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Mercedes De Acosta
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Is not known by accuracy when and where the
scriptwriter Mercedes de Acosta was born, although probably she was in
New York in the year 1893. According to her, her father was a Cuban exiled
soldier, Ricardo de Acosta, and her mother a Spanish noblewoman related
with the House of Alba, Micaela Hernández y de Alba. Already in her youth she
lived the suicide of her father and the obsession of her mother to treat like a
son. Her mother was waiting for a male and this disappointment provoked that she
was dressing her as such and even was calling her "Rafael". In an occasion a boy
called her a "little woman" and she realized that actually she was not a boy,
motivated for which she fell ill. Her mother reflected and assumed that she was
a girl, calling her again by her name: Mercedes. It is said that the director of
one of the most important theatrical companies of the United States, Augustin
Daly, stayed delighted of Mercedes when he saw her with only five years and he
even offered her parents who were transferring him in adoption. But Mercedes was
not going to be praised by the performance but by the writing. She wrote
several stage plays that were never represented. She was a poetess, designer of
fashion and scriptwriter of Hollywood (she assumes the idea of The
queen Christina of Sweden). In 1920 she married the painter Abram Poole,
of whom she would get divorced in 1935. In 1936 she supported to the republican
edict in the Spanish Civil war with a collection of funds. But if for something
she would go on to the History is for her aptitude to conquer other women,
between them Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Galliene, Maude Adams, Ona
Munson, Katherine Cornell, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. All these romances
went out to the light in her memoirs, called Here Lies The Hearth. For
example, she described Isadora Duncan this way in the following poem: "A
graceful body, soft and white hands to serve to my delight. Two turgid, round
and sweet breasts invite to eat to my hungry mouth, where two pink and firm
nipples persuade to my thirsty soul so that she drinks. And further down, there
is still a secret place where willingly she would conceal my affectionate face".
Mercedes de Acosta died in 1968, ignored and poor, in a small apartment of two
rooms in the city of New York. Her body is buried in the cemetery of Trinity
(Washington Heights, New York) along with that of her mother and to that of her
sister, Rita de Alba de Acosta.
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