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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loos began as an actress in her father's theater in California and began selling scenarios to D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company. From there, Loos went on to compile one of the most impressive writing resumes of any woman this century. In addition to Gentlemen, Loos was responsible for the...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Carey attempts to prove that though Loos associated with the excesses and inanities of Hollywood life, she clung to a reserved, almost conventional outlook. Carey's book is thorough, almost painstakingly so. He does not fall into the trap of treating his subject with simpering adoration, a common pitfall of...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Loos' one marriage, to collaborator John Emerson, was long and unhappy. Mr. E, as she called him, was relegated to becoming Mr. Loos after Anita began garnering acclaim on her own. But at the beginning of Anita's career, Mr. E.'s name on a script was probably instrumental in...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

CAREY takes the role of biographer too literally, sticking almost exclusively to the facts of his subject's life and ignoring the context of the times in which she lived. He carefully avoids the issue of whether Loos encountered any discrimination as a woman, implying that Loos was treated from...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

But Loos did submit her first script under the gender neutral name of A. Loos because she had heard that male writers get paid better. And throughout her career, Loos was at the mercy of the whims and prejudices of the producers, almost exclusively male, who ran Hollywood and Broadway...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Anita Loos: a Woman in a Man's World | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

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