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Though she was the author of books of prose, collections of poems, and scripts, Mercedes de Acosta is rarely remembered for her writing, She is, instead, celebrated as a passionate lover who had affairs with some of the most intriguing and beautiful women of her time, De Acosta is rud 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.
” 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 thes, she was a figure in both the citys “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 remembered for her writing.
She is, instead, celebrated as a passionate lover who had affairs with some of the most intriguing and beautiful women of her time, De Acosta is rud 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.
” 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 thes, she was a figure in both the citys “high society” and its drag clubs and speakeasies.
“These were years guided by the spirit of the New,” she wrote of this period “We were on fire with fire, with a passion to create and a daring to achieve.
” Equal to the times, de Acosta was a forward thinking student of eastern religions and a strict vegetarian, 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.
When she convinced Garbo to visit her tailor and get a pair also, the two caused a great commotion on Hollywood Boulevard, “GARBO IN PANTS!” the headlines exclaimed, “Considering what walks down Hollywood Boulevard now,” de Acosta wrote in, “it seems strange that Greta and I should have caused such a sensation, ”After a life surrounded by fame, glamour, and wealth, Mercedes de Acosta spent her last years in loneliness and poverty, She suffered a variety of illnesses later in life, requiring several painful surgeries, and was forced to sell her diamonds to pay her medical bills, Hertell all autobiography, Here Lies the Heart, alienated many of de Acostas friends, Some claimed the book to be wildly exaggerated and even blatantly untrue, sitelink.