
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mercedes de Acosta

Related Topics

Jose Julian Acosta

Pierre de Marivaux

Greta Garbo

Bernice Abbott

Djuna Barnes

Ona Munson

Anita Loos

Portia de Rossi

Uriel Acosta

Paris

Marlene Dietrich

Sarah Bernhardt

Washington Heights

Alla Nazimova

List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers

	Mercedes de Acosta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born to a Cuban father, Ricardo de Acosta, and a Spanish mother, Micaela Hernandez y de Alba, who herself was a descendant of the Spanish Dukes of Alba, in New York City in 1893.
		Mercedes de Acosta married Abram Poole (1882 - 1961) in 1920, a noted painter and socialite.
		She is buried with her mother and sister, Rita de Alba de Acosta (a fabled beauty best known as Rita Lydig) at Trinity Cemetery in Washington Heights in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercedes_de_Acosta (261 words)

	[No title]
		De Acosta was without the great wealth of her youth, (she sold the last of her jewelry to pay medical bills)and spent her last years in a small apartment in New York City.
		De Acosta was sure the Wanderling still maintained a working or spiritual relationship with his mentor and would be able to arrange a meeting.
		At the time de Acosta was in the process of searching down the Wanderling he was just nearing the end of the so-called twelve year rule and had not yet reached the Full Attainment that eventually befell him three years later as outlined in Dark Luminosity.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/deacosta.html (5839 words)

	Extravagant Crowd \| Mercedes de Acosta
		De Acosta is rumored to have boasted often of her prowess as a lover, even going so far as to declare “I can get any woman from any man.”1 Her list of lovers is long, including Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, and, most famously, Greta Garbo.
		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.
		An early feminist, de Acosta advocated, along with her friend and lover the dancer Isadora Duncan, the elimination of uncomfortable and restricting fashions for women; while other women were lacing themselves into corsets, de Acosta was often seen wearing trousers.
	highway49.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/gallery/acosta.html (477 words)

	Mercedes de Acosta
		Mercedes' sister Rita posed for some of the greatest painters of the early twentieth century, and it was through her that Mercedes first met Rodin, Stravinsky, and other notables in the artistic, musical, and literary circles.
		In 1933 Mercedes was in a car crash in which she was thrown from the car and landed on her head, suffering head injuries which may have contributed to her need for brain surgery nearly thirty years later.
		In 1948 Mercedes had her last long term relationship with Poppy Kirk, a fashion model whose arrival in her life Mercedes believed she had foreseen in a dream.
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /mercedes_dacosta.html (1494 words)

	Out In The Montains : Views - Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, & Merecedes de Acosta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the summer of 1931, de Acosta was invited to the home of another foreign screenwriter, Salka Viertel, who was from Germany and was also great friends with Garbo, whom she had invited.
		De Acosta sent them back to the department store they came from, but nonetheless, that autumn, the two women began a love affair that “raged” until May of 1933.
		It was de Acosta’s modus operandi; although she preferred her girlfriends to be monogamous with her, she did not practice it herself.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/2002/12dec2002/views04_susanna.htm (1050 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Acosta, Mercedes de
		Mercedes de Acosta was a poet, playwright, screenwriter, and costume designer, and she was a devotee of Eastern mysticism, the occult, and vegetarianism long before any of these pursuits became fashionable.
		While in her early twenties, Acosta became involved in the lesbian theatrical circles of Broadway, particularly the salon of Bessie Marbury, a powerful producer and literary agent, and Marbury's lover Elsie de Wolfe, the prominent interior decorator.
		Although Acosta published three volumes of poetry in the early 1920s, had several plays staged, and wrote various film treatments, none of these brought her the success she sought, and it is through her memoirs--and her affairs--that she has achieved a level of lesbian immortality.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/acosta_m.html (915 words)

