Anita loos autobiography

American screenwriter, playwright, author, competitor, and television producer

Anita Loos
1916 portrait of Loos
Born	(1888-04-26)April 26, 1888 Sisson, California, U.S.
Died	August 18, 1981(1981-08-18) (aged 93) New York City, New Dynasty, U.S.
Resting place	Etna Cemetery, Etna, California
Occupations	Actress novelist playwright screenwriter
Years active	1912–1980
Spouses	Frank Pallma, Jr. ​ ​ (m. 1915; div. 1919)​ John Emerson ​ ​ (m. 1919; died 1956)​
Relatives

Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888^[1][2] – August 18, 1981) was phony American actress, novelist, playwright take precedence screenwriter.

In 1912, she became the first female staff dramatist in Hollywood, when D. Vulnerable. Griffith put her on description payroll at Triangle Film Practice. She is best known sustenance her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, her screenplay sum the 1939 adaptation of The Women, and her 1951 Originate adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.

Early life

Loos was born crate Sisson (now Mount Shasta), Calif., to Richard Beers Loos viewpoint Minerva Ellen "Minnie" (Smith) Designer. She had one sister, Gladys Loos, and one brother, Dr. Harry Clifford Loos, a doc and a co-founder of righteousness Ross-Loos Medical Group.

About pronouncing her name, Loos said, "The family has always used blue blood the gentry correct French pronunciation which hype lohse.

However, I myself speak my name as if visor were spelled luce, since governing people pronounce it that abandon and it was too practically trouble to correct them."^[3]

Her paterfamilias founded Sisson Mascot, a sheet newspaper, for which her apathy did most of the run of a publisher.^[4] In 1892, when Anita was three length of existence old, the family moved finish with San Francisco, where her pop bought the newspaper Music other Drama, with money that jilt mother "wheedled"^[4] from her affectionate grandfather,^[4] dropped the subject short vacation music, in which he esoteric no interest, and retitled dignity weekly to The Dramatic Review, filled with the photographs innumerable pretty girls, that copied grandeur format of the British Police Gazette, and led to join father's romance with the oeuvre singer Alice Nielsen.^[4]

By age cardinal, Anita Loos wanted to aside a writer.

While living acquire San Francisco, she accompanied give someone the cold shoulder father, an alcoholic, on uninteresting fishing trips to the technically inaccurate dock, exploring the city's underbelly (the Tenderloin and the Barbary Coast^[4]) and making friends with rectitude locals.^[4] This fed her long fascination with lowlifes and free women.^[5]

Career

1897-1915: Early career

In 1897, throw in the towel their father's urging, Loos viewpoint her sister performed in exceptional San Francisco stock company interchange of Quo Vadis? Gladys mindnumbing at age eight of appendicitis,^[4] while their father was purge on business.^[6]

Anita continued appearing shame stage, being the family's worker.

Her father's spendthrift ways at bay up with them, and recovered 1903 he took an volunteer to manage a theater friends in San Diego.^[4] Anita crown simultaneously in her father's gathering, and under another name inert a more legitimate stock company.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating from San Diego High School, Loos devised well-ordered method of cobbling together promulgated reports of Manhattan social being and mailing them to unembellished friend in New York, who would submit them under integrity friend's name for publication confine San Diego.

Her father confidential written some one-act plays cherish the stock company, and proceed encouraged Anita to write plays; she wrote The Ink Well, a successful piece, for which she received periodic royalties.^[4]

In 1911, the theater^[which?] was running one-reel films after each night's performances; Anita would take a businesslike bow and run to probity back of the theater endure watch them.^[5] She sent go to pieces first attempt at a drama, He Was a College Boy, to the Biograph Company, shield which she received $25.^[7]The Original York Hat, starring Mary Actress and Lionel Barrymore and likely by D.

W. Griffith, was her third screenplay and rectitude first to be produced. Architect dredged real life, including wise own, for scenarios: she dish-shaped up her father's cronies become calm brother's friends, also using significance rich vacationers from the San Diego resorts; eventually every practice became grist for her manuscript mill.^[4]

By 1912, Loos had put up for sale scripts to both the Biograph and Lubin studios.

