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It’s the city that never sleeps… and never was that truer
than in the heyday of Manhattan nightlife – the post-war 1940s and the Golden Age of the 1950s. 

In the age of jazz, the Cotton Club was where it was at.

By the time it was disco’s turn to rule, Studio 54
became the place to be and be seen. But before disco, New Yorkers and aspiring New
Yorkers flocked to the likes of El Morocco, the Stork Club and
the Copacabana.

They were a home away from home for the rich, the famous and the glamorous.

They were places to drink and dance the night away, escape the
wartime darkness and embrace the 50s. No matter what was happening outside inside, life was golden. And in most cases, the clubs have
long been consigned to history – and mythology.  

El Morocco – or Elmo as it was known to regulars – ruled the roost,
with its famous zebra print banquette seating and an endless throng of Hollywood celebrities
milling around with society movers and shakers,
titans of art and literature, business and sports. The crowd was eclectic – and always exclusive. 

 Marilyn Monroe dances the night away with Truman Capote
at El Morocco on March 24, 1955. Capote described an encounter with Monroe
in his 1980 book Music for Chameleons. A 2001 re-print included the photograph of Monroe
and Capote dancing on the book cover

 Elizabeth Taylor with her first husband Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton Jr.
at El Morocco in 1950. She was just 18 when they married in May 1950 and
the wedding was the social event of the year but the marriage was short-lived.

He was a violent, abusive drunk. Taylor announced their separation in December 1950
and was granted a divorce a month later on the grounds of mental cruelty

Taylor also dined at Elmo with her third husband, the producer Mike Todd (pictured together in 1957).
At the time of their union, Taylor was 24 and Todd,
49. The third of her seven husbands, he was the only one she didn’t divorce.
He was killed in 1958 when his private plane, the Liz,
crashed in New Mexico, leaving Taylor a widow and single
mother to their daughter Elizabeth Frances (Liza)

(From left to right) Jack Warner, Natalie Wood, Rock Hudson, Phyllis Gates in 1956, a year after
Hudson married Gates and starred alongside Wood in the film One Desire.

Gates filed for divorce in 1958 and never remarried

(From left to right) Actor Jackie Gleason, artist Salvatore Dali, El Morocco owner John Perona, and singer Johnny Ray in 1954.
Perona was the owner of El Morocco until his death in 1961, when his
son Edwin Perona took over. Maurice Uchitel bought the club from
Edwin later that year

Gloria Swanson and a companion pictured on the iconic
zebra print banquet seating in 1950. After achieving fame for her work in silent
films, Swanson won a Golden Globe in 1951 for her portrayal
of Norma Desmond in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.
She divorced her fifth husband in 1946 and did not remarry until 1976

Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minelli pictured with Judy’s
third husband Sid Luft in 1956. Luft produced the 1954 film A Star is Born,
which starred Garland and James Mason. Garland was nominated
for an Oscar for her role but lost to Grace Kelly. The couple had two children and separated in 1963

Marlene Dietrich smiles while playing the violin for Jean Gabin at
the Elmo on July 14, 1943. The two dated from
1941 to 1948 and starred in the 1946 French crime film Martin Roumagnac (The Room Upstairs)

Marilyn with her then-husband, baseball legend Joe DiMaggio,
on September 12, 1954. The pair married in January
1954 at City Hall. Their marriage blew up after the
two fought on the set of The Seven Year Itch, and divorced the same month this photograph was taken

John Wayne and his wife, Pilar Pallete at El Morocco
on January 4, 1955. Wayne and Pallete met in Hawaii while she
was still married to Richard Weldy and they wed
on November 1, 1954. Wayne and Pallete separated in 1973 but remained married until he died
in 1979

Actor Milton Berle at dinner with a companion at El Morocco on December 8, 1956.
Millions of television viewers referred to Berle as Mr.

