Anita Loos
Anita Loos
Anita Looswas an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth26 April 1889
CountryUnited States of America
girl fun laughing
Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
sex fun race
It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
funny thinking thoughtful
One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?
bored consider high order
Tallulah never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
ambition people hollywood
When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
night hot-and-cold cities
with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
land heyday climate
In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.
character cities philadelphia
I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
stars world normal
And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
california climate hot
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
order bored bores
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
girl doe boards
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
solitary drinkers
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
age pasta silhouettes
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?