Who dated Mercedes de Acosta?

  • Isadora Duncan dated Mercedes de Acosta from ? until ?. The age gap was 13 years, 9 months and 3 days.

  • Claire Charles-Roux dated Mercedes de Acosta from ? until ?. The age gap was 16 years, 1 months and 9 days.

  • Marlene Dietrich dated Mercedes de Acosta from ? until ?. The age gap was 9 years, 9 months and 26 days.

Mercedes de Acosta

Mercedes de Acosta

Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. Her best-known involvement was with Greta Garbo with whom, in 1931, she began a sporadic and volatile romance. Her 1960 memoir, Here Lies the Heart, is considered part of gay history insofar that it hints at the lesbian element in some of her relationships.

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Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

Айседо́ра Дунка́н (англ. Isadora Duncan [ˌɪzəˈdɔrə ˈdʌŋkən]; 26 мая 1877 или 27 мая 1878, Сан-Франциско, Калифорния — 14 сентября 1927, Ницца, Третья французская республика) — американская танцовщица-новаторша, основоположница свободного танца. Разработала танцевальную систему и пластику, которую связывала с древнегреческим танцем.

Жена Сергея Есенина в 1922—1924 годах.

В её честь назван кратер Дункан на Венере.

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Mercedes de Acosta

Mercedes de Acosta
 

Claire Charles-Roux

Claire de Forbin La Barben (née Charles-Roux; 10 April 1908 – 1992) fought with the French Resistance during World War II. Married to the last marquess of Forbin-la Barben, she was the lover of Isabel Pell and Mercedes de Acosta.

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Mercedes de Acosta

Mercedes de Acosta
 

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decades.

In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco (1930) (her only Academy Award nomination), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus (both 1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Devil Is a Woman (1935). Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United States. Although she delivered notable performances in several post-war films, including Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), and Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), she spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer.

Dietrich was known for her humanitarian efforts during World War II, housing German and French exiles, providing financial support and advocating their American citizenship. For her work on improving morale on the front lines during the war, she received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of classic Hollywood cinema.

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