[cinderella]

Mercedes de Acosta b. 1893, & d. 1968 in NYC. Wealthy socialite, Playwrite, screenwriter, poet, novelist. Little remembered for any literary work, but notoriously famous for being lover to the most beautiful and glamourous stars of classic cinema.

Truman Copote's naughty game of International Daisy Chain, whose object is to link people sexually using as few beds as possible, quipped: "Mercedes is the best card to hold - you can get to anyone from the Duchess of Windsor to Cardinal Spellman."

Mercedes' most famous lovers were Marlene Dietrich & Greta Garbo. But add to that list the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Alla Nazimova, Ona Munson (played Belle Watling in Gone With The Wind), Isadora Duncan, Elenor Roosevelt (so rumored), Catherine Cornell, Eva Le Gallienne, etc., etc., etc. Names relatively unknown today, but giants of the theater and cinema in their time. Mercedes was a very busy 'lady' indeed!! She is at once a fascinating and riviting individual. Her story reads like a who's who (or who's sleeping with who) of Hollywood & Broadway!