Portrait of US film actress Anita Loos 1926 by Nickolas Muray 1892-1965. This is plate LII from a vintage copy of Masterpieces of Photography by F C Tilney 1926.

Corinne Anita Loos 1889-1981 was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her on the payroll at Triangle Film Corporation. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, "Gentleman Prefer Blondes", and her 1951Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella "Gigi".


Nickolas Muray (born Miklos Mandl) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic sabre fencer. Muray was born in Hungary, and was Jewish. His father Samu Mandl was a postal worker, and his mother Klara Lovit was a homemaker. In 1894 his family moved to Budapest. He attended a graphic arts school in Budapest where he studied lithography, photoengraving, and photography. After earning an International Engraver's Certificate, Muray took a three-year course in color photoengraving in Berlin, where, among other things, he learned to make color filters. At the end of his course he went to work for the publishing company Ullstein.

In 1913 Muray left Europe for New York where he found work as a colour printer, opening his own studio in 1920. He soon became one of the most important photographers in New York being commissioned by Vanity Fair for portraits, fashion and advertising work. One of his best known portraits is that of Frida Kahlo with whom he had a ten year long affair. He was a national champion at fencing and represented the USA at the 1928 and 1931 Olympics.



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