"Anita Loos Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". She wrote film scripts from 1912, and became arguably the first-ever staff scriptwriter, when 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 Colette’s ""Gigi"". Anita 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"
"Blondes"". Both books began as sketch series originally published in ""Harper's Bazaar"" magazine. Loos had planned on retiring after writing ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" in order to care for her partner, John Emerson. However, she had promised ""Harper's Bazaar"" a sequel, so Loos and Emerson did not leave for Europe until shortly after the sequel had been published. The sequel to ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" is also narrated by Lorelei, the bubbly blonde; however, she tells the tale of her friend, Dorothy, a bright talented young woman who grew up in a carnival company; she is discovered by Charlie, who helps her"
"buried in Portsmouth, England, ""with the honors of war."" Douville married Cynthia Aborn on July 26, 1778, in Providence, Rhode Island, a week after Cynthia turned eighteen years old. They had five children; Pierre in 1781, Cynthia in 1783, Lowrey Charles in 1786, Samuel Joseph in 1788, and Mary in 1789. When Douville died, Cynthia Aborn received a pension from the French Government until her death in October 1806. One of Douville's descendents was the actor Charles Douville Coburn, an American film actor known for his role in ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". Brown University has a painting of Douville. The painter"
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes, and Norma Varden in supporting roles. The film is filled with comedic gags and musical numbers, choreographed by Jack Cole, while the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson, Jule Styne, and Leo Robin. The songs by Styne and Robin are from the Broadway show, while the songs by Carmichael"
"Loos began to write a sketch of Mencken and his vacant lady friends that would later become ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"". ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" began as a series of short sketches published in ""Harper's Bazaar"", Known as the ""Lorelei"" stories, they were satires on the state of sexual relations that only vaguely alluded to sexual intimacy; the magazine's circulation quadrupled overnight. The heroine of the stories, Lorelei Lee, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more concerned with collecting expensive baubles from her conquests than any marriage licenses, in addition to being a shrewd woman of loose morals and high"
"""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"", now lost, was released in 1928, starring Ruth Taylor (as Lorelei Lee), who took her role so seriously that as soon as the film was finished she married a millionaire named Paul Zuckerman and never worked again. From 1927 to 1929, Loos and Emerson traveled extensively, which was hard on Loos' health. All their winters were spent in Palm Beach, where Emerson would indulge in social climbing. There Loos met Wilson Mizner, a witty and charming real estate speculator and in some quarters – confidence man. Though they saw each other every day, the relationship, what there"
"Blonde (novel) Blonde is a bestselling 2000 historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe, though Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize (2001) and the National Book Award (2000). ""Rocky Mountain News"" and ""Entertainment Weekly"" have listed ""Blonde"" as one of Joyce Carol Oates's best books, and Oates herself has said that ""Blonde"" is one of the two books (along with 1969's ""them"") for which she thinks she will be remembered. At over 700"
"Marilyn: Norma Jean Marilyn: Norma Jean is a biography of Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Baker) by feminist Gloria Steinem. Published in 1988, the book features pictures by photographer George Barris and thus evokes Norman Mailer's 1973 controversial biography """" that also essentially is a long essay on Monroe added to a book of photographs. John Smothers, in his 1987 review in ""The Library Journal"", wrote: ""Steinem admits that as a teenager she walked out on the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because she was embarrassed at Monroe's performance/persona. Now admiring of her subject, Steinem spends little time on Monroe's films"
"Georges Blond Georges Blond (""Jean-Marie Hoedick"", 11 July 1906 in Marseille – 16 March 1989 in Paris), was a French writer. A prolific writer of mostly history but also other topics including fiction, Blond was also involved in far right political activity. Blond initially came to attention as a disciple of Alexis Carrel, and when reviewing Carrel's book ""L'Homme, cet inconnu"" for the journal ""Le petit dauphinois"" commented that Carrel was one of the few writers who would genuinely alter who people thought of themselves. He became noted as a sympathiser with fascism during the mid-1930s. His works regularly appeared"
"first film version, which is now lost, was released in 1928 and starred Ruth Taylor and Alice White. Better known is the 1953 film version of the musical, ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"", starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The novel's characters were licensed for use in a daily newspaper comic strip series that ran from April to September 1926. The comic strip was not an adaptation of the novel, but used the novel's characters in new gag situations. Although the writing was credited to Loos, it was presumably ghosted by the artists, Virginia Huget and Phil Cook. The original series was"
"Theatre, a spectacle that got a lot of publicity for both actresses and for the film. Loos wrote a sequel to her novel entitled ""But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"", with further adventures of Lorelei and Dorothy. The 1955 ""Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"" musical film used only the book's name and starred Russell and Jeanne Crain playing completely new characters. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks and stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,"
"Legally Blonde (novel) Legally Blonde is a 2001 comedy novel by American author Amanda Brown, with a copyright credit also going to Brigid (Bridget) Kerrigan. The novel was the basis of the 2001 film ""Legally Blonde"" which starred Reese Witherspoon and its 2003 sequel """", as well as the musical ""Legally Blonde"" and the 2009 direct-to-video film ""Legally Blondes"". The novel was based on Brown's experiences while enrolled in Stanford Law School. ""Legally Blonde"" is also the basis of a series of young adult fiction novels featuring the character of Elle Woods written by Natalie Standiford. Elle Woods, a blonde"
