An Anita Loos Companion - Softcover

Gale, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633852814 ISBN 13: 9781633852815

Publisher: Word Association Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

Anita Loos (1888-1981) is best known for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It sold in the millions, was widely translated, even into Chinese, and was reworked into a movie, a stage play, and a musical. Anita Loos is also known for writing almost countless movie scripts, beginning when as a teenager she sold one to legendary movieman D. W. Griffith for $15. She also wrote essays, autobiographical items, short stories, and other novels, including But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, which rivals her Blondes in liveliness. Sadly, petite Anita married a big scoundrel, at first talented but soon a leech whose villainy finally cost him. Anita s professional and social life, however, was always unabashed. At MGM studios, she associated with movie moguls Louis B Mayer and Irving Thalberg, and with author F. Scott Fitzgerald. She also knew people as diverse as literary genius Aldus Huxley and astronomer genius Edwin Hubble, actors as different as Clark Gable and Eddie Cantor, and actresses as unlike as Helen Hayes and Mae West. Anita s writings appealed to fellow authors, not least James Joyce, H. L. Mencken, Edith Wharton, and Edmund Wilson. This Companion presents details of Anita Loos s life, works, and friends, and also throws light on the tumultuous times in which she lived. Robert L. Gale, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University, was a Counter Intelligence Corps officer in the U.S. Army during World War II, and served in the United Kingdom, in France, and briefly in North Africa. He taught for forty years in American and foreign universities, and has published widely, including reference books like this one and others by Word Association Publishers, recently on Frank Norris, Robinson Jeffers, and George Washington Cable. Retired from the University of Pittsburgh, Gale lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Word Association Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1633852814
• ISBN 13: 9781633852815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412