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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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Famous Anita Loos Quotes

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

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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.”

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Author:Anita Loos

“...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.”

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.”

Ifs Hollywood

Author:Anita Loos

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

Kiss Hollywood good-byRelated source material

Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writingsRelated source material

Gentlemen Prefer BlondesRelated source material

Cast of ThousandsRelated source material

A Mouse is BornRelated source material

Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer BlondesRelated source material

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