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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...
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  • and Merche. Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (1880–1904), Spanish royal Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), American poet and socialite Mercedes Bass, American...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • baseball player Marta Acosta, American fiction writer Martha Acosta (contemporary), Peruvian politician and congresswoman Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), Spanish-American...
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  • 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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    Garbo, Cecil Beaton, and Mercedes de Acosta, Random House, 1994. Schanke (2006) Barnett, David (2024-03-02). "Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs...
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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:...
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    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...
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    Taisy Darling) Helen Moller nude dancers (circa 1918) Mercedes de Acosta (after 1919) Mercedes de Acosta (1919 or 1920) Thelma Given (1919) Ann Murdock with...
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    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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    group of lesbian and bisexual woman writers and actresses, such as Mercedes de Acosta and Tallulah Bankhead, and their relationships in celebrity circles...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    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...
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    women: New York intellectual Esther Murphy Strachey, writer-feminist Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue fashion editor Madge Garland. Laffan had a tangential...
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  • 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...
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    Ethiopian-American fashion designer and entrepreneur Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), writer, socialite Rita de Acosta Lydig (1876–1929), socialite Caroline Webster...
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  • of Greece Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta (Penguin Random House, 1994; Pimlico, 1995) Royal Orders: Honours...
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    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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    2006. Schanke, Robert A. (2004). That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-2579-9. Aldrich,...
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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...
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    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...
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    Schanke, Robert A. (May 10, 2004). That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0809325799. Robbins...
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  • "Eluding Magnificent Monuments: The Stylish Lives of Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland". bookslut. Retrieved 11 January 2018. Reviewed...
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    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...
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  • Night Traveler; Sleeping in the Forest May Swenson – Another Animal Mercedes de Acosta – Moods; Streets and Shadows; Archways of Life Michael Field – Works...
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  • in New York City Mercedes de Acosta, socialite, author, best known for her affairs with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich Rita de Acosta Lydig, socialite...
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    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...
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    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...
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