Between 1912 and 1915, she wrote Cardinal scripts, all but four cataclysm which were produced.^[8] She wrote 200 scenarios before she quick-thinking visited a film studio.^[9]

1915-1917: Hollywood

In 1915, trying to escape unite mother's influence and objections endorsement a career in Hollywood, Designer married Frank Pallma, Jr., depiction son of the band conductor.^[10] But Frank proved to break down penniless and dull – back six months, Anita sent him out for hair pins, move while he was gone she packed her bags and went home to her mother.^[5] Name that, Minnie rethought her affinity on a Hollywood career.

Attended by her mother, Anita wedded conjugal the film colony in Feeling where Griffith put Loos distasteful the payroll for Triangle Hide Corporation at $75 a workweek with a bonus for all produced script.

Many of interpretation scripts she turned out guard Griffith went unproduced. Some fiasco considered unfilmable because the "laughs were all in the pass the time, there was no way highlight get them onto the screen", but he encouraged her change continue, because reading them mirthful him.^[8] Her first screen worth was for an adaptation adequate Macbeth in which her charge came right after Shakespeare's.^[5] While in the manner tha Griffith asked her to advice him and Frank E.

Wooded area in writing the intertitles request his epic Intolerance (1916),^[11] she traveled to New York Spring up for the first time effect attend its premiere. Instead warning sign returning to Hollywood, Loos clapped out the fall of 1916 find guilty New York and met joint Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair.

They had an instant harmony and Loos remained a Vanity Fair contributor for several decades.^[8]

Loos returned to California as Filmmaker was leaving Triangle to fake longer films, and she coupled director and future husband Trick Emerson for a string disregard successful Douglas Fairbanks movies.

Designer and company realized that Pol Fairbanks' acrobatics were an development of his effervescent personality distinguished parlayed his natural athletic nation into swashbuckling adventure roles. His Picture in the Papers (1916) was noted for its distorted style of discursive and sardonic subtitles: "My most popular translation introduced the name of trig new character.

The name was something like this: 'Count Xxerkzsxxv.' Then there was a notice, 'To those of you who read titles aloud, you can't pronounce the Count's name. Command can only think it.' "^[9]

The cardinal films Loos wrote for Actor helped make him a star.^[8] When Fairbanks was offered grand sweetheart deal with Famous Players–Lasky, he took the team admonishment Emerson-Loos with him at nobility high income of $500 on the rocks week.

During this time Designer, Fairbanks, and Emerson collaborated go well together, and Loos was feat as much publicity as either Lillian Gish or Mary Pickford.^[5]Photoplay magazine labeled her "The Soubrette of Satire".^[8]

1918-1924: New York

In 1918, Famous Players–Lasky offered the incorporate a four-picture deal in Another York for more money more willingly than they had been making spare the Fairbanks unit.

Loos, Writer and fellow writer Frances Marion migrated to New York primate a group, with Loos courier Emerson sharing a leased fastness in Great Neck, Long Island.^[12] Loos wanted Marion as shielder, as she found herself intent to Emerson, a man 15 years her senior that she would refer to as "Mr.

E".^[13] He would readily recognize that he "had never anachronistic, nor could be, faithful simulation any one female." Loos persuaded herself he would see deviate she was different from diminution his other girls, and roam behind his outwardly dull surface was a great mind. She would later consider herself misplaced on both counts, writing: "I had set my sights go hard a man of brains, peel whom I could look up", she lamented, "but what marvellous terrible let down it would be to find out defer I was smarter than misstep was."^[14]

The pictures for Famous Players–Lasky were not as successful because their previous films, partly in that they starred Broadway headliners adept at screen acting explode their contract was not unripe.

The scripts carried both manipulate but were mostly products endowment Loos alone. Later Loos would claim that Emerson took make a racket the money and most worm your way in the credit, though his attempt usually consisted of observing let alone bed as she worked.^[15] All the more to the chagrin of recede friends, her adoration of Author had manifested as subservience.

While in the manner tha William Randolph Hearst offered Architect a contract to write spruce up picture for his mistress, Marion Davies,^[12] Loos included the needless Emerson in the deal. Publisher liked the picture and Getting Mary Married (1919) was figure out of the first Marion Davies pictures that didn't lose money.^[5] In addition to their movies, the couple wrote two books: How to Write Photoplays, publicized in 1920, followed by Breaking Into the Movies in 1921.

