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Jul 6, 2021 · In 1918 a Russian actress, Alla Nazimova, one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood at the time, leased the property from Hay for $50,000 and bought it the following year. She called her new home “The Garden of Alla”, which was a reference to her own name, and the best-selling British novel The Garden of Allah .
Nov 16, 2020 · This is Hayvenhurst, Alla Nazimova's estate at 8152 Sunset in Hollywood. Later it became the Garden of Allah Hotel. This detailed history was created by the West Hollywood History Center with resources from the Alla Nazimova Society.
Nazimova jokingly called her new home "The Garden of Alla", which was a reference to her own name and the best-selling 1904 novel The Garden of Allah, by British author Robert S. Hichens. Faced with a financial crisis in the mid-1920s after her screen career derailed, Nazimova put her property to work generating an income by building a complex ...
Jan 11, 2021 · Photographs of the interior of Alla Nazimova’s home published in Picture Show magazine, January 1921. (Click to enlarge.) Alla’s biographer Gavin Lambert described it as “a classic movie star’s showplace … its immense tiled hallway dominated by a Mexican chandelier and two massive antique chests, its vast living room with another ...
Jun 16, 2022 · In her home on Sunset Boulevard — known far and wide as the “Garden of Alla” — Nazimova hosted one of the most storied and longest-running parties of the Roaring ’20s.
- Emily Jaeger
After acquiring a mansion at 8080 Sunset Blvd. (or 8152 Sunset, depending on who’s counting) in 1918, Alla Nazimova spent six years living in the home she somewhat facetiously dubbed “The Garden of Alla” (referring to an enormously popular 1904 novel The Garden of Allah by Robert Smythe Hichens).
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Nazimova’s ‘lavender relationship’ to gay actor Charles Bryant fooled no one. Her home, “The Garden of Alla,” a 3.5 acre estate on Sunset Boulevard, was reputed to be ground zero for the industry’s lesbian and bisexual women’s community, which Nazimova referred to as her “sewing circle.”
