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Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova , Isadora Duncan , Eva Le Gallienne , and Marlene ...
Mar 2, 2024 · Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs with the 20th century’s most famous women. An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene...
Oct 5, 2023 · October 05, 2023. Story of a pioneering queer writer's audacious love life is preserved in the Rosenbach collection. Mercedes de Acosta is best known for her candid 1960 memoir that angered...
Mar 17, 2017 · Today we remember Mercedes De Acosta, a poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and costume designer, who remains known chiefly as the lover of some of the most famous women of the 20th...
Jul 3, 2015 · Mercedes de Acosta was born in New York in 1893, one of eight children in a rich Spanish-Cuban family. Her older sister Rita (profiled in an earlier post) became a prominent socialite, art patron, and fashion icon whose circle of friends included Degas, Rodin, Tolstoy, Bernhardt, Debussy, and Sargent. Rita’s wardrobe became the start of the ...
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March 01, 1893. Died. May 09, 1968. Genre. Poetry, Memoir. edit data. Though she was the author of books of prose, collections of poems, and scripts, Mercedes de Acosta is rarely remembered for her writing. She is, instead, celebrated as a passionate lover who had affairs with some of the most intriguing and beautiful women of her time.
Overview. In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity.
