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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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