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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 · S he was the “furious lesbian” who had affairs with some of the most famous women of the jazz age, prompting the writer and wit Alice B Toklas to remark of Mercedes de Acosta: “Say what you...
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...
Oct 5, 2023 · Mercedes de Acosta is best known for her candid 1960 memoir that angered her famous exes, like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich
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 ...
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.
Many theatre scholars are familiar with the name Mercedes de Acosta but do not know the nature of her connection to the theatre—her close ties to notable actresses and the plays that she wrote. Robert A. Schanke has published two books that hope to clarify de Acosta's place in theatre history.
Jan 16, 2013 · The stars are three women: Esther Murphy, a product of New York high society who wrote madly but could never finish a book; Mercedes de Acosta, an insatiable collector and writer infatuated...
Robert A. Schanke's two-book offering in the Theater in the Americas Series is a tribute to the life and work of Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), an avowed lesbian playwright, novelist, and poet who during her lifetime was vilified as a calculating seductress and who died penniless and forgotten.
May 10, 2004 · With “That Furious Lesbian” Schanke at last establishes Mercedes de Acosta’s rightful place as a pioneer—and indeed a champion—in the early struggle for lesbian rights in this country.
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