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The Garden of Allah is a 1936 American adventure drama romance film directed by Richard Boleslawski, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by William P. Lipscomb and Lynn Riggs, who based it on the 1904 novel of the same title by Robert S. Hichens.
The Garden of Allah was a famous hotel in West Hollywood, California, United States (then an unincorporated area of Los Angeles which was usually considered a part of Hollywood), at 8152 Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights and Havenhurst, at the east end of the Sunset Strip.
Jul 6, 2021 · In a drunken haze, famed writer F Scott Fitzgerald sent a postcard to himself at the Garden of Allah hotel, located in Hollywood, California. The late 1950s saw things beginning to change, and the atmosphere around the Garden became less glamorous and significantly seedier.
The Garden of Allah: Directed by Richard Boleslawski. With Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone. The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Dec 11, 2023 · From the late 1920s onwards, Hollywood ‘s biggest stars found brief reprieve from the public eye in a picturesque hotel nestled quietly between Sunset Boulevard and Laurel Canyon.
Sep 5, 2017 · The Garden of Allah (1936) Silver Screen Classics. 76.9K subscribers. 578. 63K views 6 years ago. Directed by Richard Boleslawski Starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer with Basil...
Following a dust-up in an Algerian cafe, fugitive monk Antoine (Charles Boyer) makes up a name, when queried by Domini (Marlene Dietrich), the French traveler he rescued from the fray, meeting a street mystic (John Carradine) along the way, , 1936.
Jan 11, 2021 · For 32 years, the Garden of Allah was an oasis of sophisticated hedonism in Hollywood. Its long list of celebrity guests included movie stars, world-renowned musicians, East Coast and European aristocrats and even a mobster or two.
Sep 22, 2022 · To Nazimova’s chagrin, her Garden of Alla was now spelled with an ‘h’ at the end of Alla. But no matter the name, it attracted droves of Hollywood stars and literati, drawn by the freewheeling lifestyle, daily parties, hijinks in the pool, and the endless alcohol despite Prohibition.
Jun 9, 2016 · In 1926, Broadway star Alla Nazimova transformed her West Hollywood estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel, which also drew the likes of Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier and the Marx brothers.
