oh-sewing-circle:“Alla Nazimova bought a mansion surrounded by three and a half acres of popla
oh-sewing-circle:“Alla Nazimova bought a mansion surrounded by three and a half acres of poplar, cedar, and fruit trees, at 8080 Sunset Boulevard at Crescent Heights Boulevard, and christened it the Garden of Allah. Her guests called her Madame and were forbidden to bid her goodnight because she believed the words brought her bad luck. She created a “moon parlor” and had the swimming pool shaped in the form of the Black Sea. The Garden of Allah was a notorious rendezvous for celebrity trysts. Mary’s, also owned by Nazimova, was a dyke bar on the Sunset Strip opposite Café Gala, a gay bar that by the 1930s was home away from home for Cole Porter.“ -- source link
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