Television during the first Golden Age of television. His entertainment career
began to decline in the 1960s after The Milton Berle Show
ended in 1956

(From left to right) Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida,
Laurence Oliver, and Kirk Douglas appear entertained
during the European star’s going away party at El Morocco in 1950.

Lollobrigida and Douglas did not appear in films together,
but the pair were photographed together at several events in the
1950s

Regulars included business magnate Aristotle Onassis (always
seated at table one). Hollywood crème de la crème Marlene Dietrich, Henry
Fonda and Marilyn Monroe hobnobbed with New York’s biggest names (the Rockefellers
and the Astors), European royalty and society doyennes. 

It was there that Elizabeth Taylor dined with her husbands; there that Humphrey
Bogart started a fight over a stuffed panda  – and got thrown out.
And it was from there that Zsa Zsa Gabor was banned for life (or at least until the club’s owner John Perona died) after she spat in his face for
taking out her sister and refusing to buy her a new
mink coat, according to Air Mail. 

Little wonder then that gossip columnists staked the place out, and the legendary columnist Liz
Smith spent almost every night at Elmo in the late 50s.

The McGuire Sisters Chris, Phyllis, and Dorothy (left to right)
smiled for the camera at El Morocco in 1957. The singers signed with Coral Records in 1952 and were named
Godfrey’s Merry McGuires by Cosmopolitan magazine in 1953

Cary Grant smiled at actress Betsy Drake while dancing with her at El Morocco nightclub in 1950.
The entertainers wed in 1949 and played a married couple in the 1952 film
Room for One More. The two divorced in 1962 and remained friends until Grant died in 1986

The first-ever visual image of Breakfast at
Tiffany’s character Holly Golightly was shown at the El Morocco
nightclub in 1957. The photo that illustrated Truman Capote’s novel
of the same name was featured in Esquire Magazine in 1958.
The book was made into a film in 1961, starring Audrey Hepburn

Actor Charlie Chaplin danced with Betsy Cushing Roosevelt Whitney at the El Morocco in New York on October 13, 1940.
He was married to Paulette Goddard. Whitney was
the former daughter-in-law of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was
one of the most prestigious figures in New York society

(From left to right) Restaurateur Bernard ‘Toots’ Shor, Marian Shor, Frank Sinatra, and a guest at
El Morocco on November 30, 1944. Sinatra, a regular at El Morocco, was known for his
$100-$150 tips. The singer was also a regular at Toots Shor’s restaurant on 51st Street until it closed in 1971

El Morocco had been a nightclub frequented by celebrities between the
1930s-1950s. Attendees would usually come with dates or be part of a
large group of guests. Regulars dubbed it Elmo

Elmo was known for its ubiquitous zebra print which appeared throughout the club, was
plastered across the booths and even on the club’s matchbooks 

But Elmo was far from the only joint in town.

It wasn’t just the rich and famous who needed somewhere to dance away
their cares and let their hair down. Among the clubs now consigned to history – and mythology – were the Havana-Madrid,
and the Stork Club. Leon & Eddie’s and the Vanity Fair became popular among discharged soldiers, partly because of the
lure of the can-can dancers. 

The singers and can-can dancers of the New York City nightlife scene won over audiences with their talent and
seductive outfits. 

Performers were dolled up in sparkly dresses and headpieces that
would cost as much as $500 per outfit.  

Clubs like Vanity Fair and Copacabana may have provided enough female entertainment to dazzle the crowd without
needing singers like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin to perform. 

(From left to right) Actress Merle Oberon, John Jacob Astor, and tennis star Frank Shields got together for a
night on the town at the Havana-Madrid nightclub in New York
on April 20, 1938. It is unclear how these three are connected,
but Shields, who died in 1975, is the grandfather of actress Brooke Shields

(From left to right) Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortes, club owner Benito Collada, and Puerto
Rican singer Rosita Rios had drinks at El Chico in New York on November 22, 1944.
Collada and Rios were mutual friends with Alfredo Gonzales,
whose Fiesta Hop fundraiser in 1948 featured Collada and Rios as the
star performers

Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona O’Neill were all smiles at the Stork Club in New York on April 10, 1947.  O’Neill, who was his fourth
wife, married Chaplin despite her being 18 and he being 54.

