With her career as an actress declining, Russian-born actress Alla Nazimova was forced to sell her mansion at 8152 Sunset Boulevard in the late 1920s. The property was purchased by a real estate developer who added 25 bungalows and opened the facility as a hotel called the The Garden of Alla. The name was intended to capitalize on the actress's popularity, but the spelling of the name was eventually changed to Allah.

Whatever the name, the hotel proved to be very popular with film celebrities. Among those who frequented the Garden of Allah in the 1930s were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, and Clara Bow, along with writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Dorothy Parker.

In the 1940s, however, the Garden of Allah began to lose its appeal, and by the the 1950s the hotel was deteriorating from lack of maintenance. Ultimately Allah's Garden was razed in 1959, taking with it all but the memories of Hollywood's wildest celebrity playground.