Anita Loos
Corinne Anita Loos 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, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and her 1951 Broadway adaptation of Colette's novella Gigi.
26 April 1889
Born on the same birth date (26 April 1889): Ludwig Wittgenstein
Born on the same birth day (26 April): Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick • Bernie Brillstein • Bill Wennington • Douglas Sirk • Ernst Felle • Gerard Cafesjian • Jeanne Sauvé • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Paul Almond • Ralph Coates • Roxana Saberi • Rudolf Hess • Tionne Watkins
Born in the same month (April 1889): A. Philip Randolph • Adrian Boult • António de Oliveira Salazar • Charlie Chaplin • Jessie Street • K. B. Hedgewar • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Makhanlal Chaturvedi • Marcel Boussac • Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland • Stafford Cripps • Thomas Hart Benton (painter)