Anita Loos

Anita Loos

American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress, and television producer
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Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author. In 1912, she became the first-ever female staff scriptwriter in Hollywood, when D.W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as her 1951 Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.

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Anita Loos was born on Friday, 26 April 1889 in Mount Shasta, Sissons, California. Her full name at birth was Corinne Anita Loos. She was best known as a writer. Loos' country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Tuesday, 18 August 1981 in New York, New York at the age of 92. She is buried at Etna Cemetery, Etna, California. She was 4' 11" (150 cm) tall with a slim build. Her zodiac star sign was Taurus.

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Full name at birth
Corinne Anita Loos
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Claim to fame
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Date of birth
26 April 1889
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Place of birth
Mount Shasta, Sissons, California
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Date of death
18 August 1981
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92 (age at death)
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New York, New York
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Etna Cemetery, Etna, California
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Actress, Novelist, Screenwriter
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[From her 1977 book "Cast of Thousands"[ I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I'm grateful every day that it isn't banned as a drug, that I don't have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there's no need to increase the intake. I can count on its stimulation 365 mornings every year. And thanks to the magic in a cup of coffee, I'm able to plunge into a whole day's cheerful thinking.
  • Started as a writer for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. her first full film screenplay was The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) starring Lillian Gish.
  • Aunt of Mary Loos.
  • Her brother founded the Blue Cross health insurance company.
  • Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
  • Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 511-512. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

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