Outlaw Marriages (36 page)

11
. Wineapple,
Genêt
, 51–53.

12
. Ibid., 53; William Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 38.

13
. Ronald Weber,
News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006), 226; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 54–56.

14
. Solita Solano,
National Geographic
, “Constantinople Today,” June 1922, 647, and “Vienna: A Capital Without a Nation,” January 1923, 76–102; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 57.

15
. Janet Flanner,
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925–1939
(New York: Viking Press, 1962), vii; Weber,
News of Paris
, 226.

16
. Flanner and Solano to Carlos Baker, December 27, 1966, Flanner and Solano Papers.

17
. Solano to Hildegarde Flanner Monhoff, December 5, 1923, Flanner and Solano Papers; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 70.

18
. Grant to Flanner, June 1925, Jane Grant Papers, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

19
. Mary Blume, “The Enduring Journalism of Janet Flanner,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 26, 1978, Q68.

20
. Weber,
News of Paris
, 226.

21
. Ibid., 227–28.

22
. Ibid., 227, 230, 232; Grant,
Ross, The New Yorker
, 11; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 49, 102.

23
. Grant,
Ross, The New Yorker
, 11; Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 42; Weber,
News of Paris
, 227, 229; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 100.

24
. Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 41–43; Weber,
News of Paris
, 230, 232; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 49, 102.

25
. Genêt, “Paris Letter,”
New Yorker
, October 10, 1925, 28, 30; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 98.

26
. Grant,
Ross, The New Yorker
, 8–9.

27
. Genêt, “Paris Letter,”
New Yorker
, April 3, 1926, 51; April 16, 1927, 95.

28
. Genêt, “Paris Letter,”
New Yorker
, September 25, 1926, 66.

29
. Genêt, “Paris Letter,”
New Yorker
, October 10, 1925, 28; April 17, 1926, 61.

30
. Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 42–43; Weber,
News of Paris
, 230; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 103.

31
. Flanner to Mary Hockett Flanner, November 17, 1927, Flanner and Solano Papers;
Janet Flanner,
New Yorker
, “Profiles: Isadora,” January 1, 1927, 17–19, and “Profiles: The Egotist,” October 29, 1927, 23–25.

32
. “Paris in the Twenties,” The Twentieth Century, CBS television program, April 17, 1960; “Two Get Divorce in Paris,”
New York Times
, April 1, 1926, 6; Wineapple,
Genêt
, 122.

33
. Solita Solano,
The Uncertain Feast
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924); Solita Solano,
The Happy Failure
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925); Solita Solano,
This Way Up
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927); Wineapple,
Genêt
, 80.

34
. Genêt, “Letter from Paris,”
New Yorker
, July 7, 1934, 67–68; Ralph Ingersoll,
Fortune
, August 1934, 97.

35
. Janet Flanner, “Letter from Berlin,”
New Yorker
, August 1, 1936, 40; August 15, 1936, 39–41; and August 22, 1936, 64–67; Genêt, “London Letter,”
New Yorker
, December 12, 1936, 71–72.

36
. Janet Flanner,
New Yorker
, “Come as Somebody Else,” November 25, 1933, 24–27; “Her Majesty, The Queen,” May 4, 1935, 20–24, and May 11, 1935, 28–32; “One-Man Group,” December 9, 1939, 32–37; “Perfume and Politics,” May 3, 1930, 22–25; “Russian Firebird,” January 5, 1935, 23–28.

37
. Janet Flanner, “Fuehrer,”
New Yorker
, February 29, 1936, 20–24; March 7, 1936, 27–31; and March 14, 1936, 22–26; Flanner letter to Mary Hockett Flanner, October 27, 1937, Flanner and Solano Papers.

38
. Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 45.

