American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world

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Label

American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world

Title remainder

a "colored girl" in the world

Statement of responsibility

Anita Reynolds with Howard M. Miller ; edited and with introduction and notes by George Hutchinson ; foreword by Patricia Williams

Creator

• Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980

Contributor

• Hutchinson, George, 1953-
• Miller, Howard M

Editor

• Hutchinson, George, 1953-

Subject

• African American women -- Biography
• African American women entertainers -- Biography
• Electronic books
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
• Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980
• African American psychologists -- Biography

Genre

• Electronic books
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an "American cocktail." One of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to New York in the 1920s and made a splash with both Harlem Renaissance elites and Greenwich Village bohemians. An émigré in Paris, she fell in with the Left Bank avant garde, befriending Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. Next, she took up residence as a journalist in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and witnessed firsthand the growing menace of fascism. In 1940, as the Nazi panzers closed in on Paris, Reynolds spent the final days before the French capitulation as a Red Cross nurse, afterward making a mad dash for Lisbon to escape on the last ship departing Europe." -- Publisher's description

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 791.4302/8092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English

LC call number

E185.97.R49

LC item number

A3 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography