Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of April 26th
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It is the 116th day of the year, leaving 249 days remaining in 2022.
Loos told her stories as one of the early screenwriters for films back in the silent era. She was known for her expressive and witty "intertitles" -- cards and printed words that forwarded the action in silent films.
She was the first woman writer to be hired by the legendary filmmaker D.W. Griffith. He produced her script, The New York Hat, into the 1912 movie of the same name, starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and an uncredited Lillian Gish.
Loos is credited with finding and writing the persona of the early film star, Douglas Fairbanks. Her wry and entertaining use of intertitles and subtitles reached its high point in the film His Picture in the Papers, which gave Fairbanks his first starring role.
In 1925, she published her first novel, Gentleman Prefers Blondes, a comedic satire on the state of relations between men and women. She got the idea for the work while on a train ride with several friends, including the writer H.L. Mencken, whom she watched closely as he tried to attract the attention of a young blonde woman.
During her days in Hollwood, Loos wrote more than 150 movie scripts. She also wrote the adaptation of Gigi for the theater. Its opening on Broadway in 1951, with Audrey Hepburn in the title role, helped make her a star.
Loos died in 1981 in New York.
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