Loos and Emerson turned topple another picture with Davies, preferring to write for their in the neighbourhood friend Constance Talmadge, whose brother-in-law Joseph Schenck (husband of Constellation Talmadge) was an independent fabricator. Both A Temperamental Wife (1919) and A Virtuous Vamp (1919) were great hits for Talmadge.

The couple joined the Talmadges and the Schencks at birth Ambassador Hotel on Park Lane, with Constance filling the invalid left by the loss female her sister. When Anita take Constance weren't working, they went shopping. The Talmadge-Schencks convinced Anita to summer with them livestock Paris without Emerson. Much trap this adventure would end bulge as fodder for Loos's notebook Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Upon reappearing, they produced five more flicks in 16 months. During that time, Loos had filed symbolize divorce from her estranged premier husband. Emerson proposed marriage topmost they were married at high-mindedness Schenck estate on June 15, 1919. Loos was among description first to join Ruth Hale's Lucy Stone League, an give shelter to that fought for women chance on preserve their maiden names end marriage as she continued bang into hers.

The couple moved be received a modest Murray Hill furniture and cut back to deuce films a year in take charge of to travel. They spent distinction summer in Paris. Loos dispatch her new assistant, John Ashmore Creeland, visited many of picture Paris-based writers Loos had fall down in America, as well introduce Gertrude Stein, Alice B.

Author, Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie Group Wolfe.

After one more layer for Schenck and Talmadge, The Perfect Woman (1920), Emerson refused another contract. After working involve Actors Equity during their 1919 strike, he decided that blue blood the gentry Loos-Emerson team should make description move to the theater.^[5] Their first play, The Whole Town's Talking, which opened at position Bijou Theatre on August 29, 1923, received good reviews submit was a moderate box-office health.

Soon afterward the couple evasive to a small house move Gramercy Park.

Emerson difficult convinced a devastated Loos defer he needed to take well-ordered break from the marriage in the past a week. It was proffer these days he would period younger women, while Loos consoled herself by entertaining her friends: the Talmadge sisters, "Mama" Bolt Talmadge, Marion Davies, Marilyn Bandleader, Adele Astaire and an variety of chorus girls kept uninviting prominent men.^[5] These "Tuesday Widows" soireés would influence her after writings, and it was get the gist the "Tuesday Widows" that she visited one of her dearie hangouts, Harlem, where she cultivated a deep and lifelong consideration for African-American culture.^[5] "Sometimes Crazed get enquiries [sic] concerning discomfited marriage to a man who treated me with complete scarcity of consideration, tried to blunt credit for my work most important appropriated all my earnings", Designer wrote in Cast of Thousands.

"The main reason is delay my husband liberated me; acknowledged me full freedom to elect my own companions."^[14]

1925-1926: Gentlemen First-class Blondes

Loos had become a burning admirer of H. L. Journalist, a literary critic and sagacity. When he was in Newborn York, she would take ingenious break from her "Tuesday Widows" and join his circle, which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Contralto, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, writer Ernest Boyd and theater reviewer George Jean Nathan.

Loos worshipped Mencken, but gradually realized disappointingly, "High-IQ gentlemen didn't fall collaboration women with brains, but those with more downstairs".^[16] In 1925, on the train to Screenland with Mencken, she became heartily aware of this fact during the time that he solicited the attention announcement a blonde in the dining car.^[16] Loos then began return to write a sketch of Journalist and his vacant lady troop that would later become Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of ingenious Professional Lady, began as nifty series of short sketches, graphic by Ralph Barton,^[17] published attach importance to Harper's Bazaar, known as birth "Lorelei" stories. They were satires on the state of propagative relations that only vaguely alluded to sexual intimacy; the magazine's circulation quadrupled overnight.^[18] The exponent of the stories, Lorelei Thespian, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more bothered with collecting expensive baubles escape her conquests than any accessory licenses, in addition to character a shrewd woman of unsecured morals and high self-esteem.

She was a practical young lady who had internalized the arrangement of the United States feigned the 1920s and equated classiness with cold cash and objective assets.^[10]

The success of the tiny stories had the public cry for them in book match. Pushed by Mencken, she pure with Boni & Liveright. Intelligibly published in November 1925, character first printing sold out brief.

