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  • 1. DEVILISH AMBITION

1. DEVILISH AMBITION

  • Jon Ponder
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Alla Nazimova smoking on the set of 'Madame Peacock' in 1920
Alla Nazimova smoking on the set of ‘Madame Peacock’ in 1920

‘It is my devilish ambition that has urged me on and on.’

– Alla Nazimova, the Garden of Allah’s founder, on what drove her to the pinnacle of success on stage and in film
  • January 11, 2021
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Garden of Allah

  • A Place Called the Garden of Allah
  • Introduction
  • Contents
  • 1. DEVILISH AMBITION
    • Nazimova
    • Broadway Phenomenon
    • Movies
    • Photographs of Nazimova 1905-1916
    • Star Treatment
  • 2. TREMENDOUSLY HAPPY
    • Hayvenhurst
    • Garden of Alla
    • Photographs of the Garden of Alla
    • Valentino
    • Salome
    • Betrayal
  • 3. MAGNIFICENT HOSTELRY
    • Grand Opening
    • ‘The Miracle’
    • Famous Guests 1927
    • Money Troubles
  • 4. CONTINUAL TUMULT
    • Central Holding
    • Famous Guests in the Early 1930s
    • The Algonquins: Gone West and Childish
    • Everything Was Shaking
    • Schwab’s
    • The Legendary Swimming Pool
    • Bogart
  • 5. MARTINI TIME
    • Infidels: Scott and Sheilah
    • Nazimova Returns
    • The Garden’s Playground
    • More Guests from the 1930s
    • The Garden at War
    • Gloria Stuart’s Rationbook Dinner Parties
    • Bogart Returns
    • Farewells
  • 6. KISMET
    • Decline
    • ‘Gotta Get a Grip’
    • Tatty
    • Vanderbilts at the Garden Allah
    • ‘All the Hookers in the World’
    • Guests in the Late 1940s and ’50s
    • The Last of Errol Flynn
    • The End Begins
    • All That Remains
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