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Anita Loos was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Born in 1889, she was writing movie scripts by the time she was twelve and became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood at the age of twenty-five. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which made her a Jazz Age celebrity in her own right. She also wrote the screenplay for the classic film The Women (1939), as well as a Broadway production of Colette's Gigi (1951). Loos died in 1981.