Books by Anita Loos
“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
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anita Loos
I always remember her interview on the BBC when she was a very old lady indeed. They asked her: ‘Miss Loos, if you wrote your book again now, are there any changes you’d like to make in it?’ She said: ‘Yeah, these days I’d call it Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen.
Interviews where books by Anita Loos were recommended
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