Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional...

baseball player Marta Acosta, American fiction writer Martha Acosta (contemporary), Peruvian politician and congresswoman Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), Spanish-American...

sister Mercedes de Acosta, a lover of movie star Greta Garbo, was an author, a scriptwriter, and social critic. Another sister, Aida de Acosta, became...

2019. "Mercedes de Acosta, 75, Dies; Poet, Playwright and Scenarist" (PDF). The New York Times. 10 May 1968. Retrieved 22 May 2019. "MISS DE ACOSTA TO WED...

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playwright Mercedes de Acosta while working for Republic Pictures in Los Angeles. Their affair was intense, with Munson once writing to Acosta in a letter:...

and acknowledged lesbian Mercedes de Acosta, whom she met through Salka Viertel, and, according to Garbo's and de Acosta's biographers, began a sporadic...

and playwright Mercedes de Acosta, as documented in numerous revealing letters they wrote to each other. In one, Duncan wrote, "Mercedes, lead me with...

were the writers and socialites Mercedes de Acosta and Rita de Acosta Lydig. On June 27, 1903, in Paris, when Acosta was nineteen, Brazilian pioneer aviator...

Alice Robinson, one of Barney's affairs. Murphy was also friends with Mercedes de Acosta, Madge Garland, Edmund Wilson and Dorothy Parker. Another friend,...

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marquess of Forbin-la Barben, she was the lover of Isabel Pell and Mercedes de Acosta. Claire Charles-Roux was born on 10 April 1908 in Avignon, the daughter...

group of lesbian and bisexual woman writers and actresses, such as Mercedes de Acosta and Tallulah Bankhead, and their relationships in celebrity circles...

Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 145. In any case, by 1943 Mercedes had jumped ship and become an...

women: New York intellectual Esther Murphy Strachey, writer-feminist Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue fashion editor Madge Garland. Laffan had a tangential...

revealed that Mercedes de Acosta's sister Maria Chandler was his godmother; Garbo had cut Mercedes de Acosta off after the publication of de Acosta's tell-all...

fund plays by Mercedes de Acosta. DeLamar also donated some of her land in Palm Beach, Florida to the Audubon Society in the 1960s. DeLamar was born April...

Ethiopian-American fashion designer and entrepreneur Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), writer, socialite Rita de Acosta Lydig (1876–1929), socialite Caroline Webster...

and 1926, Le Gallienne had relationships with writer and socialite Mercedes de Acosta and scenic designer Gladys Calthrop, as well as a brief affair with...

2006. Schanke, Robert A. (2004). That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2579-9. Aldrich,...

American supporter was Rita de Acosta Lydig who ordered dozens of dresses at a time. According to her sister Mercedes de Acosta, "Rita designed most of her...

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Hattie McDaniel, Beatrice Lillie, Alla Nazimova, Blyth Daly, writers Mercedes de Acosta and Eva Le Gallienne, and singer Billie Holiday. Actress Patsy Kelly...

of Greece Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta (Penguin Random House, 1994; Pimlico, 1995) Royal Orders: Honours...

Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba (for eight years) and Mercedes de Acosta. Elsa Maxwell described Fellowes-Gordon as "A tall, stunning girl...

includes actress Eva Le Gallienne, film director Dorothy Arzner, writer Mercedes de Acosta, and Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly Wilde. Bridget Bate Tichenor, a Magic...

early 1930s, Dietrich also had an affair with Cuban-American writer Mercedes de Acosta, who claimed to also be Greta Garbo's lover. Sewing circle was a phrase...

Schanke, Robert A. (May 10, 2004). That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0809325799. Robbins...

of Miss Porter’s and a member of the Junior League, and her lover Mercedes de Acosta, Clifton Webb, Gertrude Lawrence, Guthrie McClintic and his wife Katharine...

hijacking of the movement. Lowell has been linked romantically to writer Mercedes de Acosta, but the only evidence of any contact between them is a brief correspondence...