It seems significant that we never know the real first name of this character who is so expert at manipulating, concealing and using her identity for some highly focused purposes. The Harper’s Bazaar serial was known as the ‘Lorelei’ stories from the heroine’s first name – though as a matter of fact ‘Lorelei’ admits in the novel that this is not her real name, but only one she adopted at a ‘gentleman’s’ suggestion when she worked in films. The novel was greeted with similar enthusiasm in the UK after its publication by Jonathan Cape in 1926 (I read Cape’s pictured Two Shilling Florin Books re-issue of 1933).
So, I’m going to review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes now so that I can in due course review ‘Tackline’ ‘s (much less famous) wartime parody titled You Met Such Nice Girls in the Wrens (Robert Hale, London, 1943).Īnita Loos’ novel is very well-known and quickly became a best-seller in the US after its publication by Boni & Liveright in 1925 (in fact, it had already been avidly read in its original serial publication in Harper’s Bazaar). I had to read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I started reading what I suspected was a parody of it, but couldn’t be sure because I had never read the original.
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