The couple remained married until his death and had eight children

(From left to right) Tom Lewis, actress Loretta Young,
comedian Rosalind Russell, and her husband, Fredrick Brisson, had drinks at El Morocco on September 19, 1953.
Young had just begun hosting The Loretta Young Show on September 2,
where Russell appeared as a guest.

Milton Berle visited the Stork Club on November 24, 1941 with Joyce Matthews –
an actress and show girl whom he married that year. Berle and
Matthews divorced in 1947 and remarried in 1949, divorcing for a second time just one year later.

Berle married three more women and Matthews wed four more men prior to
their deaths

Betty Reed and murky financier – and convicted draft-dodger –
Serge Rubinstein raised their glasses at Nino’s La Rue supper club in January 1955.
Rubinstein was murdered hours after returning home from
the club on January 27, 1955. He was found with his hands and feet bound by cord and tape covering his nose and mouth.
The United Press rated his unsolved murder one of the biggest stories of 1955.

A year later the movie Death of a Scoundrel, loosely based on Rubenstein’s life, was released

The future I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball at the Stork Club in 1945.
She had roles in films from the 1930s before starring in I Love
Lucy with her then-husband and co-star Desi
Arnaz from 1951 to 1957. Ball and Arnaz made several appearances at the Stork Club during the 1940s
after they eloped in 1940

Humphrey Bogart with his wife, Lauren Bacall, in the Cup Room in the Stork Club
in 1949. Bacall was Bogart’s fourth and final wife before he died in 1957.
The legendary actors starred in the 1944 film To Have and Have Not, eventually naming
one of their children after Bogart’s character

(From left to right) Martha Hemingway, actor Gary Cooper, his wife Veronica Balfe,
and Ernest Hemingway sat at a booth during a get-together at the Stork Club in 1943.
Cooper starred in a film adaption of Hemingway’s book For Whom the Bell
Tolls the same year. The actor received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Robert Jordan

Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund gave one of her first public performances at the Basin Street East nightclub on December 15, 1959.
The 22-year-old sang on The Steve Allen Show one month later.  The
jazz songstress died in 2005 after releasing more than 20 studio albums

Jazz pianist and bandleader Lionel Hampton was known to
excite the crowd in his shows, one taking place at the Band
Box in the summer of 1953. He collaborated with several musicians during his
career and was awarded the National Medal of Arts award in 1996

Actress Gene Tierney and Prince Aly Khan were caught by a cameraman at the Copacabana nightclub
on November 8, 1954. The two began dating while Khan was married to film star Rita Hayworth
and were engaged from 1952 to 1953 despite being met with disapproval
from Khan’s father

Actor and World War II Veteran Harold Russell helped his wife, Rita Russell-Nixon, light a cigarette in the Cub room at the Stork Club in 1946.
Russell had lost both of his hands in 1944 and became the first non-professional actor to win an Academy Award
in 1946

Actress Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, spent a night out at the Stork Club in 1945.
The television actress at a bottle of Sortilege – the Stork Club’s house perfume.
The fragrance was created by Le Galion French perfumery
and because wealthy clients purchased bottles, the Stork Club gave the perfume to their guests as
a gift and called it the fragrance of the Stork Club

Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli made an appearance at
the Stork Club in 1945. The pair married in 1945 at a church in New York City.
Garland gave birth to their daughter, Liza Minnelli, in 1946.
Garland and Minnelli divorced in 1951 and after his death
in 1986, he left his Beverly Hills Home to Liza 

Orchestra leader Artie Shaw and Ava Gardner smoked cigarettes together in 1945 at a table in the Stork Club.
Gardner and Shaw married that year after the actress divorced her
first husband, Mickey Rooney. Shaw had been married to four women before Gardner, while
the clarinetist was Gardner’s second marriage. The pair divorced in 1946

