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Waking up to New York: secrets of the world s most famous women-only hotel Heading for greatness: a woman walks through the lobby of the Barbizon Hotel for Women at 140 East 63rd Street in New York. Photograph: Dave Pickoff/AP Heading for greatness: a woman walks through the lobby of the Barbizon Hotel for Women at 140 East 63rd Street in New York. Photograph: Dave Pickoff/AP From Grace Kelly to Joan Crawford and Sylvia Plath… Many of the residents of the Barbizon hotel went on to change the world SharonWalker Sun 14 Mar 2021 08.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 10.49 EDT The Barbizon guest list reads as a who’s who of Hollywood and literary royalty. Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, Tippi Hedren, Liza Minnelli, Ali MacGraw, Jaclyn Smith and literary stars Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion were among the household names who arrived as young unknowns. So it’s surprising that we’ve heard so little about it. While New York’s rock’n’roll Chelsea h ....
Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Checking In! Grace Kelly, Little Edie, Liza Minnelli, and the Untold History of the Barbizon Hotel for Women How one Manhattan boarding house became the epicenter of 20th-century celebrity and glamour. By Paulina Bren Hearst Owned Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, requests for rooms at the Barbizon Hotel for Women grew exponentially. Meche Azcarate from Mexico, for example, was forbidden by her mother to stay anywhere other than the Barbizon. But even if left to her own devices, she would never have wanted to stay anywhere else; she loved “the atmosphere of a sorority house,” where “you can never run out of bobby pins.” The hotel manager Hugh J. Connor, with the help of assistant manager Mrs. Mae Sibley, was now finding it a challenge to coordinate all the various reservations ....
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