Photos of the Garden of Allah’s closing night party, August 1959
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Martin Turnbull | Jun 27, 2013
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Topics: Garden of Allah hotel
- 1879 – 1915
- 1916 – 1925
- 1926 – 1935
- 1936 – 1945
- Garden of Allah 1918 – 1959
- 1959: Newspaper article: “Garden of Allah Hotel to be Razed”
- Garden of Allah hotel – view of the swimming pool
- Garden of Allah hotel sign on Sunset Boulevard
- Garden of Allah hotel villas
- View of the Garden of Allah Hotel swimming pool
- Man reading on a side path of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Garden of Allah Hotel pool
- Shady side paths Garden-of Allah Hotel
- The Garden of Allah Hotel in 1928, a year after it opened.
- Photos of the Garden of Allah’s closing night party, August 1959
- Photograph of the model of the Garden of Allah Hotel made after the hotel’s closing.
- Postcard written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and sent to himself while living at the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Newspaper advertisements for the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Matchbook covers for the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Newspaper articles on the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Bessie Love – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Alexander Woollcott – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Garson Kanin – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Frank Sinatra – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Orson Welles – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Ginger Rogers – frequent visitor to the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Charles Laughton – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Dorothy Gish – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- David Niven – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Marlene Dietrich – (possible) resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Red Skelton – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Lillian Hellman – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett – residents of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Jackie Gleason – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Leopold Stokowski – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- George Kaufman – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Donald Ogden Stewart – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- John Carradine – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Flora Robson – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Charlie Butterworth – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Kay Thompson – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Margaret Sullavan – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Louis Calhern – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Marshall “Mickey” Neilan – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Marc Connolly – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Harry Ruby – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Natalie Schafer – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- H. B. Warner – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Hugh Williams – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Leon Shamroy – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Francis X. Bushman – visitor to the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Alla Nazimova – original resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall – residents of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Errol Flynn – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Harpo Marx – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Dorothy Parker – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Robert Benchley – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Ava Gardner – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Artie Shaw – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Ronald Colman – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Clara Bow – resident of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- 1927: article announcing Alla Nazimova’s home is now a hotel
- Communal living room in the main building of the Garden of Allah hotel
- Composite panoramic photo of the swimming pool and main building of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Corner of the Garden of Allah Hotel, 1959
- Dick Stagg instructing Terry Miller, 7 at the Garden of Allah Hotel’s pool
- Early shot of the Garden of Allah hotel as seen from Sunset Boulevard, circa late 1920s
- Front entrance of the Garden of Allah hotel
- Fountain and side path at the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Garden of Allah hotel – as seen from the air
- Garden of Allah hotel – front entrance facing Sunset Boulevard
- Garden of Allah hotel – front entrance from Sunset Boulevard
- Garden of Allah hotel – inside the main hotel foyer
- Garden of Allah hotel – looking back toward the main building from across the pool
- The original house–called “Havyenhurst”–which eventually became the Garden of Allah Hotel
- View across the swimming pool to the main building of the Garden of Allah Hotel
- Francis X. Bushman and his wife Millicent at the Garden of Allah Hotel’s closing party.
- Alla Nazimova portrait (undated)
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Amazing! I had never seen any shots of the film being projected there before. Do you know if that was a still image, or an actual piece of film from “Salome”?
We know that her films were shown that night, so presumably the photo capture an image from the screening. – Jon