[Hollywood's Garden of Allah 01] • The Garden on Sunset
- Authors
- Turnbull, Martin
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Tags
- movie stars , mgm , alla nazimova , george cukor , movie studios , hollywood , mystery , los angeles , 20th century fiction , greta garbo , sunset boulevard
- ISBN
- 9781466218956
- Date
- 2011-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.47 MB
- Lang
- en
When Marcus Adler’s father runs him out of Pennsylvania, he can think of only one place to go: 8152 Sunset Boulevard, the home of luminous silent screen star Alla Nazimova, who visited him on his sickbed when he was a child. But when Marcus gets to Hollywood, Madame Nazimova’s home has been converted to a hotel. Marcus checks into The Garden of Allah and starts his new life. He soon finds friends in Kathryn Massey, who ran away from her overbearing stage mother to become a journalist, and Gwendolyn Brick, a hopeful actress from the Other Hollywood—Hollywood, Florida—who wants to try her luck in Glitter City. The three naïve hopefuls band together to tread water against a tidal wave of threadbare casting couches, nervous bootleggers, human billboards, round-the-world zeppelins, sinking gambling boats, waiters in blackface, William Randolph Hearst, the Long Beach earthquake, starlets, harlots, Harlows and Garbos. But how will they get their feet inside Hollywood’s golden door?