Cari Beauchamp is the author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (California, 1998) and Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival (1992). Mary Anita Loos is the author of A Pride of Lovers (1981), The Barstow Legend (1978), Belinda (1976), and The Beggars Are Coming (1974).

• Plates follow page Foreword Mary Anita Loos Introduction Cari Beauchamp ANITA LOOS AND HER STORIES FROM SAN DIEGO, 1888--1915 The School of Acting The Highbrow Plagiarism The Man Who Looked Up By Way of France Jane Wins Out A Ride with Billy HOLLYWOOD SUCCESSS AND INTERNATIONAL FAME, 1915--1930 The Heart That Has Truly Loved Play for Mr. Fairbanks All Men Are Equal Where Does Annie Belong? The Moving Pictures of Blinkville My First Memories of Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD, 1931--1944 Winkie Boy Suggestion for Keaton Story Evelina Women in Uniform Aunt Anita's Romances and Friendships Mary Anita Loos NEW YORK AT LAST, 1944--1981 It Pays to Advertise One More Heroine Mr. Sherard Travels with Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos Anita Loos's Memorial Service, August 27, 1981 Notes Works by Anita Loos Acknowledgments Index

“Long before Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones became the prototype for the hapless-career-girl heroine, Anita Loos regaled readers with her fabulous, far more entertaining, and unselfconscious cosmopolitan dames. This collection of Loos’s film treatments and stories, as well as biographical pieces, is an insightful chronicle of her career.”

Cari Beauchamp is the author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (California, 1998) and Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival (1992). Mary Anita Loos is the author of A Pride of Lovers (1981), The Barstow Legend (1978), Belinda (1976), and The Beggars Are Coming (1974).

• Plates follow page Foreword Mary Anita Loos Introduction Cari Beauchamp ANITA LOOS AND HER STORIES FROM SAN DIEGO, 1888--1915 The School of Acting The Highbrow Plagiarism The Man Who Looked Up By Way of France Jane Wins Out A Ride with Billy HOLLYWOOD SUCCESSS AND INTERNATIONAL FAME, 1915--1930 The Heart That Has Truly Loved Play for Mr. Fairbanks All Men Are Equal Where Does Annie Belong? The Moving Pictures of Blinkville My First Memories of Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD, 1931--1944 Winkie Boy Suggestion for Keaton Story Evelina Women in Uniform Aunt Anita's Romances and Friendships Mary Anita Loos NEW YORK AT LAST, 1944--1981 It Pays to Advertise One More Heroine Mr. Sherard Travels with Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos Anita Loos's Memorial Service, August 27, 1981 Notes Works by Anita Loos Acknowledgments Index

“Long before Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones became the prototype for the hapless-career-girl heroine, Anita Loos regaled readers with her fabulous, far more entertaining, and unselfconscious cosmopolitan dames. This collection of Loos’s film treatments and stories, as well as biographical pieces, is an insightful chronicle of her career.”

Cari Beauchamp is the author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood (California, 1998) and Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival (1992). Mary Anita Loos is the author of A Pride of Lovers (1981), The Barstow Legend (1978), Belinda (1976), and The Beggars Are Coming (1974).

• Plates follow page Foreword Mary Anita Loos Introduction Cari Beauchamp ANITA LOOS AND HER STORIES FROM SAN DIEGO, 1888--1915 The School of Acting The Highbrow Plagiarism The Man Who Looked Up By Way of France Jane Wins Out A Ride with Billy HOLLYWOOD SUCCESSS AND INTERNATIONAL FAME, 1915--1930 The Heart That Has Truly Loved Play for Mr. Fairbanks All Men Are Equal Where Does Annie Belong? The Moving Pictures of Blinkville My First Memories of Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD, 1931--1944 Winkie Boy Suggestion for Keaton Story Evelina Women in Uniform Aunt Anita's Romances and Friendships Mary Anita Loos NEW YORK AT LAST, 1944--1981 It Pays to Advertise One More Heroine Mr. Sherard Travels with Aunt Anita Mary Anita Loos Anita Loos's Memorial Service, August 27, 1981 Notes Works by Anita Loos Acknowledgments Index

“Long before Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones became the prototype for the hapless-career-girl heroine, Anita Loos regaled readers with her fabulous, far more entertaining, and unselfconscious cosmopolitan dames. This collection of Loos’s film treatments and stories, as well as biographical pieces, is an insightful chronicle of her career.”