Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and but Gentlemen Marry Brunettes : The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

by Loos, Anita; Barton, Ralph; Barreca, Regina

• ISBN13: 9780141180694
• ISBN10: 0141180692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The incomparable adventures of Lorelei Lee, a little girl from Little Rock who takes the world by storm. Anita Loos first published the diaries of the ultimate gold-digging blonde in the flapper days of 1925. Now GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES and its brunette sequel are together at last in a two-in-one volume, complete with the original hilarious Ralph Barton illustrations throughout.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	VII	(18)
Regina Barreca
Suggestions for Further Reading	XXV	(4)
Anita Loos: A Chronology	XXIX	(6)
A Note on the Text	XXXV	(2)
"The Biography of a Book"	XXXVII
Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1	(124)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes	125