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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
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Film Actor
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Screenwriter
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Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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