"chronicled her experiences on a Tumblr called Spending the Stephen King Money. Her novel ""The Blondes"" was published by St. Martin's Press in 2015 and listed as a Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus, BookPage, and NPR, who described it as ""scary and deeply, bitingly funny — a satire about gender that kept me reading until 4 in the morning — and a fine addition to the all-too-small genre of feminist horror.” In May 2017 it was announced that The Blondes would be developed as an original series for AMC Networks' Shudder with Schultz writing along with her"
"song is also featured in the 2001 film ""Moulin Rouge!"", in which it is sung principally by Nicole Kidman in the role of Satine, the (fictional) star performer of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris, at the turn of the 20th century. This film version is technically a musical adaptation that director Baz Luhrmann titled ""Sparkling Diamonds"". Although it consists almost entirely of an adaptation of ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"", this version differs from the lyrics in ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" in several ways. For example, it does not include the name Harry Winston in the chant of"
"Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. McCarthy's fifth novel, ""Blood Meridian"" (1985), was on ""Time"" magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923. For ""All the Pretty Horses"" (1992), he won both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His 2005 novel ""No Country for Old Men"" was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ""All the Pretty Horses"","
"Bergdorf Blondes Bergdorf Blondes is the 2004 chick lit début novel of Plum Sykes, an English-born fashion writer and New York “it girl”. The book was released in hardcover on April 7, 2004 by Miramax Books (USA) and Viking Press (UK) and a paperback edition was released the following year by Penguin. The book's title refers to rumors that one of the characters routinely gets her hair dyed a certain shade of blonde at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury goods department store in Midtown Manhattan. The book follows an unnamed young socialite living in New York as she interacts with her"
"In 2003 came ""Anita Loos Rediscovered"", which was edited and annotated by Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos (Anita Loos' niece). Published by University of California Press, the book compiles samples of Loos's previously unpublished work as well as the personal life and work of novelist, screenwriter, and playwright [ author of ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" as well as several other books and dozens of plays and screenplays. In 2006, ""University of California Press"" released ""Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s"" by Valeria Belletti, edited and annotated by Beauchamp, with a foreword by"
"Mervyn Griffith-Jones John Mervyn Guthrie Griffith-Jones, CBE MC (1 July 1909 – 13 July 1979) was a British judge and former barrister. He is most famous for leading the prosecution of Penguin Books in the obscenity trial in 1960 following the publication of D. H. Lawrence's ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"". His much quoted remark in his opening statement as to whether the novel was something ""you would even wish your wife or servants to read"" is often cited as representing the extent to which the British 'Establishment' had fallen out of touch with popular opinion at the time. He failed to"
"Lillian B. Horace Lillian Bertha Jones Horace (""née"" Amstead; April 29, 1880 – August 1, 1965) was an African American author, educator, and librarian from Fort Worth, Texas, best known for her novels ""Five Generations Hence"" (1916), ""Crowned with Glory and Honor"", and ""Angie Brown"". These are the earliest novels on record written by an African-American woman from Texas. Horace married and divorced twice, and continued to teach, travel and write throughout her life. At the time of her retirement, she had been an educator for over thirty years. Lillian Bertha Amstead (or Armistead) was born April 29, 1880 in"
"his time-worn histrionics, she made certain Emerson understood he would not be joining her in New York under any circumstances. Once again at home in New York, she and her old friend screenwriter Frances Marion, worked on an unproduced play for Zasu Pitts. A few romances came her way, including Maurice Chevalier. Two Broadway producers had their eye on a musical version of ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" and brought in Joseph Fields as co-author. After initial stops and starts, Loos threatened to quit the production unless they assured her she would never have to speak to Fields again. The show opened"
"Carmine Cervi. Nelson Algren Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. Algren may be best known for ""The Man with the Golden Arm"", a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. According to Harold Augenbraum, ""in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary writers in America"". The lover of French writer Simone de Beauvoir, he is featured in her novel ""The Mandarins"", set in Paris and Chicago. He is considered ""a sort of bard of"
"Tommy Noonan Tommy Noonan (April 29, 1921 – April 24, 1968) was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a number of 'A' and 'B' pictures from the 1940s through the 1960s, and he is best known for his supporting performances as Gus Esmond, wealthy fiancé of Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) in ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" (1953), and as the musician Danny McGuire in ""A Star Is Born"" (1954). He played a stock room worker in the film ""Bundle of Joy"" (1956) with Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Born Thomas Noon in Bellingham, Washington, he was the"
"is too, a lack of grasp in Howard Hawks' handling, which is scrappy and uninventive."" On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Anchored by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's sparkling magnetism, ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" is a delightfully entertaining 1950s musical."" German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared it one of the ten best films ever made. Monroe and Russell were accorded the honor of putting their hand and foot prints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese"
"beautiful than springtime, it's young love"". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4483198/ The Man Who Loved Flowers ""The Man Who Loved Flowers"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the August 1977 issue of ""Gallery"", and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". The story begins in New York City, during an early evening in May 1963. The main character is an unnamed man who is walking up 3rd Avenue. It's a gorgeous evening, and the sky is just changing color from light blue to violet. The man is wearing a light gray suit. He looks like he is in love."