39
. Ibid., 74; Janet Flanner,
New Yorker
, “A Reporter at Large: Paris, Germany,” December 7, 1940, 58; “A Reporter at Large: Soldats de France, Debout,” February 1, 1941, 20; “A Reporter at Large: Le Nouvel Ordre,” March 15, 1941, 38–47; “A Reporter at Large: Blitz by Partnership,” June 7, 1941, 42–54; and “A Reporter at Large: So You're Going to Paris,” June 21, 1941, 36–48.

40
. Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 35, 129.

41
. Wineapple,
Genêt
, 181–82, 252.

42
. Janet Flanner,
New Yorker
, “Annals of Crime: The Beautiful Spoils,” February 22, 1947, 31–48; March 1, 1947, 33–49; and March 8, 1947, 38–55; “Letter from Nuremberg,” March 16, 1946, 92–94; March 23, 1946, 78, 80–84; and March 30, 1946, 76–82.

43
. James Johnson Sweeney, “Masters in Profile,”
New York Times
, March 24, 1957, 253.

44
. Wineapple,
Genêt
, 267.

45
. Flanner to Solano, February 1, 1966, and March 17, 1966, Flanner and Solano Papers.

46
. Wineapple,
Genêt
, 269.

47
. Flanner to Solano, March 1, 1963; September 21, 1964; and October 26, 1964, Flanner and Solano Papers; Murray,
Janet, My Mother, and Me
, 257–77.

48
. Flanner to Solano, March 1, 1963; May 6, 1963; and September 21, 1964, Flanner and Solano Papers.

49
. Benjamin Bradlee, “Paragon of Correspondents Provides Excellent History,”
Washington Post
, November 16, 1965, A18; Janet Flanner,
Paris Journal: 1944–1965
(New York: Atheneum, 1965); Glenway Wescott, “The Tri-Colored Rainbow,”
New
York Herald Tribune
, December 19, 1965, 8.

50
. Harry Gilroy, “Book Awards Go to 4 U.S. Writers,”
New York Times
, March 16, 1966, A42.

51
. Wineapple,
Genêt
, 286–89.

52
. Casey, “Lady Known as Genêt,” F1; Janet Flanner,
Paris Journal: 1965–1971
(New York: Atheneum, 1971); Flanner,
Paris Was Yesterday;
Janet Flanner,
London Was Yesterday, 1934–1939
(New York: Viking, 1975); “Paris Journal,”
Saturday Review
, November 27, 1971, 40; Richard C. Wald, “Letters from London,”
Chicago Tribune
, June 1, 1975, G3.

53
. Flanner to Solano, January 31, 1974, Flanner and Solano Papers; “Solita Solano,”
New York Times
, 32.

54
. Genêt, “Letter from Paris,”
New Yorker
, September 29, 1975, 110; “N. Danesi Murray,”
New York Times
, June 13, 1994, D10.

55
. “Died,”
Newsweek
, November 20, 1978, 134; Whitman, “Janet Flanner,” B10.

56
. Blume, “Enduring Journalism,”
Los Angeles Times
, Q68; “Janet Flanner, 86, Writer,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, November 9, 1978, C7. “Janet Flanner, 86, Wrote on Paris for New Yorker,”
Boston Globe
, November 9, 1978, 83; “New Yorker's ‘Genêt,' Janet Flanner, Is Dead,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 9, 1978, C21; J.Y. Smith, “Janet Flanner, of New Yorker, Dies,”
Washington Post
, November 8, 1978, B3.

1
. On de Acosta's early years, see “Mercedes de Acosta, 75, Dies,”
New York Times
, May 10, 1968, 44; Barry Paris,
Garbo: A Biography
(New York: Knopf, 1995), 255–57; Robert A. Schanke,
“That Furious Lesbian”: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), 1–99. De Acosta's parents were Ricardo de Acosta and Micaela Hernandez de Alba y de Alba.

2
. Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 22–26.

3
. Ibid., 41–42, 56–66; Diana McClellan,
The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood
(New York: St. Martin's, 2000), 36–37, 83–84.

4
. “Miss De Acosta Wed to Abram Poole,”
New York Times
, May 12, 1920, 11; Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 50–51.

