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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 ....

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