Kiss Hollywood Goodbye

Humor & Entertainment

Anita Loos

Movies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This novel satirizes a pair of sirens of the jazz age, as an example of comic American vernacular writing of this era.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Humor

Penguin Classics

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: THE ILLUMINATING DIARY OF A PROFESSIONAL LADY (PICADOR)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Picador

Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power―more relevant today than ever―can come in the most alluring of packages. This delirious 1925 Jazz Age classic introduced readers to Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, who has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and charming, this not-so-dumb blonde has been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose, good-hearted gold digger (not that she sees herself that way). Masquerading as her diaries, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei as she entertains suitors across Europe before returning home to marry a millionaire. In this delightfully droll and witty book, Lorelei’s glamorous pragmatism shines, as does Anita Loos’s mastery of irony and dialect. A craze in its day and with ageless appeal, this new Liveright edition puts Lorelei back where she belongs: front and center.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Picador Books)

Contemporary

Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent. Beginning in 1912 with the stories she submitted from her San Diego home (some made into films by D. W. Griffith), through her collaboration with Colette on the play Gigi, Anita Loos wrote almost every day for the screen, stage, books, or magazines. Film scripts include San Francisco, The Women, and Red-Headed Woman. The list of stars for whom she created unforgettable roles includes Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, and Carol Channing. This collection has been selected by Anita's niece and close friend, the best-selling author Mary Anita Loos, together with the acclaimed film historian Cari Beauchamp. Their essays are laced throughout the volume, introducing each section and giving previously untold insights and behind-the-scenes stories about Anita―her life, her friendships, and her times.

Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Cari Beauchamp

Mary Anita Loos

University of California Press

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Children's Books

Pearson ESL

Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend'.

Pearson Education ESL

Anita Loos first published the diaries of Lorelei Lee in the flapper days of 1925. Just a little girl from Little Rock, the gold-digging blonde took the world by storm in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, retiring her diary after meeting a traveling American millionaire - but not for long, because, as she tells us in But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, "it is bright ideas that keep the home fires burning, and prevent a divorce from taking all of the bloom off Romance."

But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

Thorndike Press

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction

Diane Pub.

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