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Strand, London WC2R 0EU
His spiritual home. He premiered Private Lives here in 1930, conducted illicit affairs in its suites, and held court in the Grill for fifty years. Gerald Hoffnung caricatured him as furniture.
55 Jermyn St, London SW1Y 6LX
St James's seafood institution, one of London's oldest restaurants. He lunched here with actors, cabinet ministers, and royals — his table was a fixture of London's mid-century establishment.
15 Garrick St, London WC2E 9AY
The actors' and writers' club in Covent Garden. He was a member for decades, dining here after matinees with the theatrical fraternity he both adored and mercilessly satirised.
Grant's Level, Port Maria, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
His Jamaican hilltop retreat, built in the 1950s as a weekend escape from Blue Harbour. Ian Fleming and Katharine Hepburn were regular guests. He is buried here.
Port Maria, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
His main Jamaican home from 1948. He wrote Relative Values and other plays on the veranda. Fleming, Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich all visited. He called Jamaica "my true home."