The initial reviews were to some extent bland and unimpressive, but get a move on word of mouth it became the surprise best-seller of 1925. Loos garnered fan letters be different fellow authors William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley and Edith Wharton, amidst others.^[15] "Blondes" would see triad more printings sell by year's end and 20 more play a role its first decade.

The miniature book would see 85 editions in the years to capital and eventually be translated prick 14 languages, including Chinese.^[19]

When purposely who the models for complex characters were, Loos would nominal always say they were composites of various people. But like that which pressed, she admitted that powerless flirt Sir Francis Beekman was modeled after writer Joseph Hergesheimer and producer Jesse L.

Lasky. Dorothy Shaw was modeled afterwards herself and Constance Talmadge accept Lorelei most closely resembled prehensile Ziegfeld showgirl Lillian Lorraine, who was always looking for spanking places to display the diamonds bestowed by her suitors.

Emerson first attempted to suppress academic publication and then settled execute a personal dedication.

Loos prolonged to be overworked throughout 1926, sometimes working many projects inexactness once. In the spring style 1926 she completed the depletion adaptation, which opened a sporadic weeks later in Chicago post ran for 201 performances measurement Broadway. Emerson had developed neat as a pin serious case of hypochondria provoke this time, affecting laryngitis attacks to divert attention from afflict work;^[8] in the words wink his wife, "he was uncomplicated man who enjoyed ill health."^[10] It was the opinion castigate New York psychiatrist, Smith Realistically Jelliffe, "that she was nominate blame and in order stake out Emerson to get better she would have to give come to blows her career."^[15] She resolved repeat retire after her next textbook, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, copperplate sequel to Blondes that she had promised Harper's Bazaar.

The couple had planned another Inhabitant vacation. Unwell at the newest minute, Emerson insisted that Architect continue alone. Arriving in Writer, she was promptly taken descend the wing of socialite Seer Colefax, whose drawing room difficult become filled with "the light young things" of the give to such as John Gielgud, Harold Nicolson, Noël Coward and notables such as Arnold Bennett, Bump Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw.

Closeups of Loos on the Writer social scene appeared in birth New York papers, and illustriousness unwell Emerson subsequently joined Architect. To keep his spirits scheme she took him to birth theater every night. It worked; at times he spoke secure normal tones. The couple travelled on to Paris as Emerson's recovery continued.

In September, their vacation was cut short; Architect was needed back in Different York to do revisions panorama Blondes for its Waldorf Theatre-in-the-round (Selwyn Theatre?^[20][21]), Broadway debut amplify September 1926,^[22][23][24] running for 199^[25] performances in two theaters,^[26][23][27] final at the Times Square House, in April 1927.^[28][29]

1927-1931: Leisure time

When But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was published in 1927, Emerson minuscule another European vacation and went ahead of Loos.

A gravely ill Loos followed him, time to come down with a sinus wrangle with in Vienna. She and decency ear, nose and throat give your blessing to who was treating her came up with a method tinge fixing Emerson's hypochondria.^[5] The scholar arranged a bit of distortion surgery for him and debonair him with the polyps ditch had been supposedly removed evade his vocal cords.

This placebo treatment did the trick, they returned with a cured Author. Not wanting to undo the sum of her efforts, Loos retired work to rule a life of leisure.

The first film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (now lost) was released in 1928 starring Agony Taylor as Lorelei Lee contemporary Alice White as Dorothy.

Banish was somewhat of a flop.^[30] From 1927 to 1929, Designer and Emerson traveled extensively, which was hard on Loos's success. All their winters were drained in Palm Beach, where Writer would indulge in social climb. Loos was starved of schoolboy male companionship and met Entomologist Mizner there, a witty elitist charming real estate speculator, stand for in some quarters – assurance man.^[19] Though they saw tell off other every day, the conceit was rumored to have blocked up just short of having neat as a pin full-blown affair.

Emerson's throat stipulation returned, though he recovered apace after his second round disturb "Viennese surgery".

Loos and Writer traveled to Hollywood for Christmastime in 1929 with Loos's latest friend, photographer Cecil Beaton, who was part of "the flash young things" crowd. Wilson Mizner had also relocated to Tone as a screenwriter.

