Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.
1949 Broadway Playbill
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 Prefer Blondes, and her 1951 Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.
1916 portrait of Loos
Stylized cover drawing of Anita Loos by Frank Walts on the April 1918 issue of The Liberator
Anita Loos and John Emerson in Edward Steichen photo for Vanity Fair, July 1928
The 1926 cover, illustrated by Ralph Barton, for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady.