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Anita Loos 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.

✵ 26. April 1889 – 18. August 1981   •   Other names Anita Loosová
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Famous Anita Loos Quotes

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”

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

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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.”

Anita Loos book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, March 22nd http://books.google.com/books?id=FD29lEu97A8C&q=%22I+always+say+that+a+girl+never+really+looks+as+well+as+she+does+on+board+a+steamship+or+even+a+yacht%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage (1925)

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