![]() ![]() George Cukor is historically known as Hollywood's "women's director," turning out hit after hit with films with inspired performances by female leads. The novel was adapted routinely for the stage and on the screen. Loos retired from screenwriting in 1945, after doctoring the script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." In 1925, just prior to the advent of the talkies, Loos wrote her first novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," which would become one of the most famous books of the Jazz Age, and the work for which Loos would become best known. ![]() She was known as a writer who could save any adaptation, taking over the adaptation of the now-legendary pre-Code film "Red Headed Woman" after F. She was a celebrity on the level of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, unheard of at the time (or any other time) for screenwriters. Anita Loos was arguably the most famous of the many women screenwriters of the silent era and remaining so well after the change to talkies. INSCRIBED by Anita Loos to director George Cukor on the front endpaper some years later: "Ap/ So now after 25 years you want my autograph! / My love you've always had / Anita." With Cukor's illustrated deco bookplate on the facing front pastedown. ![]() Thirteenth printing, published in May 1926 (first printing having been published in November 1925). ![]()
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