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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 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...
Jan 4, 2020 · Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968, Lesbians -- United States -- Biography, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, Lesbians, Authors, American, United States, Lesbian authors -- United States -- Personal narratives Publisher New York : Arno Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive ...
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 ...
Apr 11, 2011 · Archways of life. by. Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968. Publication date. 1921. Publisher. New York, Moffat, Yard and company. Collection. library_of_congress; americana.
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.
Abstract: Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968) was a novelist, playwright, poet, Hollywood scriptwriter, and a prominent member of gay society in New York and Hollywood. The Mercedes de Acosta papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera documenting her professional and personal life.
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.
Oct 25, 2005 · 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.
de acosta, mercedes (1893–1968) Mercedes de Acosta was born in New York City on March 1, 1893 into an immigrant family of means. The youngest of eight children, she became a substitute for her mother’s desire for a son and grew up believing herself to be a boy.
