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Terry Castle: The vampiric Mercedes de Acosta, 24 June 2004
‘That Furious Lesbian’: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta
by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 210 pp., £16.95, June 2004,0 8093 2579 9 Show More
by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 210 pp., £16.95, June 2004,
Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 252 pp., £26.95, June 2003,0 8093 2509 8 Show More
by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke.
Southern Illinois, 252 pp., £26.95, June 2003,
“... nocturnal, deeply credulous way that one does – such fantastical anecdotes as that related by Antoni Gronowicz in Garbo: Her Story (1990): One evening in their hotel room, Garbo wept as she related to Mercedes how the late director Mauritz Stiller ‘had been in absolute control of her life’ and how his memory still haunted her. Mercedes proceeded to ... ”
