Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1981)

Anita Loos

American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress, and television producer

Corinne Anita Loos was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen…