Writer Anita Loos shot by famed photographer Edward Steichen, c. 1926. After becoming Hollywood's first female staff screenwriter in 1912, she went on to pen or co-write a number of iconic movies, including 1932's Red-Headed Woman starring Jean Harlow and the all-female film The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford. However she was perhaps best known for her 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady, which focused on an unapologetic and free-living flapper and would later be adapted into the 1953 Marilyn Monroe movie of the same name. An international bestseller, the book was additionally praised by no less than F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, William Faulkner, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton.
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