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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
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Mount Shasta
California
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Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
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On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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Memory is more indelible than ink.
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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