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Anita Loos Biography

Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She wrote film scripts from 1912, and became arguably the first-ever staff scriptwriter, when D.W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation. She went on to write many of the Douglas Fairbanks films, as well as the stage adaptation of Colette’s Gigi.

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Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Blonde, Blondes, Classic, Gentleman, Gentlemen, Prefer

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Boat, Europe, France, Tourism, Travel

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.

America, Charm, Fake, Public, Spend, Years

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.

Brighter, Diversity, Justice, Kept, Racket, Women

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

Kissing, Know, Making Love, Man, Men, Satisfactory

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, Defense, Known, Mechanism, Philadelphia

So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

Came, Girl, Paris, Ritz, Thinking

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Indelible, Ink, Memories, Memory

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.

Couple, Generally, Job, Jobs, Male, Team

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.

Ambition, Hollywood, People, World, Young

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Delightful, Home, Running, Think, Thinking, Traveling

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

Cool, Crowds, Dorothy, Frequently, Thinking, Two

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.

Audible, Done, Important, Think, Thinking, Writing

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

Order, Bored, Bores, Tallulah

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

Girl, Fun, Laughing, Time, Laugh

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

Actually, Climate, Heyday, Hollywood, Land, Produce

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

Elinor, Glyn, Hollywood, Ifs, Invent

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.

Across, Company, Gowns, Low, Sawdust, Style

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Drinker, Drinkers, Solitary, Truth

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Business, Remorse, Show, Shows, Therapy

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