Caresse Crosby from "Always Yes, Caresse," 1962

A clip from "Always Yes, Caresse", about Caresse Crosby from 1962, at her estate Castello di Rocca Siniblada north of Rome, Italy. She bought the run-down castle containing more than 200 rooms for a little more than $2000. She turned it into an artists colony. The short film featured her guests and their artistic and literary efforts. Caresse, born Mary Phelps Jacob in Boston, Massachusetts, was a patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist. She published the early works, before they were famous, of Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others.

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Film & Animation

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• 1920s
• Paris
• Italy
• poetry
• Caresse Crosby
• Black Sun Press

[btphelps]

@taggart52, her maiden name, Mary Phelps Jacob, is on the patent. She took Polly as a nickname when she was a child and later married Richard Peabody, one of the individuals who laid the foundation for Alcoholics Anonymous.

[taggart52]

Caressse Crosby was also known as Polly Peabody the inventor of the modern Bra