Reflections

This book is at least as much about author Anita Loos, an early Hollywood screenwriter who wrote scripts for some of the silent movies that stared the Talmadge sisters, as it is about those sisters themselves, but that suited me fine. It was fun to read gossip about Eleanor Roosevelt (who knew she had it in her?) and about the first time Loos and the sisters saw Coco Channel skirts in Paris (as soon as she got to their hotel Loos sent all her skirts out to be hemmed much shorter.) The book includes the racy but sweet (in the way only old movies can be) script for The Virtuous Vamp, written by Loos and starring Constance Talmadge