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Anita Loos

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Anita Loos was an American writer who began her career as a screenwriter during the silent film era, writing intertitles for D. W. Griffith before becoming a highly paid Hollywood scriptwriter. She achieved international fame as a novelist and playwright with her 1925 comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which satirized modern social mores.

Her work as a screenwriter spanned from early silent films to successful sound-era adaptations of her own plays and novels.

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What is Anita Loos best known for?

Anita Loos became internationally famous for her comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, published in 1925. The book made her one of the best-known American writers of the Jazz Age.

What did Anita Loos write for D. W. Griffith?

During the silent-film era, she wrote intertitles for director D. W. Griffith. Intertitles supplied dialogue and narration on screen before synchronized sound became standard.

Did Anita Loos write The Women?

Yes. Loos wrote the play The Women, first staged in 1938, and George Cukor directed the 1939 film adaptation.

Was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes only a novel?

No. Loos's 1925 novel was later adapted for stage and screen, including the 1949 film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.