TY - BOOK AU - Reynolds,Anita Thompson Dickinson AU - Hutchinson,George AU - Miller,Howard M. TI - American cocktail: a "colored girl" in the world SN - 9780674073050 AV - E185.97.R49 A3 2014 U1 - 791.4302/8092B 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, KW - African American women KW - Biography KW - Motion picture actors and actresses KW - United States KW - African American women entertainers KW - African American psychologists KW - fast KW - Autobiographies KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Narrative non-fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / by; Patricia Williams --; Introduction / by; George Hutchinson --; A note on the text / by; George Hutchinson --; American cocktail --; Appendix 1: Publications by Anita Reynolds --; Appendix 2: Anita Reynolds's correspondence with family N2 - "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 UR - http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780674073050 ER -