Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady is a 1925 comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story follows the dalliances of a young blonde gold-digger and flap
Cover of the 1926 edition
Lorelei Lee (left) and Dorothy Shaw (right) arrive in 1920s Paris, where Lorelei spots a Coty's sign.
Lady Beekman (right) confronts Lorelei and Dorothy and demands the return of her tiara.
Illustration by Ralph Barton
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 stor
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel)
…1981 at the age of 93, the work had been printed in over 85 editions and adapted into a 1926 comic strip, a 1926 Broadway play, a 1928 silent comedy, a 1949 Broadway musical, and a 1953 film adaptation of the musical. Loos wrote a sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, in 1927…
1949 Broadway Playbill