ANITA LOOS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH 1970 - HFSID 202531
Price: $260.00
ANITA LOOS
The longtime screenwriter, who based the character Lorelei Lee in
Gentleman Prefer Blondes on herself, inscribes and signs a photo of her
portrait to songwriter and manager Anna Sosenko.
Inscribed photograph signed: "Love to my
darling/Anna/from/Anita/1970". B/w, 3½x5½. Photograph of an original
portrait by Seaton. A former child actress, Loos became a screenwriter at age
20, contributing to more than 60 silent films. In 1925, she published
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the story of Lorelei Lee, a "dumb blonde"
character based on herself, who had a penchant for rich men and diamonds. The
book was made into a New York play in 1926, a Broadway musical starring Carol
Channing (1949) and a film starring Marilyn Monroe (1953). Anna Sosenko
(1910-2000) is best known as the manager of the singer Hildegarde, for whom
she penned the hit song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup." Fine
condition.
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