Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady - Softcover

Loos, Anita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140117881 ISBN 13: 9780140117882

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1989

Synopsis

Lorelei Lee, an attractive gold-digger of the Roaring Twenties, describes her trip to Europe, her many suitors, her brief film career, and the adventures of her best friend, Dorothy

About this title

About the Author:

Anita Loos was born in California in 1888. She began writing movie scripts and supplied film scenarios for D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. First published in 1925, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a best-seller in thirteen languages and was followed by its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Anita Loos was the author of the novels A Mouse is Born and No Mother to Guide Her and two volumes of autobiography, A Girl Like I and Kiss Hollywood Good-by. She died in 1981.

Regina Barreca is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. She is the editor of seven books, including The Penguin Book of Women's Humor, and the author of four others. She writes frequently for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Hartford Courant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140117881
• ISBN 13: 9780140117882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480