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5. MARTINI TIME

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Garden of Allah

“At martini time, Robert Benchley (cherubic comedian and humorist), actor Charles Butterworth (his pal next door) and the actress would sit in Benchley’s living room with the door open and listen to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw or Woody Herman noodling across the way.”

– Sylvia Thompson writing about her mother, the actress Gloria Stuart, in ‘Martini Time in the Garden of Allah’ for the the Los Angeles Times in November 2000.
  • January 12, 2021
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Garden of Allah

  • A Place Called the Garden of Allah
  • Introduction
  • In This Exhibit
  • 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 form 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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