Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel) first film version, which is now lost, was released in 1928 and starred Ruth Taylor and Alice White. Better known is the 1953 film version of the musical, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The novel's characters were licensed for use in a daily newspaper comic strip series that ran from April to September 1926. The comic strip was not an adaptation of the novel, but used the novel's characters in new gag situations. Although the writing was credited to Loos, it was presumably ghosted by the artists, Virginia Huget and Phil Cook. The original series was
Emmaline Henry in her teens. She went to Hollywood in the early 1950s and found her way into the choruses of several musicals. Producers began noticing, however, that her comic skills were superior to her singing. She toured in musicals like "Top Banana," and later appeared in the film version of the show. She succeeded Carol Channing in the play "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Henry made her television debut in a 1955 episode of the ZIV production, "I Led Three Lives". This was followed by appearances in another ZIV TV show, "Highway Patrol". She appeared on "The Red Skelton Show" in 1961 and,