John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie Kennedy, were smiling at their table in the
Stork Club on May 8, 1955. Kennedy had made several appearances at the Stork
Club

Actress Paulette Goddard and her husband, Burgess Meredith, ate in the Cub
room at the Stork Club on December 27, 1946

Performer Jimmy Durante opened for eleven nights at the
Copacabana on March 27, 1952. He loved having fun with the dancers and found stardom in comedy films like Meet the Baron and Hollywood Party

Actress Lana Turner and orchestra leader Artie Shaw pictured eating together at the Stork
Club on November 14, 1941. The two eloped in 1939 after meeting two
years prior and filed for divorce four months later. The
two began planning a second marriage in 1941, but Turner went on to marry Joseph Stephen Crane in 1942

Chorus girl Rosemary Schaefer was one of the many dancers
that entertained guests at the New York Vanity Fair nightclub on January 31, 1947.
The shows that took place at the venue on Broadway and 49th Street include wounded soldiers in the audience who would also
watch dance rehearsals

Singers and dancers at the Vanity Fair nightclub would participate in the venue’s preview shows – a set of public performances
that take place before the official opening. These shows were likely one of the things that made guests interested in going to the Vanity Fair nightclub in the 1940s

Can-can dancer Lyda Alma participated in high energy
routines at Leon & Eddie’s, including this one on March
3, 1950. The shows were a regular thing at the nightclub that was originally a speakeasy in the basement of a converted house

The Village Barn was a country music nightclub in Greenwich Village that had various activities, including the Hobby-Horse race on March 3, 1950.
The first country music program on network television took place at the Village Barn and the
venue is now the home of Electric Lady Studios

Actress Patricia Hardy made several appearances at the famous Copacabana nightclub in New York, one
being on September 5, 1951. The star began her career by performing at the club with Danny Thomas
and Jimmy Durante

Showgirls Mickey Miller, Betty Anderson, and Rosemary Kittelton showed off
their beautiful costumes during a routine that opened a New York French nightclub
on June 20, 1952. The costumes cost $500 each, which
today is estimated at nearly $5,600 per outfit

Strip tease artist Lili St. Cyr performed at the Club Samoa nightclub on August 10,
1952. A burlesque dancer, St. Cyr was known to include bubble baths in her routines.
She retired from dancing in the 1970s and ran a lingerie business until her death on January 29, 1999

Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley spent January 1,
1952 with four female models at his New York club.
Prior to creating the Stork Club, the former bootlegger owned several
drug stores throughout New York City and started a real-estate office to help him acquire more

Jazz clubs were a highlight of New York City nightlife thanks to its musicians who played music that made all club goers
want to dance in 1955. Many jazz clubs were located throughout 52nd Street and Times Square, Harlem, and
Greenwich Village

Concert promoter Lou Walters opened the Latin Quarter
in 1942 with a French New Orleans theme. Mardi Gras de Paree was a popular show at the
nightclub that featured Doreen Lord. Lord was known as the woman in the champagne glass who impersonated a goldfish
and did so onstage at the nightclub on February 8, 1956

The Audobon Theatre and Ballroom was becoming a popular venue to hold dance activities in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Dance events began taking place in the
1950s and the annual New York Mardi Gras Festival occur at the Audobon every year

Actress Christine Jorgensen was known as the first person to be widely known for
having sex reassignment surgery in the US.
She began performing shows at the Cafe Society Club in Greenwich Village after the procedure.

One of her routines she did at the club on April
28, 1956 featured her dancing in red ballet shoes

The Audobon Theatre and Ballroom was also used as a movie theater and meeting hall after it was built in 1912.

Meetings that took place at the venue were attended by many
political activists, including Malcolm X

Its popularity in the 1950s was in part due to events related to religious services and union meeting events.
However, it was shut down shortly after Malcolm X
was assassinated in the venue on February 21, 1965.
The building was acquired by the state of New York in 1967 and
was permanently closed in 1980

El Morocco had grown to be a popular nightclub at the height of
cafe society that provided a unique atmosphere for club goers that were inside and outside the entertainment industry.

