WRITER

Anita Loos

1889 - 1981

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Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anita Loos has received more than 440,691 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anita Loos is the 4,619th most popular writer (down from 4,253rd in 2019), the 6,236th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,867th in 2019) and the 501st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gentlemen prefer blondes
American Humorous stories, Millionaries, Man-woman relationships
1925
Kiss Hollywood Goodbye
American Authors, Authors, American, Biography
1974
Fate keeps on happening
1984
No mother to guide her
1961
A girl like I
1966
But gentlemen marry brunettes
Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Millionaires
This is the sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. These Jazz Age classics are written as the diaries of flapper, Lorilei Lee, telling of her own adventures and those of her friend, Dorothy, in their search for husbands.
1928

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Loos ranks 4,619 out of 7,302. Before her are Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Javier Cercas, Peter Carey, Gordon Willis, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Gonçalves Dias. After her are Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, Staka Skenderova, Eugenio Espejo, Łukasz Górnicki, and Angela Sommer-Bodenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Anita Loos ranks 215. Before her are Albert Hill, Łucja Frey, Beulah Bondi, Jan Kok, Georges Bonnet, and Géo André. After her are Carl Bertilsson, Richard O'Connor, Stanley Morison, Paul Deman, Giovanni Micheletto, and James L. Peters. Among people deceased in 1981, Anita Loos ranks 173. Before her are Sven Andersson, Mike Bloomfield, Zoya Fyodorova, Ariel Durant, J. L. Mackie, and Mica Todorović. After her are Ludwig Goldbrunner, Stanisław Mazur, Morris Kirksey, Richard O'Connor, Constantin Rădulescu, and Cláudio Coutinho.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anita Loos ranks 6,236 out of 20,380. Before her are Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Gordon Willis (1931), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Sting (1959), Theodore Freeman (1930), and Corinne Griffith (1894). After her are Gary Ross (1956), Robert Lowell (1917), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), Ray Romano (1957), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), and Renee O'Connor (1971).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Anita Loos ranks 501. Before her are Robert Greene (1959), Robert Richardson (1955), Camille Paglia (1947), Art Buchwald (1925), John Piper (1946), and Gordon Willis (1931). After her are Robert Lowell (1917), James Agee (1909), Zane Grey (1872), Nicholas Meyer (1945), Eudora Welty (1909), and Tobias Wolff (1945).

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