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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
Going through my late father's stuff recently, I found this letter:
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
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About "The Garden of Eden."
Since the High Hopes song (which won the Best Song Oscar for 1959, by the way) was just released around this time, by Capitol Records, and the movie was to come out about three weeks later, and the fact that Sinatra mentions "Capitol Records" in this letter, I'm thinking this was a promotion party that Capitol Records arranged for the song or the movie or both, and The Garden of Eden isn't an actual place in Los Angeles, but just what they called the promotional party as it was the name of the Hotel they were trying to save in the film. It was a promotional thing. The location probably kept a secret, hence transportation provided from the Puccini location in Beverly Hills. It might've been something arranged at the Capitol Records building
Just a guess.
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Here's a mad suggestion for the secret party location.
If you search the RSVP phone number (HO 2 - 0580) on the invitation letter, it's only listed once, in 1960 for 583½ N. Windsor Blvd.
In the same building at 583 lives a woman named Eden Ryl.
rescarta.lapl.org
So the guests can mingle out in Eden's garden - The Garden Of Eden.
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