Anita Loos Biography

Fast Facts

• Sold her first film script to Biograph in 1911 and her second, the D․ W․ Griffith directed "The New York Hat," in 1912
• Became what was perhaps the industry's first "staff writer" when D․W․ Griffith put her on the payroll at the Triangle Film Corporation to write scripts
• Is credited with elevating the intertitles used in silent films to an art form and for advancing the careers of actors like Douglas Fairbanks, Sr․ and the Talmadge sisters
• Best known as a screenwriter and author who wrote the novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes․"
• Wrote the memoir "A Girl Like I" as well as the books "Kiss Hollywood Good-by" and "A Cast of Thousands․"
• Appeared on screen in the short film "Camille" in 1926 and the TV series "Footlights Theater" in 1953
• Wrote a biography on the Talmadge sisters, with whom she had worked on several films, in 1978 when she thought they had been forgotten about