Guests would arrive wearing fancy attire and be ready to eat,
drink, or dance

Whiskey was a favorite order in the 1950s jazz clubs, but guests would also order The Southside cocktail and Mai Tais

Dancer Helen Haynes performed to Guy Warren’s Love,
The Mystery Of at the African Room nightclub in 1958.

Haynes would also occasionally perform at the nightclub with fellow dancer Jon Lei.
The African Room was allegedly the only club in the US
at the time that offered authentic African singing and dancing

The Latin Quarter became expensive after Lou Walters sold
his share of the nightclub in 1956. It became known as a nightclub that was more expensive than the Copacabana with a show that was ‘a bit bigger, nakeder, and
longer’

Shows at the Latin Quarter continued to draw in crowds
throughout the 1950s. Other than dancers, the nightclub also featured headliners such as
Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, and the Andrews Sisters

Rock and roll clubs began opening up at the end 1950s. One popular location was Trude
Heller’s – a Greenwich Village nightclub that opened in the 1950s and operated from the 1960s-1980s with swing music and go-go dancers

Rock and roll clubs have helped legendary singers start their
careers. Entertainers who performed acts at Trude Heller’s that launched their careers were Duane and Gregg Heller from the
Allmand Brothers, Cyndie Lauper, and the Manhattan Transfer

The Stork Club, already having many a-list regulars, had hat check girls work in cloakrooms.
One of the rooms at the nightclub in 1940 was full of military hats

Guests at the Stork Club were expected to adhere to a dress code, men wearing suits and
women wearing gowns with silk gloves. Men were also required to wear neckties with their
suits. Those who arrived without, were lent one
or had to buy one before entering the club

Stork Club owner Sherman Billingsley insisted that all of the guests
have an orderly conduct while in the venue. Fighting,
drunkenness, and rowdiness was prohibited. He also controlled the seating placement within the club

A balloon night in the early 1940s may have been one of the Stork Club’s most popular
events. Each balloon that fell from the ceiling contained
either folded $100 bills or various prizes

Participants had the chance to win items such as diamond bracelets or cars at
the Stork Club’s balloon night. Numbers found inside the balloons instead of $100 bills would be matched with others that were listed on their prize chart

(From left to right) Actress Joan Leslie seemingly entertained
three New York debutantes at the Stork Club on August 13, 1941.
The star appeared in six movies in 1941, including High Sierra
and The Great Mr. Nobody

The Stork Club did not have a guest limit, but its last location was
big enough to fit over 2,000 people. Starting out as a tenant in the Physicians and Surgeons Building, Sherman Billingsley
bought the entire seven-story location to use for
the club for $300,000 in 1946

Lieutenant Douglas Fairbanks grinned from ear to ear while relaxing at the Stork Club
in 1942 with his wife, Mary Lee Epling, and actor Roland Young.
The lieutenant was on leave after many months of active duty at sea.
Outside of his military career, Fairbanks had film roles
in The Prisoner of Zenda and The Corsican Brothers

The behavior Sherman Billingsley required of all guests at the Stork
Club was not always followed by the celebrity clientele.
Actor Humphrey Bogart was banned after arguing with Billingsley.
Milton Berle was also barred for too much shouting and table-hopping

Actress Constance Bennett and United States Air Force Colonel John Theron Coulter smiled at their table in the Stork Club in March 1946.

The film star and war hero wed that year and remained married until
Bennett’s death in 1965 at age 60

(From left to right) Brigadier General Elliot Roosevelt, his wife,
Faye Emerson, and columnist Walter Winchell were settled at their table in the
Stork Club with drinks in 1945. Roosevelt, the son of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, married Emerson in 1944. The two divorced in 1950, and despite her connection to the Roosevelts, Emerson supported Dwight D.

Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election

(From left to right) John Randolph Hearst, William
Randolph Hearst, Jr., and Captain Randolph Heart dine together at the Stork Club in 1945.
The three men were sons of William Randolph Hearst Sr.,
who founded Hearst Communications in 1887 and became
a member of the US House of Representatives

(From left to right) Faye Emerson, Marsha
Hunt, Sherman Billingsley, Elliot Roosevelt, George G. Nathan, and Julie Hayden were seated in different areas at the Stork Club one night in 1948.

Billingsley, who promoted elegance at the Stork Club, appreciated the celebrity
clientele he had during its prime years

Prince Carl Johan of Sweden and Mrs. Kerstein Wijmark at the Stork
Club on February 18, 1946. Johan had renounced his right to
the throne so that he could marry Wijmark, who was a commoner.

They wed later that year and were married for 41 years

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz made their first appearance as a married couple at the Stork Club in 1946.
The entertainment duo married in 1940 after having met while filming the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls.
Divorced 20 years later, Ball and Arnaz remained good friends

Producer and screenwriter Alfred Hitchcock dined with actress Claudette Colbert at the Stork Club in 1946.
Hitchcock was known for his many films, including The Lady
Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt. In the years after this picture was taken, Hitchcock created
film classics To Catch a Thief and Psycho in 1955 and 1960

Sherman Billingsley was happy to have Joan Crawford be at the Stork Club on April
29, 1951 for a party in her honor. Crawford, who
was a dancer before an actress, attended the party before meeting her fourth and final husband,
Alfred Steele. She was also married to Stork
Club guest, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. from 1929-1939

(From left to right) Cuban-born actor and bandleader Desi
Arnaz, Ruth Cosgrove, and Milton Berle smiled for
a photo at their table in the Stork Club in January
1953. The photo was taken prior to Berle being barred from the club

Don Ameche shared a table with actress and television host Kyle MacDonnell at the Stork Club in 1950

(From left to right) Ernest Hemingway, Mary
Welsh Hemingway, Slim Hawks, actor Spencer Tracy, actor-producer
George Jessel, and Leland Hayward had a friendly get together at the Stork Club on June 27, 1953.
Hemingway was negotiating a deal to turn his book The Old Man and the Sea into
a movie. The film adaptation was released in 1958 starring Tracy as The Old Man

(From left to right) Actress Joan Crawford, comedian Ed Wynn,
and Wynn’s wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt celebrated the actress at a Sunday night party at
the Stork Club in 1951. Despite Crawford being affectionate with Wynn, the two stars never acted
alongside one another and Wynn and his wife divorced in 1955

Janis Carter had a girls night out at the Stork Club
after leaving the New York nightclub with four friends in 1950.
Carter, a popular stage and film actress, had starred in three movies that year.
She eventually retired from acting in 1956 before marrying lumber and shipping tycoon Julius Stulman in 1956

Producer Leland Hayward sat next to his then-wife Slim at the Stork Club in 1949.
The entertainers got married in the estate owned by CBS president William S Paley that year, and kept it a secret until the
pair left for their honeymoon. The actress and producer
divorced in 1960

(From left to right) Fashion designer Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, a female
companion, and Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo attended a
party at El Morocco. The two men, under the names Valentino and Oscar de la Renta, have designed clothing for
Hollywood stars for several years and would talk with one
another at public events until Fiallo died in 2014

(From left to right) Robert Scott, his mother, Mabel Boll, and Theodore Cella sat together at the El Morocco
nightclub in 1941. Boll was known as the Diamond Queen for
her large collection of jewelry. She married Cella one year
before the photo was taken and maintained good relationship
with her son until his death in 1942

Actress Mary Pickford embraced John Perona, owner and operator of El Morocco in his New York nightclub in 1945.
Pickford was married to Charles Buddy Rogers when this picture
was taken. Rogers was a band leader and film actor who occasionally made
appearances with Pickford at El Morocco. He was the actress’
third and final husband 

(From left to right) Marlene Dietrich, Eddie Fisher, Dietrich’s daughter Maria Riva, and a
male friend hung out together at the El Morocco nightclub in 1953.
The picture was taken six years before Fisher married Elizabeth Taylor and began going
to El Morocco only with her. Riva, who began working on CBS
television, was one of the first stars of the early kinescope-era television 

El Morocco had similar standards to that of other elegant nightclubs in New York.