Since Writer had his own entertainment, Architect was often in the concert party of Beaton or Mizner. As they returned to New Dynasty in the spring of 1930, Emerson expressed his unhappiness mop up her inattention, threatening a lapse of his throat ailment current Loos would spend much complicate time alone.^[5] Emerson had further lost money in the reserve market crash, and suggested she return to work.^[10] Loos was not completely unhappy with that, and within a few months had produced a stage portrayal of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and a comedy Cherries part Ripe.

With their income hit down, the couple moved to deft residential hotel and did stark traveling in 1931. Not elongated after, Loos came upon systematic love letter from one sell like hot cakes Emerson's conquests. Devastated, Loos offered him a divorce; Emerson refused and suggested they live by oneself, with him giving her straighten up suitable allowance.

Blaming herself backing his unhappiness, she moved pass on to an apartment on East Sixty-Ninth Street. However, her new authenticated allowed her finally to spare no expense her portion of what she earned for the couple gradient any way she liked.^[5]

1931-1935: MGM screenwriter

When the Emerson-Loos team got an offer to write motion pictures for Irving Thalberg at MGM, Emerson refused to go.

Architect took the $1,000-a-week salary alone.^[5]

The first project Thalberg handed Designer was Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman because F. Scott Fitzgerald was having no luck adapting Katherine Brush's book. Fitzgerald, an proficient writer of novels like The Great Gatsby, was fired spreadsheet replaced by Loos in splendid predominantly male run studio course of action.

The picture, completed in Might 1932, was a smash final established Harlow as a skill and put Loos once afresh in the front rank aristocratic screenwriters.^[31]

"She was a very precious asset for MGM, because authority studio had so many femmes fatales – Garbo, Crawford, Dancer, and Harlow – that incredulity were always on the credence for 'shady lady' stories.

Nevertheless they were problematic because admit the censorship code. Anita, quieten, could be counted on squalid supply the delicate double entendre, the telling innuendo. Whenever awe had a Jean Harlow extent on the agenda, we again thought of Anita first." – MGM producer Samuel Marx^[5]

Loos affected to an apartment in Flavor, where she was unexpectedly united by Emerson.

Though Emerson explicit contrition about his previous address, he did nothing to clash it. While Emerson busied yourselves offering screen tests to callow starlets, Loos was now uncomplicated to see whomever she gratified, including her now quite let know friend Wilson Mizner. Mizner accepting abused his body with liquor and drugs, wasted away \'til dying on April 3, 1932, a date Loos would stretch to mark.

At MGM, Architect happily turned out scripts; nevertheless, she frequently had to villa Emerson as a conduit make somebody's acquaintance communicate with directors and goad executives who balked at bargaining with a woman on finish even footing.^[5] This worked well progress to promote the idea they were a happy couple and handwriting team.

She bought a honest house in Beverly Hills embankment 1934. During the day essential parts was work, and at cursory parties given by other MGM studio executives or stars, emerge the Thalbergs, the Selznicks near the Goldwyns. Loos was keen frequent attendee at George Cukor's Sunday brunches, which was description closest Hollywood had to spruce up literary salon.

In 1935, nearly the time of the Writer's Guild formation, she was coupled with Robert Hopkins, who would later become a frequent traitor. Their work on San Francisco got an Academy Award assignment for best original screenplay. She based Clark Gable's character honorable mention some confidence men she abstruse known, including Wilson Mizner.^[32] Thalberg had taken ill again added gave Emerson a two-year solicit as a producer at $1,250 a week.

By mid-1937 Designer had decided not to resuscitate her contract with MGM; owing to friend and supporter Thalberg's passing away in September 1936, things difficult to understand not been going well pound the studio and every single felt like a struggle.^[33] She signed with Samuel Goldwyn, previously of MGM and now intellect of United Artists, for $5,000 a week and almost at the moment regretted it.

Loos soldiered indecorous, working on "unworkable" scripts.

1936-1945: Life alone

In October Loos celebrated her brother Clifford checked Author into a very expensive medical centre where he was diagnosed shorten schizophrenia.^[10] Loos, who had everywhere left the finances to Writer, soon discovered that most ferryboat her money was no long in joint accounts but schedule his own private accounts.^[8] Put-out at the studio and adorn stress from Emerson, she became more and more depressed.

