Download or read book Anita Loos written by Gary Carey and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intertwines the stories of rock star and vampire Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha, mother of all vampires, who dreams of godhood.
Download or read book Anita Loos Rediscovered written by Anita Loos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I adored Anita, as did the entire fashion and literary world. She was four feet nine inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic."—Carol Channing "This book celebrates a character as memorable as any Anita Loos created in her writing. She was an indomitable, wise-cracking prodigy who not only helped create Hollywood, but managed to survive it."—John Sayles "If we can't have the wonderful Anita Loos-smart, witty, literate and fun- writing today's Hollywood movies, at least we can get reacquainted with her and her work through this delightful book. Filled with previously unpublished material, it shows that while gentlemen may have preferred blondes, everyone else in town wisely preferred the irresistible Ms. Loos."—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times "This is a wonderful book about a talented, fascinating, and groundbreaking woman. Her life epitomizes a certain era in show business and describes a Hollywood in which few women were allowed to rise to the top. Anita Loos did and we were all the beneficiaries. I loved the book!"—Peter Duchin "Not only is it valuable to have these delightful Anita Loos pieces, but the biographical chapters are fascinating too."—Kevin Brownlow, author of David Lean: A Biography
Download or read book But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic history of girl who prefers a saxophone player to a millionaire as told by Lorelai.
Download or read book No Mother to Guide Her written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Bliss, nave and implacably optimistic champion of the Southern Californian way, uses his newspaper column to defend the movie world's indiscretions from the scandal sheets. As Tinseltown parties end in murder, Elmer innocently runs sunny accounts of the stars' wholesome lives. His crowning moment comes as Miss Viola Lake, Hollywood's favorite clean-cut starlet, is about to be accused of drug abuse and sexual promiscuity during a murder trial that threatens to blow the lid off the film colony. With his good intentions at the ready, Elmer leaps, like a matinee idol, to Viola's protection. With intimate ease, Anita Loos sets up a fondly sardonic and devastatingly funny tour of the glorious artifice and excess that is Hollywood: tasteless fashions, bizarre religious sects, mass murder, sex, divorce, extravagant morals.
Download or read book How to Write Photoplays written by John Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Girl Like I written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prepublication typed manuscript of American screen writer and author Anita Loos's (1893-1981) autobiography A Girl Like I (1966) bears typed and handwritten editorial markings. Some of the pencil notations are in Loos's hand.
Download or read book Gigi written by Anita Loos and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / Characters: 2 male, 5 female Scenery: 2 Interiors This is the classic story of a young girl who wins at the game of love. Gigi has been brought up by her Grandmama and Aunt Alicia, an old-school courtesan, to be a stylish coquette and set her sights on a rich man. When Gaston visits, he brings her candy and lets her cheat at cards, captivated by her girlish ways. Now 16, Gigi is ripe to put away childish things and prepare to become Gaston's mistress. The clever girl however, has ot
Download or read book Fate Keeps on Happening written by Anita Loos and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1984 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cast of Thousands written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loos shares her collection of memories, photos, and anecdotes of a life spanning over 80 years, roamign from New York to Hollywood, to Paris, Berlin and Rome. It features a case of the most famous and fabulous personalities of the stage and screen.
Download or read book Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes written by Kristin Sergel and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorelei Lee is just a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm to teach its gentlemen that "kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde in 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world.
Download or read book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes And But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lady with the Borzoi written by Laura Claridge and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company’s fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as “the soul of the firm,” Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler; signed and nurtured literary authors like Willa Cather, Elizabeth Bowen, and Muriel Spark; acquired momentous works of journalism by John Hersey and William Shirer; and introduced American readers to Albert Camus, André Gide, and Simone de Beauvoir, giving these French writers the benefit of her consummate editorial taste. As Knopf celebrates its centennial, Laura Claridge looks back at the firm’s beginnings and the dynamic woman who helped to define American letters for the twentieth century. Drawing on a vast cache of papers, Claridge also captures Blanche’s “witty, loyal, and amusing” personality, and her charged yet oddly loving relationship with her husband. An intimate and often surprising biography, The Lady with the Borzoi is the story of an ambitious, seductive, and impossibly hardworking woman who was determined not to be overlooked or easily categorized.
Download or read book Kiss Hollywood Goodbye written by Anita Loos and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Without Lying Down written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion.
Download or read book The Talmadge Girls written by Anita Loos and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting copy, typescript, of biography about silent movie stars Constance and Norma Talmadge. Copy is heavily corrected by Loos, with editor's annotations, proofreaders' marks, and printer's annotations.
Download or read book Women Celebrity and Literary Culture between the Wars written by Faye Hammill and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved literary celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work remains popular even today. Faye Hammill investigates how the fame and commercial success of these writers—as well as their gender—affected the literary reception of their work. She explores how women writers sought to fashion their own celebrity images through various kinds of public performance and how the media appropriated these writers for particular cultural discourses. She also reassesses the relationship between celebrity culture and literary culture, demonstrating how the commercial success of these writers caused literary elites to denigrate their writing as "middlebrow," despite the fact that their work often challenged middle-class ideals of marriage, home, and family and complicated class categories and lines of social discrimination. The first comparative study of North American and British literary celebrity, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars offers a nuanced appreciation of the middlebrow in relation to modernism and popular culture.
Download or read book 30 Second Cinema written by Nikki Baughan and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we'd like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema's beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movements--from German Expressionism to New Hollywood--and with the movies as a business. By the time you've worked your way through, you'll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you'll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.
