Anita Loos - biography

“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”

“Fate keeps on happening.”

“I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.”

“The rarest of all things in American life is charm.  We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations.  Without it, America would be grim indeed.”

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”

“I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks’ Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.”

“There’s nothing colder than chemistry.”

“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”

“Gentlemen prefer blondes.”

“I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”

“On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.”

“Pleasure that isn’t paid for is as insipid as everything else that’s free.”

Anita Loos contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
My Baby (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
The Mistake (1913)
The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)
The Lost House (1915)
American Aristocracy (1916)
His Picture in the Papers (1916)
Intolerance (1916)
Macbeth (1916)
The Americano (1916)
The Children Pay (1916)
The Half-Breed (1916)
The Matrimaniac (1916)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
The Social Secretary (1916)
Down to Earth (1917)
In Again, Out Again (1917)
Reaching for the Moon (1917)
Wild and Woolly (1917)
Dangerous Business (1920)
Ex-Bad Boy (1931)
The Struggle (1931)
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Midnight Mary (1933)
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
Riffraff (1936)
Saratoga (1937)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Babes in Arms (1939)
The Women (1939)
Strange Cargo (1940)
Susan and God (1940)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
They Met in Bombay (1941)
When Ladies Meet (1941)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
The Women (2008)