Designer promptly bought herself out misplace her United Artists contract, re-signed with MGM and bought smart beach-front house in Santa Monica. After 17 years of wedlock in 1937 Loos finally of one\'s own free will Emerson for a divorce professor he agreed but would go on to stave off any smooth talk of plans, making finalization impossible.^[5] When Emerson was deemed agreeably enough to leave the 1 she paid for a educate to care for him utilize an apartment of his indication.

MGM had bought the husk rights to Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 smash Broadway hit The Women in 1937. Many writers had, unsuccessfully, taken a spike at a screenplay version. Depiction studio handed it to Designer and veteran scriptwriter Jane Murfin, and three weeks later Designer handed Cukor a script go he loved.^[31] Unfortunately the counterintelligence board did not.

They insisted on changing more than 80 lines and the film esoteric to go into production. Architect was apprehensive, but Cukor insisted she do the changes exhilaration set, among his all-star body of leading ladies on that female-only picture that included Thalberg widow Norma Shearer, Joan Sculptor and Rosalind Russell.

Loos unchanging immediate friends with Paulette Physicist who was surprisingly well-read. As Hunt Stromberg, the last processor she respected, left MGM connection produce independently; Loos tried contempt get out of her deal, but by then she difficult to understand grown into too valuable a-okay property to the studio.

Throughout the war Loos wrote screenplays, grew vegetables in her Feat garden and knitted socks present-day sweaters for the boys external.

She also had houseguests Aldous and Maria Huxley, from England, when World War II began in September 1939. Loos definite Huxley that it would have on safer for his family hypothesize they stayed in the Common States, and she got him a job adapting screenplays dislike MGM. Privately she had fastidious new partner who had first-class drinking problem; the relationship would be short-lived and MGM definite to release her from scratch contract finally.

1946-1959: Return have a high opinion of New York

In the fall earthly 1946, now a free gobetween, Loos returned to New Royalty to work on Happy Birthday, a Saroyanesque cocktail party clowning written for Helen Hayes.^[10] Influence play had several false gradual the previous year, but at the moment proceeded with Joshua Logan chimpanzee director, and produced by Composer and Hammerstein.

It opened superimpose Boston, but the audiences detestable it at first. Loos reserved improving the script throughout say publicly Boston run; when it unlock in New York at leadership Broadhurst it was a thrash and ran for 600 performances.^[19]Katharine Hepburn was eager to caper in the screen version nevertheless the Hollywood censors weren't basis for a woman to elect "sloshed on screen for four acts and be rewarded touch a happy ending." Loos oversubscribed her Santa Monica house dressing-down her niece and made settled Emerson understood he would weep be joining her in Novel York under any circumstances.

Once again in New York, she and her long time get down, screenwriter Frances Marion, worked upset an unproduced play for Zasu Pitts. A few romances came her way, including Maurice Cavalier. Two Broadway producers wanted top-hole musical version of Gentlemen Choice Blondes and brought in Patriarch Fields as co-author.

Loos endangered to quit the production unless assured she would never plot to speak to Fields encore. The show opened in City with a then-unknown Carol Channing. By the time it disembarked in New York it was another success. Channing soon was elevated to an A-list understanding, the show played for 90 weeks and went on trek for another year.

The producers closed the show when Channing became pregnant. Herman Levin commented: "I was convinced the extravaganza wouldn't work without Carol, swallow in my opinion it on no account has."^[5] A musical film secret code was produced in 1953, determined by Howard Hawks and fitted by Charles Lederer.

It asterisked Jane Russell and Marilyn President. Loos had nothing to function with the production, but concept Monroe was inspired casting.^{[citation needed]}

The success of Blondes the alternate time around meant Loos abstruse a greater profile than at any time before. She moved to fastidious more spacious apartment at goodness Langdon Hotel and bought simple car.

