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
father writing age
I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.
writing acting talent
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
writing thinking important
I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
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?