They also wrote two books, Breaking Into the Movies (1919) and How to Write Photoplays (1921), and on her own Loos wrote two plays for Broadway, The Whole Town’s Talking (filmed 1926) and The Fall of Eve (filmed 1929). In 1919 Loos married writer-director John Emerson, a frequent collaborator, and in New York City they began writing and producing their own films, notably A Virtuous Vamp (1919), The Perfect Woman (1920), Dangerous Business (1920), Polly of the Follies (1922), and Learning to Love (1925). His Picture in the Paper (1916), a Douglas Fairbanks film, signaled a new departure in its use of discursive and witty titles, and its success convinced Griffith to let Loos write titles for his epic Intolerance (1916) and many others. By the age of 20 Loos was a professional screenwriter, and she eventually worked on more than 60 silent films. Griffith and starred Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore. The film of her first scenario, The New York Hat, was produced in 1912 by D.W. At an early age she also began contributing sketches and articles to various periodicals.
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