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“A Girl Like I helps us to chart the transition from theater to film. Anita Loos, born in 1889, started out in the world of theater. Her father was both a newspaperman and a theater owner. Steeped in the world of entertainment from a young age, Loos understood how it depended on publicity and news coverage and how that publicity and news coverage can be manipulated and angled. She tells a lot of charming stories about the theatrical world that film replaced.” Read more...
Sharon Marcus, Literary Scholar
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