TY - BOOK AU - Reynolds,Anita AU - Hutchinson,George AU - Miller,Howard AU - Williams,Patricia AU - Williams,Patricia J. TI - American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World SN - 9780674073050 AV - E185.97.R49 .A3 2014eb U1 - 791.4302 8092 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Cambridge, MA PB - Harvard University Press KW - African American psychologists -- Biography KW - African American psychologists KW - Biography KW - African American women -- Biography KW - African American women entertainers -- Biography KW - African American women entertainers KW - African American women KW - Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography KW - Motion picture actors and actresses KW - United States KW - Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, -- 1901-1980 KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; Introduction --; A Note on the Text --; American Cocktail --; Foreword --; 1. --; 2. --; 3. --; 4. --; 5. --; 6. --; 7. --; 8. --; 9. --; 10. --; 11. --; 12. --; 13. --; 14. --; 15. --; 16. --; 17. --; 18. --; Appendixes Notes Index --; Appendix 1. --; Appendix 2. --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - This is the 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. In prose that perfectly captures the globetrotting nonchalance of its author, American Cocktail presents a stimulating, unforgettable self-portrait of a truly extraordinary woman UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674369337 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369337 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674369337/original ER -