"Amanda Brown (novelist) Amanda Brown (October 6, 1970) is an American novelist who wrote the novel ""Legally Blonde"" which was the basis for the film and musical of the same name. Born to Jack E. Brown, a successful lawyer, and Suzanne J. Brown, an art gallery owner, Brown graduated from Arizona State University in 1993. She then proceeded to study at Stanford Law School (never actually receiving a law degree), where she compiled funny letters and stories based on her experiences into a first manuscript that would become the novel ""Legally Blonde"". Since the success of the 2001 film, Brown"
"Laurell K. Hamilton Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories. Her ""New York Times""-bestselling """" series centers on Anita Blake, a professional zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant for the police, which includes novels, short story collections, and comic books. Six million copies of ""Anita Blake"" novels are in print. Her Merry Gentry series centers on Meredith Gentry, Princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie, a private detective facing repeated assassination attempts. Both of these fantasy series follow their protagonists"
"and white women. In turn, she is a positive influence on those around her. Lillian B. Horace Lillian Bertha Jones Horace (""née"" Amstead; April 29, 1880 – August 1, 1965) was an African American author, educator, and librarian from Fort Worth, Texas, best known for her novels ""Five Generations Hence"" (1916), ""Crowned with Glory and Honor"", and ""Angie Brown"". These are the earliest novels on record written by an African-American woman from Texas. Horace married and divorced twice, and continued to teach, travel and write throughout her life. At the time of her retirement, she had been an educator for"
"ideal hair). But it's hard to care about the airhead-ed characters. One wishes Sykes had abandoned chick lit conventions and bared her Nars Candy Darling-varnished nails with an all-out Tom Wolfe-style satire. That would be worth stashing in an Hermès handbag."" Bergdorf Blondes Bergdorf Blondes is the 2004 chick lit début novel of Plum Sykes, an English-born fashion writer and New York “it girl”. The book was released in hardcover on April 7, 2004 by Miramax Books (USA) and Viking Press (UK) and a paperback edition was released the following year by Penguin. The book's title refers to rumors that"
"William Goldman William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to screenwriting. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969) and again for ""All the President's Men"" (1976). His other works include his thriller novel ""Marathon Man"" and comedy-fantasy novel ""The Princess Bride"", both of which Goldman adapted for the film versions. Author Sean Egan has described Goldman as ""one of the late twentieth century's most popular storytellers."""
"as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway best seller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it ""The Great American Novel."" A sequel, ""But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"", was published two years later. Responding to a male friend’s suggestion that she should write down her thoughts because it would make an interesting book, the blonde Lorelei Lee narrates the novel in the form of a diary complete with spelling and grammatical errors. Lorelei Lee had been working in movies in Hollywood when"
"The Man Who Loved Children The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". The novel has been championed by novelists Robert Stone, Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter. Carter believed Stead's other novels ""Cotters England""; ""A Little Tea, A Little Chat""; and ""For Love Alone"" to be as good, if not better than ""The Man"
"Gerald Butler (author) Gerald Butler (July 31, 1907 – February 1, 1988) was an English crime, mystery, thriller and pulp writer and screenwriter. He was born on July 31, 1907 and worked as a chemist prior to becoming a novelist. He later worked as a director of an advertising firm. He was sometimes referred to as the """"English James M. Cain"""". He was thirty-seven years old when his first novel, ""Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"", was published in 1940 by Jarrolds Publishing. ""Kiss the Blood Off My Hands"" became a best-seller and by 1945, it had sold over 232,000"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"