Reminiscences of Anita Loos : oral history, 1959.

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Reminiscences of Anita Loos : oral history, 1959.

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Childhood; beginnings as a writer; meeting with and working for D.W. Griffith; Douglas Fairbanks; John Emerson; "His Picture in the Papers"; working for Douglas Fairbanks, Irving Thalberg; Robert Hopkins, Jean Harlow; writing in Hollywood; effect of censorship.

Transcript: 37 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Loos, Anita, 1893-1981

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Anita Loos, screenwriter and novelist, was born on April 26, 1893, in Sisson, CA, the daughter of R. Beers and Minnie Ellen Loos. Miss Loos wrote the subtitles for D. W. Griffith's film, Intolerance, in 1916. Her best known work is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She died on August 18, 1981, at the age of 93. From the guide to the Anita Loos papers, 1917-1981, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) American author and screenwriter. From the descrip...