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Mercedes de Acosta (New York, 1º marzo 1893 – New York, 9 maggio 1968) è stata una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense, nonché costumista e celebrità mondana.
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova , Isadora Duncan , Eva Le Gallienne , and ...
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3 lug 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.
17 mar 2017 · Today we remember Mercedes De Acosta, a poet, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and costume designer, who remains known chiefly as the lover of some of the most famous women of the 20th...
5 ott 2023 · Toward the end of her life, de Acosta sold her papers to the museum to pay for medical expenses, leaving behind various drafts, letters, telegrams and even her family bible.
Robert A. Schanke's two-book offering in the Theater in the Americas Series is a tribute to the life and work of Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), an avowed lesbian playwright, novelist, and poet who during her lifetime was vilified as a calculating seductress and who died penniless and forgotten.
