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Anita Loos Rediscovered

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520228944
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Anita Loos Rediscovered written by Anita Loos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I adored Anita, as did the entire fashion and literary world. She was four feet nine inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic."—Carol Channing "This book celebrates a character as memorable as any Anita Loos created in her writing. She was an indomitable, wise-cracking prodigy who not only helped create Hollywood, but managed to survive it."—John Sayles "If we can't have the wonderful Anita Loos-smart, witty, literate and fun- writing today's Hollywood movies, at least we can get reacquainted with her and her work through this delightful book. Filled with previously unpublished material, it shows that while gentlemen may have preferred blondes, everyone else in town wisely preferred the irresistible Ms. Loos."—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times "This is a wonderful book about a talented, fascinating, and groundbreaking woman. Her life epitomizes a certain era in show business and describes a Hollywood in which few women were allowed to rise to the top. Anita Loos did and we were all the beneficiaries. I loved the book!"—Peter Duchin "Not only is it valuable to have these delightful Anita Loos pieces, but the biographical chapters are fascinating too."—Kevin Brownlow, author of David Lean: A Biography

Anita Loos Rediscovered

Author : Loos/Beauchamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520352810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Anita Loos Rediscovered written by Loos/Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent. Beginning in 1912 with the stories she submitted from her San Diego home (some made into films by D. W. Griffith), through her collaboration with Colette on the play Gigi, Anita Loos wrote almost every day for the screen, stage, books, or magazines. Film scripts include San Francisco, The Women, and Red-Headed Woman. The list of stars for whom she created unforgettable roles includes Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, and Carol Channing. This collection has been selected by Anita's niece and close friend, the best-selling author Mary Anita Loos, together with the acclaimed film historian Cari Beauchamp. Their essays are laced throughout the volume, introducing each section and giving previously untold insights and behind-the-scenes stories about Anita-her life, her friendships, and her times.

Anita Loos

Author : Gary Carey
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Anita Loos written by Gary Carey and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertwines the stories of rock star and vampire Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha, mother of all vampires, who dreams of godhood.

Anita Loos Rediscovered

Author : Mary Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422351598
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Anita Loos Rediscovered written by Mary Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected & prolific screenwriters. This collection of previously unpub. film treatments, short stories, & one-act plays spans 50 years of her creative writing. Beginning in 1912 with the stories she sent to D.W. Griffith, through her collaboration years later with Colette on the play Gigi,Ó Anita Loos wrote almost every day for the screen or stage, or for book or mag. pub. She created unforgettable roles for Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, & Carol Channing. Essays by Mary Anita Loos & Cari Beauchamp are laced throughout the vol., providing fascinating intro. to Anita's writings & offering insights & behind-the-scenes stories about Anita -- her life, her friendships, & her times. Illus.

When Women Wrote Hollywood

Author : Rosanne Welch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668876
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book When Women Wrote Hollywood written by Rosanne Welch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.

Without Lying Down

Author : Cari Beauchamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520214927
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Without Lying Down written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion

The Artificial Silk Girl

Author : Irmgard Keun
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514548
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Artificial Silk Girl written by Irmgard Keun and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl. Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.

Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary

Author : Valeria Belletti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520247809
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary written by Valeria Belletti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal letters of Samuel Goldwyn's personal secretary provides an inside look at life as a young professional in 1920's Los Angeles.

How to Write Photoplays

Author : John Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write Photoplays written by John Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Framework

Author : Tom Stempel
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606543
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Framework written by Tom Stempel and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third eidtion of this history of the art and craft of screenwriting from the silents to the present provides information and stories about those who write and have written for film. Includes anecdotal insights into the working lives of directors, producers, and stars, as well as how American movies get made.

