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Bessie Love at the Garden of Allah hotel
Bessie Love was a popular actress whose career started with D.W. Griffiths in the mid-1910s appearing in both “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) and “Intolerance” (1916). She successfully made the transition to talkies and in 1929 was was nominated … Continue reading
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Lillian Hellman at the Garden of Allah hotel
Lillian Hellman, author of “The Children’s Hour” and “The Little Foxes” was living at the Garden of Allah when she and writer Arthur Kober (with whom she’d moved to Hollywood) decided to divorce in 1931. She subsequently paired up with … Continue reading
Red Skelton at the Garden of Allah hotel
Red Skelton was staying at the Garden of Allah during WWII when it was considered the patriotic thing to do for film stars to pick up servicemen and take them home for a meal or a drink. When Red picked … Continue reading
Sergei Rachmaninoff at the Garden of Allah hotel
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a prominent Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who immigrated to the States in the late 1910s. He lived at the Garden of Allah in the late 1920s and was Harpo Marx’s downstairs neighbor. They did not, however, … Continue reading
David Niven at the Garden of Allah hotel
In David Niven’s early Hollywood days – the mid-30s – he shared a villa at the Garden of Allah with Errol Flynn. (He got his break in 1935’s “Barbary Coast” for Goldwyn.) Niven met Flynn at actress Lili Damita’s Garden … Continue reading
Dorothy Gish at the Garden of Allah hotel
Dorothy Gish, one of the early silent stars along with her sister Lillian, was at the Garden of Allah during filming of “Madame Pompadour” in 1927 She also lived at the Garden of Allah with husband Louis Calhern in the … Continue reading
Charles Laughton at the Garden of Allah hotel
British actor, Charles Laughton, lived at the Garden of Allah during filming of “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935) and “Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939) In September of 1939, during the filming ‘Hunchback’, L.A. was hit with a 2-week heatwave. Laughton … Continue reading
Ginger Rogers (playing tennis) at the Garden of Allah hotel
Ginger Rogers did live at the Garden of Allah, but was there a lot, mostly to see if she could rustle up a tennis partner to play a game or two on the Garden of Allah tennis courts.
Orson Welles at the Garden of Allah hotel
Orson Welles lived at the Garden of Allah when he was working on “Journey Into Fear” (released in February of 1943, so he would have been there in 1942.) He had at least one love affair there, with the…”ahem”…actress-model Lili … Continue reading
Frank Sinatra at the Garden of Allah hotel
Frank Sinatra lived at Garden of Allah in 1941 with his press agent George Evans, who had organized for the screaming teens in NY. Frank’s first movie was “Step Lively” 1944 at RKO, so RKO organized for 500 screaming teens … Continue reading