	Outspoken But Sidelined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mercedes de Acosta had a lot of personality, a lot of potential, a healthy sexual appetite but throughout her life found little success.
		Mercedes met Garbo in 1931 and was obsessed with the actress for the rest of her life, going so far as to compose an entire (unpublished) book of poems and a scrapbook devoted to her.
		Mercedes deserves a lot of credit for having the courage to be an outspoken lesbian in the early 20th century, but compared to the larger-than-life writers and actresses with whom she associated, it must be said that her talents were considerably more circumscribed.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn227/outspokenbut.html (647 words)

	E! Online News - Blackmailing Garbo? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The screen siren allegedly faced flmail from Mercedes de Acosta, who claimed she was willing to allow the public to read the 55 "passionate" love letters the two exchanged during their fling.
		Clearly torn between her former flame's desire for privacy, and her own need for public disclosure, de Acosta gave the 55 missives to Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum and Library in 1960 with the stipulation that they not be made public until 10 years after both she and Garbo had died.
		De Acosta, a poet and wannabe screenwriter who bragged she could bed any woman, had affairs with many of the era's most glamorous celebs, including Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,6295,00.html (353 words)

	Sunday Afternoon: Doco: Loving Greta Garbo
		Mercedes de Acosta was a set and costume designer, poet, playwright, and Hollywood scriptwriter, but it seems not a very successful one...
		The autobiography gave De Acosta the chance to name all the famous people with whom she'd been acquainted, an amazing cross-section of great minds and talents of the 20th century including Rodin, Stravinsky and Picasso.
		It's reported that Truman Capote said that Mercedes was his trump card because she could be connected so quickly to so many via bed or intellect.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/sundayafternoon/programs/s950822.htm (330 words)

	Garbo and Mercedes: Read between the lines
		The 10th anniversary of her death in 1990, it was the date on which her correspondence with kiss-and-tell socialite Mercedes de Acosta was unsealed at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, the long-awaited public unveiling of 55 letters that would confirm or debunk their alleged lesbian love affair once and for.
		Garbo was 25 and de Acosta 39 when they met in 1931 and spent an idyllic vacation together in the Sierra Nevadas.
		Mercedes wrote in her autobiography that she honestly thought she was a boy until age 7 -- indicating, if nothing else, a bit of slowness in childhood cognitive development.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000424garbo1.asp (902 words)

	Garbo's Personal Letters Released
		Garbo's writings to Acosta — 113 items including 25 letters, notes, telegrams, photos and poems — were opened on the 10th anniversary of the actress's death Saturday, and about half of them were laid out Monday before the media at the Rosenbach Museum and Library.
		Acosta gave the letters to the Rosenbach in 1960 with the stipulation they not be opened until 10 years after both women were dead.
		Acosta, who wrote in her autobiography about a deep relationship with Garbo, died in 1968.
	richlabonte.net /exonews/xtra4/garbo.htm (492 words)

	Letter bombs? Museum will open Garbo's correspondence to alleged socialite lover
		Mercedes, who introduced Garbo to the haut monde and to vegetarianism, among other things, was a pure Spanish aristocrat raised in America and France, a dramatist, an avowed lesbian and a devotee of astral projection and primal moaning.
		Mercedes (1893-1968), who had a torrid affair with Isadora Duncan, was one of the great celebrity collectors of the century.
		Mercedes was part of an elite set of Hollywood lesbians and bisexuals that included Aldous Huxley's wife, Maria, and were known as "Gilette blades" (because they cut both ways).
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000413garbo3.asp (808 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Garbo letters leave secrets intact
		Biographers and historians hoped the letters would shed some light on the relationship between Garbo and de Acosta, who gave the letters to the Rosenbach in 1960 with the stipulation that they not be opened until 10 years after the death of Garbo or Acosta, whichever came later.
		De Acosta sparked rumours of a lesbian romance by writing in her memoirs that the pair wrote each other passionate letters and bathed naked together.
		De Acosta claimed to have had affairs with Marlene Dietrich and dancer Isadora Duncan as well as Garbo.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/717498.stm (513 words)