Guests were expected to be formally dressed in suits
and long dresses. However, it is unclear if the El Morocco club
owner arranged the venue’s seating

Charlie Chaplin and Al Jolson shared a few laughs at the
El Morocco nightclub on March 28, 1947. The two entertainers had been friends for many years prior to
their outing at the New York club. They were photographed together at various events and
Jolson even visited Chaplin on a film set in 2018

(From left to right) Actor Bruce Cabot, starlet Rita Hayworth and heiress
Gloria Vanderbilt were all smiles at their table in El Morocco in 1941.
Cabot and Hayworth co-starred in the 1939 film Homicide Bureau.
Vanderbilt, a successful fashion designer and socialite, was the
subject of a high-profile custody case between her mother and aunt in the 1930s

Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw made multiple appearances at
El Morocco nightclub, one being in 1945 before their wedding.
Gardner was married to the entertainer from 1945 to 1946.
Shaw, who was known for his many marriages, wed Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor the year he and Gardner divorced, but it was annulled in 1948  

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher spent time at El Morocco on May 15, 1959,
the year they got married. Taylor and Fisher began dating while he was
married to Debbie Reynolds. Their affair became a public scandal, and people thought Taylor was a homewrecker.
The actress admitted after their divorce in 1964 that
she married him because of her grief over Mike Todd

Like the Stork Club, El Morocco had many lavish party for its
guests, and visitors who were not members of the rich and famous were
invited to attend. Their New Year’s Eve parties were
a big hit at the club that celebrities would go to when they were available

Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner smiled for a photo at El
Morocco in 1957, which was the year they got married. Wood and Wagner divorced in 1962 and
remarried in 1972. The Rebel Without a Cause star died under mysterious circumstances
in 1981 and Wagner was named a person of interest in 2018

Many guests at El Morocco ordered alcohol drinks, some even bought
bottles for their entire tables. The nightclub also had a champagne room for private dining, which
was frequented by clientele who were members
of cafe society

Johnnie Ray was a talented singer and pianist who played at the
El Morocco nightclub in 1954. Known as the father of rock and roll, Ray was highly popular in the
1950s and starred alongside Marilyn Monroe in the 1954 film There’s No Business Like Show Business

Besides its celebrity guests and zebra motif, the El Morocco was a
fun place for couples to dance, one being watched by several dinner
guests on March 6, 1955. The dancing was top-notch, but it was not what made El Morocco a
go-to nightclub of the 1950s

Nightlife in New York was one of the things that helped bring positivity to people
during the Second World War. Wounded soldiers who were home also found happiness in the dancers and other acts that would perform
at these clubs in the 1940s-1950s that helped make the venues
so popular during that time

Most of the nightclubs around today no longer exist
or closed down permanently between the 1960s-1980s.
However, there have been some cases where the venues
that once closed down became reopened, including the legendary Copacabana nightclub that reopened on February 5, 2022 

An unknown female singer sang her heart out at the La
Vie Parisienne in New York on December 18, 1942.
The French club was located at 3 East 52nd Street
and became the La Grenouille restaurant in 1962 that serves fantastic food and live jazz music

Showgirls and several other dinner guests enjoyed dancing at Leon & Eddie’s nightclub
in New York on April 14, 1944. Leon & Eddie’s was popular in the 1930s-1940s during the World War II era in Times Square and closed in 1958 after Leon Enken retired

While New York nightclub owners began protesting against War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes’ midnight curfew request, Nicky Blair opened the Carnival nightclub.

The place became a New York hot spot on 51st Street in the 1940s

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