The Garden of Allah
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Graham, Sheilah. The Garden of Allah. Second Printing. 1970. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
The view to the south of the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood is a strip mall blighted with a McDonald’s and masses of concrete. It will soon be bulldozed to make way for a Frank Gehry project. Before the strip mall, the property was home to the Garden of Allah, a charming bungalow apartment complex that was the haunt of misbehaving film stars and dissolute East Coast literary types: an East Coast version of the Chelsea Hotel but far more glamorous. This book covers the Garden of Allah’s glory days. The author was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last love. They lived nearby and were frequent guests, socializing with Errol Flynn, Tallulah Bankhead (who could be found swimming naked in the pool), Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo, and many others.
“The Garden of Allah was the Algonquin Round Table Gone west and childish.”
--Sheilah Graham
The view to the south of the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood is a strip mall blighted with a McDonald’s and masses of concrete. It will soon be bulldozed to make way for a Frank Gehry project. Before the strip mall, the property was home to the Garden of Allah, a charming bungalow apartment complex that was the haunt of misbehaving film stars and dissolute East Coast literary types: an East Coast version of the Chelsea Hotel but far more glamorous. This book covers the Garden of Allah’s glory days. The author was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last love. They lived nearby and were frequent guests, socializing with Errol Flynn, Tallulah Bankhead (who could be found swimming naked in the pool), Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo, and many others.
“The Garden of Allah was the Algonquin Round Table Gone west and childish.”
--Sheilah Graham
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