Curiosidades

Her brother founded the Blue Cross health insurance company.

Was notoriously sketchy on the topic of her age, famously claiming that she began working as a Hollywood writer at the age of 12. She was at least twice this age.

Started as a writer for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. her first full film screenplay was The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) starring Lillian Gish.

By the end of the 1920's, Anita Loos was personal assistant of Richard Rubin, vice-president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The Ross-Loos Medical Group was created in Los Angeles in 1929 by two physicians, one being Donald E. Ross and the other being Loos' older brother H. Clifford Loos. This was the first Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in America, with a plan consisting of monthly payments which assured benefits of medical and hospital care to over two thousand employees of Los Angeles County and the Department of Water and Power and their families.

Aunt of Mary Loos.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 511-512. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).