5
. Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 56–60, 122–23.

6
. Ibid., 43, 68, 74–75, 87. De Acosta's two plays staged on Broadway were
Sandro Botticelli
, about the painting
The Birth of Venus
, in 1923, and
Jacob Slovak
, about anti-Semitism, in 1927; de Acosta's play staged in Paris was
Jehanne d'Arc
, about Joan of Arc, in 1925.

7
. Percy Hammond, “The Theaters,”
New York Tribune
, March 27, 1923; Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 69, 75–76, 88.

8
. Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 102.

9
. On Garbo's early years, see Paris,
Garbo
, 3–77; Karen Swenson,
Greta Garbo: A Life Apart
(New York: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 1997), 24–84. Garbo's parents were Karl Gustafsson and Anna Karlsson Gustafsson.

10
. Paris,
Garbo
, 21–26.

11
. Ibid., 33–37. The director was Erik Petschler, and the film was
Peter the Tramp
.

12
. Paris,
Garbo
, 46–49. The director was Mauritz Stiller.

13
.
Swenson,
Greta Garbo
, 76.

14
. Jane Ellen Wayne,
The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), 80–81.

15
. Paris,
Garbo
, 83.

16
. Ibid., 568; Swenson,
Greta Garbo
, 99.

17
. For the quote, see Paris,
Garbo
, 111. See also Wayne,
Golden Girls
, 81.

18
. Paris,
Garbo
, 129.

19
. Ibid., 127.

20
. Ibid., 129.

21
. Ibid., 178.

22
. Ibid., 179.

23
. Ibid., 257–58; Mercedes de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
(New York: Reynal, 1960), 213–14; Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 103–5.

24
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 215–16; Paris,
Garbo
, 257.

25
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 219.

26
. Ibid., 219–20; Paris,
Garbo
, 259; Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 104–5.

27
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 222; Paris,
Garbo
, 260; Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 105.

28
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 224, 226.

29
. Paris,
Garbo
, 262–63.

30
. Ibid., 255; McClellan,
The Girls
, 128.

31
. Hollis Alpert, “Saga of Greta Gustafsson,”
New York Times Magazine
, September 5, 1965, 57; de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 214; McClellan,
The Girls
, 128; Paris,
Garbo
, 259; Swenson,
Greta Garbo
, 260.

32
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 127; McClellan,
The Girls
, 128; Paris,
Garbo
, 217, 265; Swenson,
Greta Garbo
, 258.

33
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 219; McClellan,
The Girls
, 128; Paris,
Garbo
, 262–63.

34
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 251.

35
. Paris,
Garbo
, 284.

36
. McClellan,
The Girls
, 343; Swenson,
Greta Garbo
, 285.

37
. Paris,
Garbo
, 217.

38
. Ibid., 128–29, 218; de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 227–28; McClellan,
The Girls
, 128.

39
. Paris,
Garbo
, 218, 221.

40
. de Acosta,
Here Lies the Heart
, 251; Paris,
Garbo
, 289.

41
. Paris,
Garbo
, 304.

42
. Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 109.

43
. Paris,
Garbo
, 324.

44
. “Garbo, Going Home, Leads Wild Chase in New York,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 26, 1932, 1; Garbo to de Acosta, September 19, 1935, folder 23, Mercedes de Acosta Collection, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia; Paris,
Garbo
, 311.

45
. Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, 109.

46
. Ibid.; Gayelord Hauser to de Acosta, November 9, 1939, de Acosta Collection.

47
.
Schanke,
Furious Lesbian
, xxi, 73.

48
. “At the Picture Theaters,”
New York Herald Tribune
, January 9, 1927, F3; “Best Performances in Current Pictures,”
Los Angeles Times
, January 31, 1927, C1; Mordaunt Hall, “The Screen,”
New York Times
, December 27, 1933, 23.

49
. Bart Barnes, “Greta Garbo Dies at Age 84,”
Washington Post
, April 16, 1990, A10.