Cari Beauchamp In 2003 came "Anita Loos Rediscovered", which was edited and annotated by Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos (Anita Loos' niece). Published by University of California Press, the book compiles samples of Loos's previously unpublished work as well as the personal life and work of novelist, screenwriter, and playwright [ author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" as well as several other books and dozens of plays and screenplays. In 2006, "University of California Press" released "Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s" by Valeria Belletti, edited and annotated by Beauchamp, with a foreword by
Anita Loos ""Blondes"" would see three more printings sell through by year's end, and 20 in its first decade. The little book would see 85 editions in the years to come and eventually be translated into 14 languages, including Chinese. When asked who the models for her characters, Loos would almost always say they were composites of various people, but when pressed, admitted that toothless flirt Sir Francis Beekman was modeled after writer Joseph Hergesheimer and producer Jesse L. Lasky. Dorothy Shaw was modeled after herself and Constance Talmadge, and Lorelei herself most closely resembled acquisitive Ziegfeld showgirl, Lillian Lorraine, who was