Little Me

Author : Patrick Dennis
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030741910X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Little Me written by Patrick Dennis and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another. For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. A runaway bestseller that made its way to Broadway, starring Sid Caesar in 1962 and Martin Short in 1998, Little Me is now reprinted--with all of the 150 historic, hysterical photographs depicting the funniest scenes from Belle's sordid life, including cameo appearances by the author and Rosalind Russell. Considered a collector's item, the first edition of Little Me was like a performance in book form. Now this glittering spoof of celebrity is gloriously reincarnated for connoisseurs of all things chick and cheeky.

Joseph P. Kennedy Presents

Author : Cari Beauchamp
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307475220
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Joseph P. Kennedy Presents written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph P. Kennedy’s reputation as a savvy businessman, diplomat, and sly political patriarch is well-documented. But his years as a Hollywood mogul have never been fully explored until now. In Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, Cari Beauchamp brilliantly explores this unknown chapter in Kennedy’s biography. Between 1926 and 1930, Kennedy positioned himself as a major Hollywood player. In two short years, he was running three studios simultaneously and then, in a bold move, he merged his studios with David Sarnoff to form the legendary RKO Studio. Beauchamp also tells the story of Kennedy’s affair with Gloria Swanson; how he masterminded the mergers that created the blueprint for contemporary Hollywood; and made the fortune that became the foundation of his empire.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and charming, this not-so-dumb blonde has been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose, good-hearted gold digger (not that she sees herself that way). Masquerading as her diaries, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei as she entertains suitors across Europe before returning home to marry a millionaire. In this delightfully droll and witty book, Lorelei's glamorous pragmatism shines, as does Anita Loos's mastery of irony and dialect. A craze in its day and with ageless appeal, this new Liveright edition puts Lorelei back where she belongs: front and center.

Cast of Thousands

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cast of Thousands written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loos shares her collection of memories, photos, and anecdotes of a life spanning over 80 years, roamign from New York to Hollywood, to Paris, Berlin and Rome. It features a case of the most famous and fabulous personalities of the stage and screen.

Rebel Rebel

Author : Chris Sullivan
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789650038
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Rebel written by Chris Sullivan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates the maverick and celebrates the individual. It is an essential read for the left of field.

Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934) (Turner Classic Movies)

Author : Mark A. Vieira
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762466758
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934) (Turner Classic Movies) written by Mark A. Vieira and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none otherA name=_Hlk518256457: you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies. /aYou will see decisions artfully wrought, so as to fool some of the people long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness. You will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years. The book spotlights the twenty-two films that led to the strict new Code of 1934, including Red-Headed Woman, Call Her Savage, and She Done Him Wrong. You'll see Paul Muni shoot a path to power in the original Scarface; Barbara Stanwyck climb the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face; and misfits seek revenge in Freaks. More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Greta Garbo; and the pre-Code stardom of Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Mae West. This is the definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513287273
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes written by Anita Loos and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) is a novel by Anita Loos. Adapted from a series of stories written for Harper’s Bazaar, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was an astounding success for Loos, who had mired for over a decade as a screenwriter in Hollywood and New York. An immediate bestseller, the novel earned praise from leading writers and critics of its time, and has been adapted several times for theater and film. Recognized as a defining text of the Jazz Age, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is an absolute classic dubbed “the great American novel” by Edith Wharton. Lorelei Lee is a young flapper living a life of luxury in Manhattan. A mistress for prominent Chicago businessman Gus Eisman, who pays handsomely, Lorelei has far surpassed her roots as a young woman from Little Rock, Arkansas. Despite her talent as an actress, she finds herself held as an object by wealthy, often married men, whom she uses accordingly. Hers is a life of fine cuisine, opulent jewelry, and tickets to the best shows in town. Soon, however, she grows tired of New York, and sets off on a trip to Europe with her friend Dorothy Shaw. Away from the men who had dragged them down, the two women explore London, Paris, and Vienna, where they find new dopes to dupe with the promise of love. A caricature of the Jazz Age woman, Lorelei Lee reflects the libido and materialism of a generation caught between wars, situated in a time of exponential cultural change, yet wary of disaster’s proximity. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.