What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Screenwriter and Novelist                          

Selected Works:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady - 1926
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - 1928
A Mouse is Born - 1951
No Mother to Guide Her - 1961
Fate Keeps On Happening: Adventures Of Lorelei Lee And Other Writings - 1984

Nonfiction:

With John Emerson How to Write Photoplays NY - 1920
With John Emerson. Breaking Into the Movies - 1921
"This Brunette Prefers Work", Woman's Home Companion, 83 - March 1956
A Girl Like I - 1966
With Helen Hayes. Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now - 1972
Kiss Hollywood Good-by - 1974
Cast of Thousands: a pictorial memoir of the most glittering stars of Hollywood - 1977
The Talmadge Girls - 1978

Broadway Credits:

Lorelei - 1974
The King's Mare - 1967
Chéri - 1959
Gigi - 1951
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1949
Happy Birthday - 1946
The Social Register - 1931
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1926
The Fall of Eve - 1925
The Whole Town's Talking - 1923

Film Credits:

My Baby - 1912; writer
The Musketeers of Pig Alley - 1912; writer
The New York Hat - 1912; writer
A Narrow Escape - 1913; scenario
The Wedding Gown - 1913; scenario
His Hoodoo - 1913; scenario; story "The Making of a Masher"
Pa Says - 1913; story "The Queen of the Carnival"
A Cure for Suffragettes - 1913; story
A Fallen Hero - 1913; story
A Horse on Bill - 1913; story
Binks' Vacation - 1913; story
Highbrow Love - 1913; story
How the Day Was Saved - 1913; story
Oh, Sammy! - 1913; story
The Hicksville Epicure - 1913; story
The Power of the Camera - 1913; story
The Suicide Pact - 1913; story
His Awful Vengeance - 1913; writer
The Lady in Black - 1913; writer
The Mistake - 1913; writer
The Telephone Girl and the Lady - 1913; writer
The Widow's Kids - 1913; writer
The Sisters - 1914/I; scenario
A Lesson in Mechanics - 1914; scenario
Nearly a Burglar's Bride - 1914; scenario
Some Bull's Daughter - 1914; scenario
The Deceiver - 1914; scenario
The Road to Plaindale - 1914; scenario
The Saving Grace - 1914; scenario
The Saving Presence - 1914; scenario
A Corner in Hats - 1914; story
A Flurry in Art - 1914; story
Gentleman or Thief - 1914; story
Nell's Eugenic Wedding - 1914; story
The Fatal Dress Suit - 1914; story
The Man on the Couch - 1914; story
The Million Dollar Bride - 1914; story
The Gangsters of New York - 1914; uncredited
A Bunch of Flowers - 1914; writer
Billy's Rival - 1914; writer
For Her Father's Sins - 1914; writer
Izzy and His Rival - 1914; writer
The Girl in the Shack - 1914; writer
The Hunchback - 1914; writer
The Last Drink of Whiskey - 1914; writer
The White Slave Catchers - 1914; writer
When the Road Parts - 1914; writer
A Ten-Cent Adventure - 1915; scenario
Mixed Values - 1915; scenario
The Deacon's Whiskers - 1915; scenario
The Lost House - 1915; scenario
The Fatal Finger Prints - 1915; writer
Stranded - 1916/I; writer
Macbeth - 1916; intertitles
A Calico Vampire - 1916; scenario
Laundry Liz - 1916; scenario
The French Milliner - 1916; scenario
The Americano - 1916; scenario; titles
The Wharf Rat - 1916; screenplay; story
A Corner in Cotton - 1916; story
American Aristocracy - 1916; story
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages - 1916; titles
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish - 1916; titles
A Wild Girl of the Sierras - 1916; writer
His Picture in the Papers - 1916; writer
The Children Pay - 1916; writer
The Half-Breed - 1916; writer
The Little Liar - 1916; writer
The Matrimaniac - 1916; writer
The Social Secretary - 1916; writer
In Again, Out Again - 1917/II; writer
A Daughter of the Poor - 1917; writer
Down to Earth - 1917; writer
Reaching for the Moon - 1917; writer
Wild and Woolly - 1917; writer
Good-Bye, Bill - 1918; screenplay; producer; story Gosh Darn the Kaiser
Hit-the-Trail Holliday - 1918; writer
Let's Get a Divorce - 1918; writer
Come on In - 1918; writer; producer
A Virtuous Vamp - 1919; scenario
A Temperamental Wife - 1919; scenario; producer
Oh, You Women! - 1919; scenario; story
Under the Top - 1919; story
Getting Mary Married - 1919; writer
The Isle of Conquest - 1919; writer
The Branded Woman - 1920; adaptation
Dangerous Business - 1920; producer; writer
Two Weeks - 1920; scenario
The Perfect Woman - 1920; screenplay; story
The Love Expert - 1920; writer; producer
In Search of a Sinner - 1920; writer; producer; uncredited
Woman's Place - 1921; story
Mama's Affair - 1921; writer
Polly of the Follies - 1922; screenplay; story
Red Hot Romance - 1922; screenplay; story; executive producer
Dulcy - 1923; writer
Three Miles Out - 1924; writer
Learning to Love - 1925; screenplay; story
The Whole Town's Talking - 1926; play
Stranded - 1927; story
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1928; novel; screenplay; titles
The Fall of Eve - 1929; story
Ex-Bad Boy - 1931; story "The Whole Town's Talking"
The Struggle - 1931; writer
Blondie of the Follies - 1932; dialogue
Red-Headed Woman - 1932; writer
Hold Your Man - 1933; screenplay; story
Midnight Mary - 1933; story
The Barbarian - 1933; writer
The Girl from Missouri - 1934; original screenplay
The Cat and the Fiddle - 1934; screenplay contributor; uncredited
The Social Register - 1934; story
Biography of a Bachelor Girl - 1935; writer
Riffraff - 1936; screenplay
San Francisco - 1936; writer
Saratoga - 1937; screenplay; story
Mama Steps Out - 1937; writer
The Cowboy and the Lady - 1938; contributing writer; uncredited
Another Thin Man - 1939; contributing writer; uncredited
The Women - 1939; screenplay
Babes in Arms - 1939; uncredited
Strange Cargo - 1940; adaptation; uncredited
Susan and God - 1940; screenplay
Blossoms in the Dust - 1941; screenplay
When Ladies Meet - 1941; screenplay
They Met in Bombay - 1941; writer
I Married an Angel - 1942; screenplay
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1945 uncredited
The Buick Circus Hour - 1952; teleplays
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1953; play
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes - 1955; novel "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"
Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" - 1956; writer.                          

Mother Minerva Smith
Father  R. Beers Loos, three children.
First husband Frank Pallma, Jr. - 1915–1919 - divorced
Second husband John Emerson - 1919–1956.