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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 Filled with previously unpublished material, it shows that while gentlemen may have preferred blondes, everyone else in town wisely preferred the irresistible Ms.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

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.

"But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic history of girl who prefers a saxophone player to a millionaire as told by Lorelai.

No Mother to Guide Her

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book No Mother to Guide Her written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Bliss, nave and implacably optimistic champion of the Southern Californian way, uses his newspaper column to defend the movie world's indiscretions from the scandal sheets. As Tinseltown parties end in murder, Elmer innocently runs sunny accounts of the stars' wholesome lives. His crowning moment comes as Miss Viola Lake, Hollywood's favorite clean-cut starlet, is about to be accused of drug abuse and sexual promiscuity during a murder trial that threatens to blow the lid off the film colony. With his good intentions at the ready, Elmer leaps, like a matinee idol, to Viola's protection. With intimate ease, Anita Loos sets up a fondly sardonic and devastatingly funny tour of the glorious artifice and excess that is Hollywood: tasteless fashions, bizarre religious sects, mass murder, sex, divorce, extravagant morals.

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:

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 2018-07-03 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.

Gigi

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573609343
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Gigi written by Anita Loos and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 5 female Scenery: 2 Interiors This is the classic story of a young girl who wins at the game of love. Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and Aunt Alicia, an old-school courtesan, to be a stylish coquette and set her sights on a rich man. When Gaston visits, he brings her candy and lets her cheat at cards, captivated by her girlish ways. Now 16, Gigi is ripe to put away childish things and prepare to become Gaston's mistress. The clever girl however, has ot

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" ; "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" ; "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" written by Anita Loos and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorelei Lee is the ultimate fapper. She's a not-so-dumb blonde whose taste for orchids, champagne, and diamonds is so single-minded she is almost an innocent. Here she is, portrayed on screen, in Anita Loos's own inimitable style. Illustrated.

A Girl Like I

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Girl Like I written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prepublication typed manuscript of American screen writer and author Anita Loos's (1893-1981) autobiography A Girl Like I (1966) bears typed and handwritten editorial markings. Some of the pencil notations are in Loos's hand.

Fate Keeps on Happening

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Dodd Mead
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fate Keeps on Happening written by Anita Loos and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1984 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Kiss Hollywood Goodbye

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140046021
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Kiss Hollywood Goodbye written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

Author : Faye Hammill
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779283
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars written by Faye Hammill and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved literary celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work remains popular even today. Faye Hammill investigates how the fame and commercial success of these writers—as well as their gender—affected the literary reception of their work. She explores how women writers sought to fashion their own celebrity images through various kinds of public performance and how the media appropriated these writers for particular cultural discourses. She also reassesses the relationship between celebrity culture and literary culture, demonstrating how the commercial success of these writers caused literary elites to denigrate their writing as "middlebrow," despite the fact that their work often challenged middle-class ideals of marriage, home, and family and complicated class categories and lines of social discrimination. The first comparative study of North American and British literary celebrity, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars offers a nuanced appreciation of the middlebrow in relation to modernism and popular culture.

The Lady with the Borzoi

Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374709734
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Lady with the Borzoi written by Laura Claridge and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company’s fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as “the soul of the firm,” Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to Albert Camus, André Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm’s beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the twentieth century. Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche’s “witty, loyal, and amusing” personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband. An intimate and often surprising biography, The Lady with the Borzoi is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorized.

Breaking Into the Movies

Author : John Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Into the Movies written by John Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sun and Her Stars

Author : Donna Rifkind
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517229
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Sun and Her Stars written by Donna Rifkind and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Jewish Book Award Finalist The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its “others”; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years, Viertel was the highest-paid writer on the MGM lot. Meanwhile, at her house in Santa Monica she opened her door on Sunday afternoons to scores of European émigrés who had fled from Hitler—such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Arnold Schoenberg—along with every kind of Hollywood star, from Charlie Chaplin to Shelley Winters. In Viertel's living room (the only one in town with comfortable armchairs, said one Hollywood insider), countless cinematic, theatrical, and musical partnerships were born. Viertel combined a modern-before-her-time sensibility with the Old-World advantages of a classical European education and fluency in eight languages. She combined great worldliness with great warmth. She was a true bohemian with a complicated erotic life, and at the same time a universal mother figure. A vital presence in the golden age of Hollywood, Salka Viertel is long overdue for her own moment in the spotlight.