Special Screening: Anita Loos
October 23, 2003
Smart
and witty, Anita Loos was one of Hollywood’s most beloved
and prolific screenwriters, creating unforgettable roles for such
stars as Mary Pickford, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Audrey Hepburn.
On October 23, author Cari Beauchamp introduces a special screening
of the pre-Code comedy Red-Headed Woman (1932), a classic
Harlow/ Loos collaboration, and discusses and signs copies of her
new book Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction
by Anita Loos, edited and annotated by Beauchamp and Mary Anita
Loos (University of California Press, 2003).
Organized by Mary Lea Bandy, Chief
Curator, and Natalie Hirniak, Manager, Department of Film and
Media. 
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1932. USA. Directed by Jack Conway. Screenplay by Anita Loos. With
Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone. Harlow
is at her comic best in this sexually frank pre-Code classic, playing
a gold-digging schemer who causes divorce and general mayhem by
seducing her married boss. Print courtesy Warner Bros., Los Angeles.
80 min.
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