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name: "Anita Loos"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anita-loos"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 April 1888"
died: "18 August 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T00:23:37.970255+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Anita Loos

Writer. Born 25 April 1888 in Etna, California, USA. Died 18 August 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 April 1888, Etna, California, USA
- **Died:** 18 August 1981
- **Active:** 1936–1941
- **Also known as:** Corinne Anita Loos, Buggie, Nita
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 71 (1), 1940s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002616/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11436

## Biography

Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing scenarios for D. W. Griffith’s Biograph Company, with her first produced script *The New York Hat* (1912). She contributed titles to Griffith’s *Intolerance* (1916) and wrote numerous silent-film scenarios before moving into sound pictures.

Loos is best known for her 1925 novel *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes*. Among her screenplays are *Red-Headed Woman* (1932), *San Francisco* (1936), *Another Thin Man* (1939) and *The Women* (1939). She also adapted Colette’s *Gigi* for the Broadway stage in 1951. She died in New York in 1981.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Fi1m 58, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *San Francisco* (1936), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)

## Complete filmography (99)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Women* (2008), Original Story
- *D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913* (2002), Writer
- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Thanks
- *Eshaet Hob* (1960), Original Story
- *Gentlemen Marry Brunettes* (1955), Novel
- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1953), Novel, Theatre Play
- *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), Dialogue
- *I Married an Angel* (1942), Screenplay
- *When Ladies Meet* (1941), Screenplay
- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *They Met in Bombay* (1941), Screenplay
- *Susan and God* (1940), Screenplay
- *Strange Cargo* (1940), Adaptation
- *Another Thin Man* (1939), as Additional Writing · Writer
- *Babes in Arms* (1939), as Additional Writing
- *The Women* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Cowboy and the Lady* (1938), as Additional Writing
- *Saratoga* (1937), Writer
- *Mama Steps Out* (1937), Screenplay
- *San Francisco* (1936), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/san-francisco.md)
- *Riffraff* (1936), Screenplay
- *Biography of a Bachelor Girl* (1935), Writer
- *The Girl from Missouri* (1934), Screenplay
- *Social Register* (1934), Story
- *Midnight Mary* (1933), Story
- *Hold Your Man* (1933), Story, Screenplay
- *The Barbarian* (1933), Writer
- *Blondie of the Follies* (1932), Dialogue, Writer
- *Red-Headed Woman* (1932), Screenplay
- *The Struggle* (1931), Screenstory
- *Ex-Bad Boy* (1931), Writer
- *The Fall of Eve* (1929), Story
- *Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* (1928), Writer
- *Publicity Madness* (1927), Writer
- *Stranded* (1927), Story
- *The Whole Town's Talking* (1926), Theatre Play
- *Camille: The Fate of a Coquette* (1926), as Camille
- *Learning to Love* (1925), Screenplay
- *Three Miles Out* (1924), Scenario Writer
- *Dulcy* (1923), Writer
- *Red Hot Romance* (1922), Screenplay, Story
- *Polly of the Follies* (1922), Writer
- *Woman's Place* (1921), Writer
- *Mama's Affair* (1921), Writer
- *Dangerous Business* (1920), Producer, Writer
- *The Branded Woman* (1920), Adaptation
- *The Perfect Woman* (1920), Writer
- *The Love Expert* (1920), Producer, Writer
- *In Search of a Sinner* (1920), Writer
- *Two Weeks* (1920), Writer
- *A Virtuous Vamp* (1919), Writer
- *The Isle of Conquest* (1919), Writer
- *A Temperamental Wife* (1919), Writer, Producer, Supervisor of Production Resources
- *Oh, You Women!* (1919), Writer
- *Getting Mary Married* (1919), Writer
- *Under the Top* (1919), Story
- *Good-Bye, Bill* (1918), Writer, Producer
- *Come on In* (1918), Writer
- *Hit-the-Trail Holliday* (1918), Writer
- *Let's Get a Divorce* (1918), Writer
- *Reaching for the Moon* (1917), Writer
- *Down to Earth* (1917), Writer
- *Wild and Woolly* (1917), Writer
- *In Again, Out Again* (1917), Writer
- *A Daughter of the Poor* (1917), Writer
- *The Americano* (1916), Writer
- *The Matrimaniac* (1916), Screenplay
- *The Children Pay* (1916), Writer
- *American Aristocracy* (1916), Story
- *The Social Secretary* (1916), Writer
- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), Writer
- *The Half-Breed* (1916), Writer
- *Stranded* (1916), Writer
- *A Wild Girl of the Sierras* (1916), Writer
- *The Mystery of the Leaping Fish* (1916), Writer
- *Macbeth* (1916), Writer
- *A Corner in Cotton* (1916), Story
- *His Picture in the Papers* (1916), Writer
- *At the Road's End* (1915), Writer
- *A Ten-Cent Adventure* (1915), Scenario Writer
- *The Lost House* (1915), Scenario Writer
- *The Sisters* (1914), Scenario Writer
- *The Saving Grace* (1914), Scenario Writer
- *For Her Father's Sins* (1914), Writer
- *A Lesson in Mechanics* (1914), Scenario Writer
- *The Hunchback* (1914), Writer
- *The Gangsters of New York* (1914), Writer
- *A Duel for Love* (1914), Writer
- *Oh, Sammy!* (1913), Story
- *A Cure for Suffragettes* (1913), Writer
- *The Lady in Black* (1913), Writer
- *The Widow's Kids* (1913), Writer
- *Pa Says* (1913), Writer
- *Highbrow Love* (1913), Writer
- *The Power of the Camera* (1913), Writer
- *The Telephone Girl and the Lady* (1913), Writer
- *The New York Hat* (1912), Writer
- *My Baby* (1912), Writer
- *The Musketeers of Pig Alley* (1912), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Photo portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos (1920)](https://film.one/media/person/1229323/gallery-f736ba6180ef.png) Photo portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos (1920) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/AnitaLoosPortrait.png/1280px-AnitaLoosPortrait.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Anita Loos](https://film.one/media/person/1229323/gallery-58b297e6e7e3.jpg) Anita Loos — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Anita_Loos_-_Apr_May_1920_MP.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Anita Loos](https://film.one/media/person/1229323/gallery-63d81f306e8f.jpg) Anita Loos — Image via TMDB

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