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20 de may. de 2021 · 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.
24 de jun. de 2004 · De Acosta’s mother, the romantic Micaela, an orphaned Spanish heiress living in New York, married him when she was 16. The couple subsequently had eight children, of whom Mercedes was the last. Despite her parents’ fanatical Roman Catholicism, the young de Acosta grew up a pampered member of New York high society.
Mercedes de Acosta (Nueva York, 1 de marzo de 1893-ibídem, 9 de mayo de 1968) fue una poetisa estadounidense que además escribió obras de teatro y diseñó ropa. Se la conoce por sus relaciones románticas con Greta Garbo, Tamara Karsavina, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Maude Adams, Ona Munson («Belle Watling» en ...
27 de mar. de 2019 · Llegaron a apodarla “la furiosa lesbiana”. Mercedes de Acosta, escritora y ‘socialité’ estadounidense de origen español, fue siempre un alma errante y solitaria. “He vivido en muchos países (…) y podría decir que me he sentido sola en todos ellos”, llegó a afirmar en sus memorias. Y aunque escribió novela, poesía y teatro, y fue parte activa de la vanguardia cultural ...
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.
The author illustrates that Mercedes de Acosta was a devotee of the theatre throughout her lifetime and that she developed relationships with some of the most important performers of her day: dancers Tamara Karsavina and Isadora Duncan, whose autobiography she helped edit and helped ensure its publication in 1927; and actresses Alla Nazimova, Hope Williams, and Eva Le Gallienne, for whom she ...
De Acosta, the daughter of affluent Cuban immigrants, grew up in New York where, in the 1920s, she was a figure in both the city’s “high society” and its drag clubs and speakeasies. “These were years guided by the spirit. Though she was the author of books of prose, collections of poems, and scripts, Mercedes de Acosta is rarely ...
