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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She was known as a writer who could save any adaptation, taking over the adaptation of the now-legendary pre-Code film "Red Headed Woman" after F. She was a celebrity on the level of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, unheard of at the time (or any other time) for screenwriters. Anita Loos was arguably the most famous of the many women screenwriters of the silent era and remaining so well after the change to talkies. INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "Ap/ So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's illustrated deco bookplate on the facing front pastedown. Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). ![]()
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