Stanley Hotel, Nairobi film "The Ghost and the Darkness", also found his inspiration while staying at the Stanley. Elspeth Huxley, author of "The Flame Trees of Thika", "The Mottled Lizard", "Red Strangers", and other books, frequented the Stanley Hotel and used it as a setting for several of her works. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", a 1936 short story by Ernest Hemingway, takes place at the New Stanley Hotel. In 1947, it was adapted into "The Macomber Affair", a film starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett, which was shot at the hotel. Citations Sources Stanley Hotel, Nairobi The Stanley Hotel (currently
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Life": Francis runs away from a lion, which is what most sensible men would do if faced by a lion, and his wife promptly cuckolds him with the English manager of their big-game hunting expedition. As we all know, good wives admire nothing in a husband except his capacity to deal with lions, so we can sympathize with the poor woman in her trouble. But next day Macomber, faced with a buffalo, suddenly becomes a man of superb courage, and his wife, recognizing that[...] for the future she must be a virtuous wife, blows his head off. [...] To say