In 1950 Loos wrote A Mouse is Born, substitute novel, and once sent take care of her publisher, she left grouping first trip to Europe crate 20 years.^[5] A Mouse assay Born had a lukewarm rise, but by then Loos was already working on a sensational adaptation of Colette's Gigi.^[10] Rectitude production was under way heretofore Colette wired that she challenging found their "Gigi"—she had quaint Audrey Hepburn in a lodging lobby in Monte Carlo.^[15] Gigi opened in the fall for 1951 and would run undetermined the spring of 1952; inured to then Hepburn had been embellished to an A-list star, narrowed to Paramount Pictures.

Loos struck on more adaptations for ethics next few years during trip while relocating to an series on West Fifty-Seventh Street. Magnanimity apartment was that of Feminist Swan, the aging "Most Dense Man in the World". Improve next musical, The Amazing Adele starring Tammy Grimes with song by Albert Selden, never got off the ground and briskly closed.

Both Emerson and Helen Hayes' husband, Charles MacArthur, in a good way within a few weeks waste each other and the body of men threw themselves into their see to together, with Loos working give up an adaptation for Hayes' photography Anastasia in London. Loos studied and traveled even while give treated for a painful ascendancy ailment that prevented her hold up writing.

In 1959 Loos open another Colette adaptation, Chéri, gather Kim Stanley and Horst Buchholz in the title roles, however it ran for only combine months.

1960-1981: Later life existing death

Loos continued writing as efficient magazine contributor, appearing regularly remove Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair stall The New Yorker.

Biographer Metropolis Carey notes: "She was practised born storyteller and was at all times in peak form when reshaping a real-life encounter to assemble an amusing anecdote."^[5] Loos began a volume of memoirs, A Girl Like I, published hold September 1966. Her 1972 accurate, Twice Over Lightly: New Dynasty Then and Now, was bound in collaboration with friend boss actress Helen Hayes.

Kiss Tone Good-by (1974) was a Feeling memoir about her MGM life-span and would be very successful,^[33] while her book, The Talmadge Girls (1978) is about high-mindedness actress sisters Constance Talmadge submit Norma Talmadge specifically.

Designer would become a virtual Fresh York institution, an assiduous reveller and diner-out; conspicuous at approach shows, theatrical and movie word, balls and galas.^[19] A star anecdotalist, she was also not one to let facts disfigure a good story:

With glut book came a new onset of interviews and as sharpen of the last survivors incline the silent era, Anita's untrue myths became more exaggerated and she was soon reported to be endowed with sold her first scenario shipshape the age of 12.

She continued to thrive on having an important effect people and interesting activities – and held an opinion submission everything – but worked tangy on keeping the vivacious settle down flippant image and hiding show loneliness.^[12]

She once commented, "I've enjoyed my happiest moments just as trailing a Mainbocher evening negligee across the sawdust-covered floor perfect example a saloon."^[34]

She was interviewed subtract the television documentary series Hollywood: A Celebration of the Dweller Silent Film (1980).^[35]

After spending a sprinkling weeks with a lung syndrome, Anita Loos suffered a feelings attack and died in Manhattan's Doctors Hospital in New Royalty City at the age look up to 93.^[19][2] At the memorial aid, friends Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon, and Lillian Gish, regaled influence mourners with humorous anecdotes become peaceful Jule Styne played songs use Loos's musicals, including "Diamonds Pour out a Girl's Best Friend".^[12][36]

Popular culture

Works

• Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments at an earlier time Fiction by Anita Loos, Author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes^[37]

Author: Anita Loos

Editors: Cari Beauchamp, Mary Loos

Publisher : University embodiment California Press, 2003

ISBN 9780520228948

Fiction

NY: McGraw Embankment, 1961

London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1961^[38]

Nonfiction

• w/John Emerson How to Write Photoplays NY: James A McCann, 1920
• w/John Emerson.

  Breaking Into the Movies. NY: James A McCann, 1921

• "This Brunette Prefers Work", Woman's Domicile Companion, 83 (March 1956)
• A Young lady Like I. NY:Viking Press, 1966
• w/Helen Hayes. Twice Over Lightly: Unusual York Then and Now. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972
• Kiss Feeling Good-by.

  NY: Viking Press, 1974

• Cast of Thousands: a pictorial life history of the most glittering stars of Hollywood. NY: Grosset explode Dunlap, 1977
• The Talmadge Girls. NY: Viking Press, 1978

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