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But, for all the three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical. This version adds flashy songs, dances, Technicolor, a present-day setting and a happy ending to Anita Loos's famed 1925 bestseller about the fine art of gold digging during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

Adapting Gigi from Colette's novel, Anita Loos has weighted a delicate story a bit too heavily with farce, and the cast scurries through the lines as though intent on catching the 10:35 out of town. Due perhaps to an over-familiarity with the script after a year on...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Gigi | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

Gigi (adapted by Anita Loos from Colette's novel; produced by Gilbert Miller) is the adolescent daughter-in turn-of-the-century Paris-of an established line of cocottes. Though her mother and grandmother never succeeded in being elegantly maintained, they firmly insist that the traditions of their calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

A MOUSE Is BORN (214 pp.)-Anita Loos-Doubleday ($2.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Recipe | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Recipe | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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