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In 1959, they paved the twenties-era celebrity estate-turned-bungalow court Garden of Allah and put up a strip mall (Joni Mitchell may or may not have written a song about it), and only in LA would ...

Once upon a time, the stars of a burgeoning SoCal celebrity scene frolicked at the Garden of Allah, a hotel and retreat operated by silent screen star Alla Nazimova at the corner of Sunset Boulevard ...

Color will be the cinema’s prime problem for 1937. Last week the country’s biggest cinemansion, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, exhibited the best answer to the problem that Hollywood has made in ...

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PITTSFIELD - Real- life cultural figures have been fertile sources for playwright Mark St. Germain's inventive, probing imagination. In his newest play, " Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah," which ...

The Garden of Allah was the Sunset and Crescent Heights estate of Russian actress Alla Nazimova, probably built sometime in the teens, expanded into a complex, and eventually turned into a bungalow ...

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The story [based on Robert Hichens' novel] has body and share of fame behind it to lift it above the usual screen tale. Religious angle is of the monk leaving the monastery to hide his identity, wed ...

Garden of Allah, sumptuously and impressively mounted by David O. Selznick, impresses in color production but is a pretty dull affair. It is optically arresting and betimes emotionally gripping but, ...