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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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When playwright and performer Romy Nordlinger learned the story of Alla Nazimova, she wondered why so few people know her name. But now that Nordlinger has written and starred in a one-woman show ...