Feels May Hands Lasts Forever Kissing Very Good Diamond Bracelet Sapphires Diamond In The Rough Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.”

Thinking Would Be Faces Used Careers Destiny Screens Fabulous Thrilling Pillow Busters

Book:Cast of Thousands

Source: Cast of Thousands

“I've always loved high style in low company.”

Company Style Lows Gowns Sawdust Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.”

Thinking Remember Time Girl Good Times Jewelry

Author:Anita Loos

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Men Should Whole Women Justice Quiet Diversity Social Justice Boxes Libertarian Ruins Women Empowerment Soap Brighter Furious Wise Women Racket Proclaiming Anti Feminist Soapbox

Author:Anita Loos

“Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.”

Pleasure Paid Insipid

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“Fate keeps on happening.”

Destiny Fate Happenings

Book:Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Source: Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.”

Thinking Girl Brain Ought Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author:Anita Loos

“On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.”

People Religion Picks Planes Memorable Stagecoaches

Author:Anita Loos

“That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.”

People Ifs Art Form Nations Sex Taxes Concern Dirty Obsessed Jail Popularity Earning Inflation Earning A Living

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.”

Thinking Want Long Important Seems Goal Money Rich Serious Appreciation Worthwhile Defects Become Rich Thinking Of Someone

Author:Anita Loos

“If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.”

People Ifs May Two Sex Change Kissing Clothes Hollywood Opposites Seven Old Fashioned

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“There's nothing colder than chemistry.”

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.”

Way Certain Fun Nations Sex Race Adults Obsession France Having Fun Paris Logical Frenchmen

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.”

Company Style Lows Evening Best Times Gowns Sawdust Evening Gowns

Author:Anita Loos

About the Author

Born: April 26, 1889
Died: August 18, 1981
Known for: Screenwriter
Quotes: 57

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