Mary Loos Mary Loos Mary Loos (May 6, 1910 – October 11, 2004) was an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She was occasionally credited under her full name, Mary Anita Loos. Born in San Diego, she was the daughter of Dr. Clifford Loos, co-founder of the Ross-Loos Medical Clinic and the Ross-Loos Medical Group, the first Health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States. She was the niece of screenwriter Anita Loos. She was both co-creator and one of the writers for "Yancy Derringer" (1958-1959), an American Western TV series. Mary Loos died in Monterey, California, aged 94, due to complications following
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown in color with Dean Martin in his first semi-serious role - which he's done fabulously since - and the publicity alone would have pulled it off. Or we should have had another director...Norman still got his slapstick ending, but it just seemed old fashioned without color. The picture was neither fish nor fowl, but I still liked it.". Despite her honest assessment of the movie, Jane considered "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown," along with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as the two favorite films of her career . "Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" bombed when it was released in the fall of 1957 and