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Her father's spendthrift ways caught up with them, and in 1903 he took an offer to manage a theater company in San Diego. Īnita continued appearing on stage, being the family's breadwinner. In 1897, at their father's urging, Loos and her sister performed in the San Francisco stock company production of Quo Vadis? Gladys died at age eight of appendicitis, while their father was away on business. This fed her lifelong fascination with lowlifes and loose women. While living in San Francisco, she accompanied her father, an alcoholic, on exciting fishing trips to the pier, exploring the city's underbelly and making friends with the locals. īy age six, Anita Loos wanted to be a writer. In 1892, when Anita was three years old, the family moved to San Francisco, where her father bought the newspaper The Dramatic Event, a veiled version of the British Police Gazette, with money that Minerva borrowed from her father. Her father founded a tabloid newspaper, for which her mother did most of the work of a publisher. 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.' Harry Clifford Loos, a physician and a co-founder of the Ross-Loos Medical Group.Ībout pronouncing her name, Loos said, 'The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse. She had one sister, Gladys Loos, and one brother, Dr. Loos was born in Sisson (now Mount Shasta), California, to Richard Beers Loos and Minerva Ellen 'Minnie' (Smith) Loos. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and her 1951 Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.

Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation.

In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. Corinne Anita Loos (Ap – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

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