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 emigre 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.
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