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Although it has been argued that an intimate relationship between them cannot be proved, de Acosta states they were lovers. Contrary to legend, she did not do so in her memoir. In 1959, when she was destitute, de Acosta sold her papers to the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia and claims to have reluctantly included romantic letters ...
- March 1, 1892, New York City, US
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- May 9, 1968 (aged 76), New York City, US
Mar 2, 2024 · David Barnett. Sat 2 Mar 2024 07.38 EST. 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...
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...
Feb 28, 2024 · 2024. February. 28. Who were the lovers of the Golden Age sapphic icon Mercedes de Acosta? In this week’s DIVA Dating Digest, we take a look at the relationships of the infamous American poet and playwright. BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGES BY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
Sep 6, 2023 · In this exclusive excerpt from her new biography of the silent star, author Lois Banner explores the period in the early 1930s when Garbo was entangled with both the acting coach Salka Viertel and...
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Aug 21, 1994 · An aristocratic woman of Cuban descent who affected an exotic piratical look, de Acosta compiled a remarkable dossier of lovers, among them Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne and Marlene...
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.
