Anita Loos
Birth Name:
Corinne Anita Loos
Birth Place:
Mount Shasta, Sissons, California, United States
Profession
Writer, Producer, Actress
Fast Facts
- 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
- Sold her first film script to Biograph in 1911 and her second, the D․ W․ Griffith directed "The New York Hat," in 1912
- Best known as a screenwriter and author who wrote the novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes․"
- 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
- 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