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The Florentine Gardens was a nightclub in Hollywood, California, at 5955 Hollywood Boulevard, opened on December 28, 1938, by restaurateur Guido Braccini. [1] The building was designed by architect Gordon B. Kaufmann [2] and featured a European garden motif. Manager and emcee Nils Granlund. Nils Thor Granlund (known as N.T.G.) had been a radio ...
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The original design of the gardens centred on an amphitheatre, behind the corps de logis of the palazzo. [5] The first play recorded as performed there was Andria by Terence in 1476. It was followed by many classically inspired plays of Florentine playwrights such as Giovan Battista Cini.
Ann (Anna Dolores) Toth (1922–1991) was a Hollywood starlet and girlfriend of Mark Hansen, and Larry Harnisch who operated the Florentine Gardens in Hollywood.She befriended and roomed at the Carlos Avenue, Hollywood residence with Elizabeth Short, prior to Short's sensational murder on January 15, 1947.
The Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli /’bo.bo.li/) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici , it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden , which later served as inspiration for many European courts.
De Carlo wanted to act. At the encouragement of her friend Artie Shaw, who offered to pay her wages for a month, [38] she quit the Florentine Gardens and hired talent agent Jack Pomeroy. [39] Pomeroy got De Carlo an uncredited role as a bathing beauty in a Columbia Pictures B film, Harvard, Here I Come (1941).
Glamour Over Hollywood - December, 1941 - Florentine Gardens, Los Angeles [15] performed the hula number "A Night in Hawaii" in the eight annual police show at the Shrine Auditorium - May, 1942 [16] an estimated fifteen West Coast rodeos at various venues in the 1940s [17] nightclub appearance at the Cocoanut Grove - October 1959 [18]
The bridge was reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno [4] or taken from the same quarry of Boboli gardens, under the direction of architect Riccardo Gizdulich, who examined florentine archives, and engineer Emilio Brizzi. [5] The missing head of Primavera (Spring) was recovered from the bed of the Arno in October 1961. [6]