	Re-Greta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The sexual preference of screen legend Greta Garbo will be the subject of much debate this week as the folks at the Rosenbach Museum and Library peek at some of her personal letters for the first time in over 40 years.
		Garbo exchanged correspondence with poet, playwright and screenwriter Mercedes de Acosta from 1930 to 1959.
		Acosta — who was notorious for having affairs with Hollywood’s elite actresses, including Marlene Dietrich — possessed a collection of letters written to her by the stoic Swedish actress.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/041300/cw.six.pick6.shtml (171 words)

	Bob Schanke
		On February 3, 1930, Mercedes de Acosta's friend, the photographer and designer Cecil Beaton, wrote in his diary that he was embarrassed being seen with Mercedes when he accompanied her to the theater that night.
		The years 1916-1920, when Mercedes was experiencing her first adult relationships with other women--namely with Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, and Hope Williams--she would not have been derided as “that furious lesbian.” Indeed, due in part to the popularity of Freudian psychology, the period signaled the beginning of “self-conscious sexual experimentation between women” who loved women.
		Mercedes persisted in trying to mount a production of her play The Dark Light (1926) wherein there is an incestuous love between a brother and sister, and she wrote Illusion (1928), which is the story of a prostitute in a waterfront bar.
	www.lisa-raymond.com /ASTR/schanke.htm (899 words)

	HERSTORY Lesbians in the arts
		Mercedes wore many hats, she was a poet, playwright, set and costume designer and hollywood scriptwriter.
		But Mercedes seems to have only responded with transcendent grace, remaining kind and loyal to most everyone who crossed her path (even those who clearly didn't deserve or reciprocate) up to her own death in 1968.
		Mercedes was without the great wealth of her youth, (she sold the last of her jewelry to pay medical bills) and spent her last years in a small apartment at 315 east 68th street in Manhattan NYC.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Suite/9048/DeAcosta.html (798 words)

	Video History Project: Resources - Individual Biography
		Mercedes, Here Lies the Heart (16mm, 35mins., 2002) is dedicated to the memory of poet, novelist, play write, and Hollywood screenwriter, Mercedes de Acosta.
		Mercedes is inspired by De Acosta's own published memoirs, Here Lies the Heart (1960) in which De Acosta obsessively lists her impressive cache of celebrity acquaintances (including Elenora Duse, Isadora Duncan, Alice B. Toklas, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo, among others).
		While highlighting De Acosta's distinctive passions for celebrity and her own sexual, ethnic, and spiritual entanglements, Mercedes poses questions about biographical structure and autobiographical representation, history and fantasy, identity and desire.
	www.experimentaltvcenter.org /history/people/bio.php3?id=191 (489 words)

	Realization.org: My Meeting With Ramana Maharshi by Mercedes De Acosta
		Mercedes De Acosta was a Cuban-American screenwriter of the 1920s and 30s who was famous for her love affairs with Greta Garbow, Marlene Dietrich, Isadora Duncan, and a host of other beautiful celebrities.
		Mercedes de Acosta was born in 1898 and died in 1968.
		De Acosta's visit with Ramana is mentioned in this book in the entry for 15th December, 1938.
	www.realization.org /page/doc0/doc0039.htm (4361 words)

	MuseumNetwork.com - Feature topic: Greta Garbo's Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is evident through her words that Garbo felt a kinship with Mercedes, which allowed her to share her trepid feelings about loneliness, the madness of her profession, and her transient lifestyle.
		A star-struck starlet, Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968) had a brush with the limelight at the tender age of five when she caught the eye of theater producer Augustin Daly.
		Though a capable scriptwriter, de Acosta is and was known more for her sexual prowess and overflowing "fl book" than for her intellect.
	www.museumnetwork.com /features/garbo.asp (499 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Garbo's secrets to be revealed
		Biographers and historians hope the letters will shed some light on the relationship between Garbo and Acosta, who donated the letters with strict instructions they were to stay sealed until 10 years after either her or Garbo's death.
		Acosta died in 1968, while Garbo - star of films such as Mata Hari and Anna Christie - died on 15 April 1990, after living as a recluse for nearly 50 years.
		Acosta claimed to have had affairs with Marlene Dietrich and dancer Isadora Duncan as well as Garbo.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/705275.stm (329 words)

