Chateau Marmont, LA
- Address: 8221 Sunset Blvd
- Vicinity: Marmont Ln
- Neighborhood of Hollywood, CA in Los Angeles
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1928/04/00 | William Douglas Lee | Shell Architect, Construction Supervisor | Construction begins on attorney Fred Horowitz chateau in the hills halfway between Movietown and Los Angles. | |||
1929/02/01 | Arnold A Weitzman | Architect | Chateau Marmont opens as a residential hotel in Hollywood, CA. | |||
1933/03/10 | The solidly built Chateau Marmont rides out the Long Beach earthquake with a little shaking but no damage. | 1933 Long Beach Earthquake | ||||
1934/08/00 | Billy Wilder | Home | Billy Wilder moves into the windowless room at Chateau Marmont. Furnished with a hot plate, but no window, Wilder decorates his little abode with his impressionist paintings. | |||
1934/12/00 | Billy Wilder | Home | Wilder returns to the Chateau Marmont, with no rooms available, he sleeps in closet near the womens room for a few days. | |||
1938/00/00 | Hedy Lamarr | Guest | When registering at the Chateau Marmont, Hedy Lamarr forgets that Louis B Mayer had spelled her stage name with two Rs. Lamarr spends her first few nights in LA at the Chateau before sharing a house with Heather Massie. | |||
1947/00/00 | Montgomery Clift | Guest | During the filming of the interior scenes for "Red River", Montgomery Cliff stays with Libby Holman in her suite at the Chateau Marmont. | |||
1951/08/22 | Dorothy Parker | Guest | Dorothy Parker of 216 S Westgate, West Los Angeles, checks into the Chateau Marmont. | |||
1960/11/00 | John Cheever | Screenwriter | While staying in the 'Mitzy Gayner' penthouse at the Chateau Marmont for 5 weeks in November-December, John Cheever produces a film treatment of D H Lawrence's "The Lost Girl" for producer Jerry Wald. It will not be made into a film. | |||
1960/12/00 | John Cheever | Author | Paid for by 20th Century Fox, John Cheever can admire the giant rotating Las Vegas showgirl statue (lost) that advertises the Sahara casino from his suite at the Chateau Marmont. | Angel Of The Bridge (Short Story) | ||
1966/06/22 | Hoisted 60 feet, pianist Liberace is uses a Tiki torch to symbolically light a 4-foot candelabra held by the rotating statue atop the Sahara Hotel billboard on the Sunset Strip. The stunt publicizes his new 2-year, $500,000 contract with the hotel. |
Particulars for Chateau Marmont, LA: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | Chateauesque |
Architectural Style | Gothic Revival |
Owner | Private |
Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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Angel Of The Bridge (Short Story) | Short Story | John Cheever | Outside my hotel window was a monumental statue of a young woman, advertising a Las Vegas night club. She revolves slowly in a beam of light, At 2 am the light is extinguished, but she goes on restlessly turning all through the night. | |
Myra Breckinridge | Book | Gore Vidal |
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