Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Name: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Anita Loos
ISBN: 9798228749948

Author: Anita Loos

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Unabridged: 3 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 12/02/2025

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

100 years ago and before there were Instagram Influencers, there was Lorelei Lee, a wily blonde from Little Rock, Arkansas, and her BFF Dorothy, who took New York and Europe by storm in 1925, reporting in her diary every detail of their quest to collect the greatest trove of jewels, gowns, men, and adventures imaginable.In her “Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady,” Lorelei hopes you will enjoy this rendition of her tales of conquest and coquetry, complete with musical interludes and surprising sound effects on the 100th Anniversary of its publication.

About Anita Loos

Anita Loos (1893–1981) was born in California. She was a child prodigy who began writing movie scripts at the age of twelve and later supplied film scenarios for D. W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. First published in 1925, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a bestseller in thirteen languages and was followed by its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Anita Loos was the author of the novels A Mouse is Born and No Mother to Guide Her and two volumes of autobiography, A Girl Like I and Kiss Hollywood Goodbye.

About Kitty Hendrix

Kitty Hendrix is from Carmel, California, and has been a professional actor and singer since childhood. She moved to New York City after college and found jobs singing in concert venues, cabarets, comedy clubs, and recording studios. She also acted in theater productions, originating more than twenty leading roles; appeared in film and television; and was a founding producer of Legacy Stage Ensemble, a theater company dedicated to the exploration of generational and social issues. Recording audiobooks since 2013 at her studio in NYC and working in nearly every genre, Kitty has consistently received excellent reviews for her work from AudioFile magazine and others. In 2018 Kitty was nominated as a finalist for an Audie Award for her narration of Daisy Miller by Henry James. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on March 05, 2014

March 5th Today I went to a place called Goodreads, it is a kind of litrary salo which is useful for a girl that wants to improve her mind like I do. So I wondered how I would be a social success there it is quite different from New York but luckily I met a gentleman called Mr. Paul Bryant who took......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on September 14, 2016

Here is what Edith Wharton called the Great American Novel, and when it showed up on the Guardian's Top 100 English Novels list it was suggested that perhaps she was being sarcastic. But when one nominates the Great American Novel, one is defining America at least as much as the Novel, yes? And I'm......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 21, 2013

Driving to school to pick up Georgia only 45 minutes ago! (how up to the minute is this review?), on the Radio is "Brain of Britain 2013", a general knowledge contest. One of the questions : Who wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Contestant ponders, then says "Henry James" Now, wouldn't that have been some......more