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“... bedroom just to suck the blood out of you. It was weird but peculiarly gratifying. Reading about Mercedes deAcosta, poet, playwright, memoirist, Hollywood screenwriter and lesbian seductress extraordinaire, brings it all back. By all accounts, de Acosta (1893-1968) was a ...”

“... forgotten lesbian women: the American heiress and intellectual polymath Esther Murphy (1897-1962); Mercedes deAcosta (1893-1968), the Cuban-American Hollywood screenwriter, memoirist and seductress extraordinaire (Garbo and Dietrich and Isadora Duncan were among her conquests); and the brittle yet pioneering British ...”

“... available: spiritualism, exorcism, massage, exercise, diet, meditation. A rich eccentric called Mercedes deAcosta persuaded her that ‘sex between people of the same gender will be a form of prayer. Happiness shall rule the world.’ It never ruled Garbo. She was not very bright, and she knew it: ‘My ...”

“... he turned his attentions to Garbo, she avoided him for 14 years, during which time she permitted Mercedes deAcosta (of whom Alice B. Toklas wrote: ‘You can’t dismiss Mercedes lightly. She has had the two most important women in the United States – Garbo and Dietrich’) and ...”

“... woman-loving Nazimova. Natacha Rambova, too, played part-time sapphist. She may well have bedded Mercedes deAcosta, paramour to Garbo and Dietrich. Irene Sharaff, costume doyenne, muses on Mercedes and Natacha’s bond: ‘Exactly what happened between them I don’t know for ...”

“... the best of terms with the vicar, the butcher and the gardener’. Equally tenacious was Mercedes deAcosta, screenwriter, activist, socialite, and, as Gottlieb puts it, ‘ubiquitous lesbian rake’, whose friendship with Garbo lasted almost thirty years. Some hints in ...”

“... sapphic society – Radclyffe Hall, Natalie Barney, Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Stein, Mercedes deAcosta, Gluck, Djuna Barnes, Ida Rubenstein, Romaine Brooks, Elsie de Wolfe, Eileen Gray, Wanda Landowksa, Winaretta Singer, Rose O’Neill, Violet Trefusis, Janet Flanner ...”