Rudy Vallée and 1940s, and by the time he began working with Preston Sturges in the 1940s, he had become a successful comedic supporting player. He appeared opposite Claudette Colbert in Sturges's 1942 screwball comedy "The Palm Beach Story". Other films in which he appeared include "I Remember Mama", "Unfaithfully Yours" and "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer". In 1955, Vallée was featured in "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", co-starring Jane Russell, Alan Young, and Jeanne Crain. The production was filmed on location in Paris. The film was based on the Anita Loos novel that was a sequel to her acclaimed "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". "Gentlemen
Anita Loos "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", now lost, was released in 1928, starring Ruth Taylor (as Lorelei Lee), who took her role so seriously that as soon as the film was finished she married a millionaire named Paul Zuckerman and never worked again. From 1927 to 1929, Loos and Emerson traveled extensively, which was hard on Loos' health. All their winters were spent in Palm Beach, where Emerson would indulge in social climbing. There Loos met Wilson Mizner, a witty and charming real estate speculator and in some quarters – confidence man. Though they saw each other every day, the relationship, what there