![]() ![]() ![]() Famous real-life residents included Joan Crawford, Sylvia Plath and Grace Kelly.ĭavis moves back and forth between the early 1950s and the present day as a journalist seeks to uncover past secrets of women who came of age at the hotel and continued to live there thanks to rent-control laws after the building was converted to condominiums in 2005. Men weren't allowed above the ground floor, curfews were enforced, and a strict code of conduct for behavior and dress was enforced. Former actress and journalist Fiona Davis' debut novel, "The Dollhouse," is as much about a place as it is about people.īuilt in 1927, the 23-story Barbizon Hotel for Women on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for most of its history served as a home away from home for actresses, models and other women seeking a career in the big city. ![]()
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