Kiss Hollywood Goodbye

Résumé : For nearly all of her eighty years, Anita Loos - a worldly connoisseur of good talk, fine clothes, fun places, and "the kept American male" - has been writing famous scenarios and making famous friends. Her early years were spent in Hollywood, churning out plots and subtitles for the silent films of D.W. Griffith. She took herself to New York, Palm Beach, and the capitals of Europe, where, as the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, she enjoyed great celebrity in literary and social circles. By 1931, however, she was back in Hollywood consolidating the future of the talkies. Kiss Hollywood Goodbye is an insight into the history of American movie-making through the irreverent (and decidedly female) lens of one of the highest paid screenwriters of the time. And there's some good gossip too.