Anita Loos
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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 T
Loos in 1916
Stylized cover drawing of Anita Loos by Frank Walts on the April 1918 issue of The Liberator
Loos and Emerson at their wedding on June 28, 1919 in Long Island
BREAKING INTO THE MOVIES
John Emerson (filmmaker)
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John Emerson was an American stage actor, playwright, producer, and director of silent films. Emerson was married to Anita Loos from June 15, 1919, until his death, and prior to that the couple had wo
Anita Loos
…for several decades. Loos returned to California as Griffith was leaving Triangle to make longer films, and she joined director and future husband John Emerson for a string of successful Douglas Fairbanks movies. Loos and company realized that Douglas Fairbanks's acrobatics were an extension of his effervescent…
Emerson gluing a moustache on Frank Stockdale, 1921
Emerson and Anita Loos examine a script on a film set, 1918.