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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

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