Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few classic Hollywood films are more beloved than Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Of course, much of the enduring appeal comes from ...

When the first instalment of Anita Loos’ “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” appeared in Harper’s Bazar, there were ahead of the book many of the unexpected and capricious perils that so often beset the birth ...

One of the early champions of test screenings was Irving Thalberg. One film transformed by that method is recalled in this excerpt from “Anita Loos Rediscovered,” a biography interwoven with fiction ...

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

Anita Loos also created the "crypto-feminist" Lorelei Lee in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' and penned 200 films, but the Academy's big prize eluded her. By Lesley M.M. Blume By 1914, D.W. Griffith’s ...

How is it possible that, until this week, I had never read Anita Loos’ “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”? Certainly, I’ve seen the Howard Hawks film. The book, however, managed to elude me -- until a new ...

1 Interview: 'Adele Had Never Written a Song Before She Came To Us': Principal Stuart Worden On The BRIT School Paris, 1900. Bright, vivacious Gigi lives the carefree life of a schoolgirl in a family ...

Anita Loos has written 11 shows including The Whole Town's Talking (Playwright), The Fall of Eve (Playwright), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Playwright), The Social Register (Playwright), Happy Birthday ...