![]() ![]() Paramount had released the rights in exchange for a percentage of the profits from the sale to another film company, conditional upon the sale taking place within two years of the show's opening. ![]() Loos again wrote about her heroines in the novellas Why Not Brunette and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.Īn Aug 1951 DV news item reported that the musical comedy's producers, Herman Levin and Oliver Smith, would "have to scare up a deal for sale of film rights by 17 Nov or face the prospect" of the rights reverting to Paramount, which had produced a 1928 film based on the Loos novella. After being published in book form as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, the material was turned into a dramatic play by Loos and her husband, John Emerson (New York, ). Anita Loos's popular novella depicting the adventures of "Lorelei Lee" and "Dorothy Shaw" first appeared as a serial in Harper's Bazaar (Mar-Aug 1925) under the title The Diary of a Hasty Traveler. ![]()
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