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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Memoirist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
Hollywood
Produce
Land
Actually
Heyday
Reflected
Sexual
Climate

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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