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Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) was a Cuban-American poet, playwright, and novelist. Four of de Acosta’s plays were produced, and she published a novel and three volumes of poetry.
Mercedes de Acosta (New York, 1892. március 1. – New York, 1968. május 9.) amerikai költőnő, drámaíró, ruhatervező és társasági ember. Több hollywoodi személyiséggel folytatott leszbikus kapcsolata közül a Marlene Dietrich-hel való a legismertebb, de Greta Garbo, Alla Nazimova, Tamara Karszavina, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Ona Munson, Adele Astaire ...
3 de jul. de 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 Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 ...
4 de ene. de 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 inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive ...
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. In her 1960 autobiography, Here Lies the Heart, she claimed to have been intimate with Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich , Alice B. Toklas, Marie Laurencin, Eva Le Gallienne, Malvina Hoffman, Adele Astaire and Greta Garbo.
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. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, "Women in ...
