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Etna Cemetery, Etna, California. Occupation. Actress, novelist, screenwriter. Years active. 19. SpousesFrank Pallma, Jr. John Emerson 1. 91. Anita Loos April 2. August 1. 8, 1. 98. American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She wrote film scripts from 1. D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation. She went on to write many of the Douglas Fairbanks films, as well as the stage adaptation of Colettes Gigi. BiographyeditEarly lifeeditAnita Loos was born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California today Mount Shasta, to Richard Beers Loos and Minnie Ellen Smith. Loos had two siblings Gladys and Clifford Harry Clifford, a physician and co founder of the Ross Loos Medical Group. On pronouncing her name, Loos is reported to have said, The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse. However, I myself pronounce my name as if it were spelled luce, since most people pronounce it that way and it was too much trouble to correct them. Loos father, R. Beers Loos, founded a tabloid for which her mother, Minerva Minnie Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher. In 1. Loos was four years old, the family moved to San Francisco, where Beers Loos bought the newspaper The Dramatic Event, a veiled version of the UKs Police Gazette, with money Minerva borrowed from her father. While living in San Francisco, Loos followed her dissolute alcoholic father as they explored the citys underbelly. Together they would sit on the pier, fishing and making friends with the locals, feeding into Loos lifelong fascination with lowlifes and loose women. In 1. San Francisco stock company production of Quo Vadis. Gladys died, aged eight, of appendicitis while their father was on one of his drinking and philandering fishing trips. Anita continued appearing on stage, sometimes being the familys sole breadwinner. Eventually Beers Loos spendthrift ways caught up with them, and in 1. Beers Loos took an offer to manage a theater company in San Diego. There, Anita performed simultaneously in her fathers stock company, and under another name with the more legitimate stock company in town. It was around this time that she started shaving years off her true age. Loos had known she wanted to be a writer since she was six, and she also wanted to free herself of the shackles of stock performance. After graduating from San Diego High, Loos devised a method of cobbling together published reports of Manhattan social life, mailing them to a friend in New York who would submit them under their own name for publication in San Diego. Her father had turned out some one act plays for the stock company, and encouraged Anita to work in the field herself. She wrote The Ink Well, a successful piece for which she would receive periodic royalties. In 1. Anita would take a perfunctory bow and run to the back of the theater to watch them. She sent her first attempt at a screenplay, He Was A College Boy, to the Biograph Company, for which she received 2. The New York Hat, starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore and directed by D. Watch Queen Of The Desert IMDB. W. Griffith, was her third screenplay and the first to be produced. Watch Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead Online (2017). Loos dredged real life and real situations for her scenarios she dished up her fathers cronies, her brothers friends and the rich vacationers from the San Diego resorts eventually every experience became grist for her script mill. By 1. Loos had sold scripts to both the Biograph and Lubin studios. Between 1. 91. 2 and 1. Hollywoodedit. Stylized drawing of film writer Anita Loos by Frank Walts on the cover of the April 1. The Liberator. Her mother had objected to Loos working in Hollywood. In 1. 91. 5, trying to escape her influence, Loos married her first husband, Frank Pallma, Jr., the son of the band conductor. But Frank proved to be penniless and dull after six months, Anita sent him out for hair pins, and while he was gone she packed her bags and went home to her mother. After that, Minnie rethought her position on a Hollywood career. Accompanied by her mother, Anita joined the film colony in Hollywood where Griffith put Loos on the payroll for Triangle Film Corporation at 7. Many of the scripts she turned out for Griffith went unproduced. Some he considered unfilmable because the laughs were all in the lines, there was no way to get them onto the screen, but he encouraged her to continue, because reading them amused him. Her first screen credit was for an adaptation of Macbeth in which her billing came right after Shakespeares. When Griffith asked her to write the subtitling for his epic Intolerance 1. New York City for the first time to attend its premiere. Instead of returning to Hollywood, Loos spent the fall of 1. New York and met with Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair. They had an instant rapport, and Loos would remain a Vanity Fair contributor for several decades. Loos returned to California just as Griffith, who wanted to make longer films, was leaving Triangle, and she joined director and future husband John Emerson for a string of successful Douglas Fairbanks films. Loos and company realized that Douglas Fairbanks acrobatics were an extension of his effervescent personality and parlayed his natural athletic ability into swashbuckling adventure roles. His Picture in the Papers 1. My most popular subtitle introduced the name of a new character. The name was something like this Count Xxerkzsxxv. Then there was a note, To those of you who read titles aloud, you cant pronounce the Counts name. You can only think it. The five films Loos wrote for Fairbanks made him a star. When Fairbanks was offered a sweetheart deal with Famous Players Lasky, he took the team of Emerson Loos with him at the high income of 5. During this time Loos, Fairbanks and Emerson collaborated well together, and Loos was getting as much publicity as either Lillian Gish or Pickford. Photoplay magazine labeled her The Soubrette of Satire. In 1. Famous Players Lasky offered the couple a four picture deal in New York for more money than they had been making with the Fairbanks unit. New YorkeditLoos, Emerson and fellow writer Frances Marion migrated to New York as a group, Loos and Emerson sharing a leased mansion in Great Neck, Long Island. Loos desperately wanted Marion as chaperone, as she found herself attracted to Emerson. He would readily admit that he had never been, nor could be, faithful to any one female. Loos convinced herself that he would see that she was different from all his other girls, and that behind his outwardly dull exterior was a great mind. She would be wrong on both counts. She would later write I had set my sights on a man of brains, to whom I could look up, she lamented, but what a terrible let down it would be to find out that I was smarter than he was. The pictures for Famous Players Lasky were not as successful as their previous films, partly because they starred Broadway headliners not adept at screen acting. In addition to their film collaborations the couple wrote two books Breaking Into the Movies, published in 1. How to Write Photoplays in 1. Though the scripts carried both names, they were mostly products of Loos alone. Later Loos would claim that Emerson took all the money and most of the credit for projects, even though his contribution usually consisted of observing from bed as Loos worked. Much to the chagrin of her friends, her adoration of Emerson had manifested as subservience. When their contract was not renewed, he blamed her scripts, though he had claimed credit for them. When William Randolph Hearst offered Loos a contract to write a picture for his mistress Marion Davies,1.