	News & Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A collection of letters and notes from film legend Greta Garbo to her friend Mercedes de Acosta was unsealed after forty years on April 15, but gave no support to de Acosta's claims of a sexual relationship between them.
		Spanish-born screenwriter de Acosta had contributed to the museum what she said were love letters in an archive box tied with a red ribbon in 1960, asking that it not be opened for a decade following her death or Garbo's, whichever came later.
		De Acosta like to brag that she could take any woman away from any man, and that she had had sex with Garbo, actress Marlene Dietrich and dancer Isadora Duncan.
	www.planetout.com /news/article.html?2000/04/17/5 (469 words)

	Mercedes de Acosta
		Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1893 - May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite best known for her lesbian affairs with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Eva Le Gallienne ([1]), Isadora Duncan, Katherine Cornell, Maude Adams, Ona Munson ("Belle Watling" in the movie "Gone With the Wind"), and others.
		She is buried with her mother and sister Rita (see below) at Trinity Cemetery in Washington Heights in New York City.
		Acosta's sister, Rita de Alba de Acosta, was a fabled beauty and aesthete best known as Rita Lydig.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mercedes_de_acosta.html (286 words)

	That Furious Lesbian \| Schanke
		The story of de Acosta, her life, her loves, and her struggle to live openly in a world that wanted no part of her, will serve to inspire generations to come.
		In this first book-length biography of Mercedes de Acosta, theatre historian Robert A. Schanke adroitly mines lost archival materials and mixes in his own interviews with de Acosta’s intimates to correct established myths and at last construct an accurate, detailed, and vibrant portrait of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-twentieth-century author, poet, and playwright.
		De Acosta lived her desires publicly with verve and vigor at a time when few others would dare, and for that, she paid the price of marginalized obscurity.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/s03_titles/schanke_lesbian.htm (758 words)

	PAGE TWO: Here Lies the Heart
		Ganapati Sastri, known as well as Ganapathi Muni, showed Sri Bhagavan a letter from a Spanish lady, Mercedes De Acosta, saying she would be arriving here the next day.
		De Acosta's traveling companion for most of the trip was a woman mentioned by De Acosta only by her first name, Consuelo.
		De Acosta had met Meher Baba in California and for some time carried what seemed to be considerable respect for him.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/deacosta2.html (5082 words)

	Marlene Dietrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was not only that Dietrich wore pants, she also had lesbian affairs, including one with the excentric Spanish screen-writer Mercedes de Acosta in the early 1930s.
		This was more than extraordinary in Hollywood during that time, since Marlene and Mercedes were unusually open with their relationship.
		She often had romantic feelings for women before, even as a child she fell deeply in love with her French teacher Mademoiselle Bregaund in 1913 but, of course, this was only a reveling.
	www.the-sisterhood.net /thepinknazi/id7.html (722 words)

	Books \| Marlene, she's making eyes at me
		Mercedes de Acosta was a socialite and writer; she was marginal to the public view of Hollywood's firmament, but central to the private lives of some of its stars.
		She was reputed to have slept with so many people that when Truman Capote invented a game called International Daisy Chain, the aim of which was to link people sexually in as few moves as possible, he said Mercedes de Acosta was the best card you could have.
		De Acosta deposited her private papers at the Rosenbach Collection in 1960 on one condition: that her letters from Garbo (some 87 missives in total) not be made public until 10 years after the last of the two women died.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4167068-99942,00.html (1110 words)

	Untitled Document
		Using recently released letters, biographies, de Acosta's poems and autobiography, prize-winning producer Lena Einhorn has made a documentary portrait of the very private Greta Garbo.
		Mercedes de Acosta, who knew Garbo for thirty years, until 1960 when the Swedish star broke all contact, will be our escort in this film, following the film star’s life -- from her childhood in Stockholm to glamorous but hated Hollywood, to exile in New York.
		(Mercedes de Acosta was also a love interest for Marlene Dietrich, Isadora Duncan, and Eva le Gallienne.) In color with English narration.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/swedish/events/twolectures.html (351 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)