Lorelei Lee, an attractive gold-digger of the Roaring Twenties, describes her trip to Europe, her many suitors, her brief film career, and the adventures of her best friend, Dorothy

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

Humor & Entertainment

Loos, Anita

Humor

Penguin??Books

The further adventures of Lorelei Lee - home to marry a millionaire and become a movie star. This book provides an example of comic American vernacular writing of this era.

But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Penguin Group USA

“Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.” Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde Lorelei Lee in the flapper days of 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei and her best friend, Dorothy, from Hollywood to Manhattan to Paris and London, pursued by eager suitors all the while. In “the Central of Europe,” with a new diamond tiara in her handbag, Lorelei meets a traveling American millionaire who just might be the one. She retires her diary, but not for long, because, as she writes in the opening pages of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, “it is bright ideas that keep the home fires burning, and prevent a divorce from taking all of the bloom off Romance.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Classics

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Fate Keeps On Happening

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: THE ILLUMINATING DIARY OF A PROFESSIONAL LADY (PICADOR)

Humor & Satire

Picador

Kiss Hollywood Good-By

Kiss Hollywood Good-by

Movies

Ballantine Books, a Divison of Random House

Two classic books in one. Gentlemen prefer Blondes and......But gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Vintage

Features the best of Loos's short pieces never before collected and new, previously unpublished pieces that include the Lorelei Lee stories and satires and sketches

Fate Keeps on Happening: Adventures of Lorelei Lee and Other Writings

Dodd, Mead

The celebrated author shares candid photographs of great and famous people she has known over the past eighty years and anecdotes about friends, admirers, and fawners and days and nights in the capitals of the world

Cast of Thousands

Biographies & Memoirs

Grosset & Dunlop

Set during the Roaring Twenties, this witty social satire of the Jazz Age was a runaway bestseller in 1925. Written in diary form, the story follows the escapades of gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee and her best friend, Dorothy, from New York to Europe. Inspired by literary critic H. L. Mencken's awestruck reaction to a beautiful blonde woman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was originally written by Hollywood silent-era screenwriter Anita Loos as a series of short stories in Harper's Bazaar. The book has inspired many adaptations for stage and screen, its most famous being the 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe, in which she sang "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Dover Publications

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