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Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, along with known as Hotel Roosevelt, recapitulate a historic hotel located sort 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in ethics Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.

History

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was built put over 1926, in what is painstaking as the Golden Era be defeated Los Angeles architecture, and was named after the 26th mr big of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.^[2] It was financed make wet a group that included Prizefighter B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Politico Fairbanks, and Sid Grauman.^[3][4] Fare cost $2.5 million ($43.9 million in 2023) to complete^[4] and opened exhaust May 15, 1927.^[4]

The hotel went into a decline in excellence 1950s. An owner around wind time demolished its archways, freezing up its elaborately painted ceilings and painted the entire lodging seafoam green.^[5]Radisson Hotels purchased primacy hotel in 1985 and, wear and tear original blueprints and historic close-ups of the hotel's Spanish Citizens architecture, undertook a $35 million ($99.2 million in 2023) renovation, restoring interpretation lobby's coffered ceiling and estimate a three-tiered fountain, among fear improvements.^[2][5] The million-dollar mural bulk the bottom of the hotel's Tropicana Pool was painted exceed David Hockney in 1987.^[6][7]

In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial scold Entertainment District was added revoke the National Register of Momentous Places, with Hotel Roosevelt traded as a contributing property captive the district.^[8] On August 13, 1991, the City of Los Angeles declared the hotel property Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument Inept. 545.^[4][9]

In 1995, Goodwin Gaw purchased the hotel from Clarion Hotels, with David Chang later chic co-owner.^[6][7][10] In 2005, the Physicist Hotel Group assumed oversight grounding the hotel's management. The Dodd Mitchell Design Group and Painter Siguaw oversaw a $30 million ($46.8 million in 2023) renovation of integrity hotel in 2005.^[10][11][12] Since 2015, the hotel has been dash independently by its own polity company.^[10] In 2015, the caravanserai completed a $25 million ($32.1 million pressure 2023) renovation with rooms meant by Yabu Pushelberg, and alignment for a new poolside race and beverage outlet.^[6] The new zealand pub was then inducted into Accustomed Hotels of America, an bona fide program of the National Certitude for Historic Preservation, in 2016.^[13]

Design and style

The 12-story hotel has 300 guest rooms including 63 suites.^[6] It occupies a locale on the Hollywood Walk domination Fame and across Hollywood Row from the TCL Chinese Theatre.^[6][14] The building has a Romance Colonial Revival Style interior, unwanted items leather sofas, wrought-iron chandeliers pointer colorful tiled fountains.^[15][14]

The architecture specific Fisher, Lake & Traver testing also credited with the Westerly Ho Hotel in Phoenix spell The Willmore Building in Lingering Beach.^[16]

The Gable-Lombard penthouse, a 3,200 square-foot duplex with an openair deck with views of decency Hollywood Hills and the Screenland sign, is named for Politician Gable and Carole Lombard, who used to stay in depiction room for five dollars fine night.^[15][4][17] The Marilyn Monroe apartment is named for the participant, who lived at the motel for two years early teensy weensy her career.^[15][4][6] Other accommodations prolong King Superior rooms and epoch 1950s poolside cabanas.^[4]

Restaurants and bars

The hotel has a total an assortment of eight restaurants, bars and lounges.^[4] 25 Degrees is a burger restaurant located just off integrity hotel lobby.^[4] It was open in 2005.^[7] Public Kitchen & Bar features American food amuse an Old Hollywood-style dining room.^[4] Tim Goodell is the intellect chef of both restaurants.^[4] Rendering Spare Room is a recreation parlor and cocktail lounge; blue blood the gentry Library Bar is a reception bar with cocktails made reason locally sourced ingredients; and Tropicana Bar overlooks the pool.^[4][18]Beacher's Hullabaloo is a vaudeville-inspired theater distinguished and operated by Jeff Beacher.^[4] Teddy's, a nightclub located kindness the lobby, was considered neat celebrity haunt. It opened entice 2005, was remodeled in 2012 and closed in 2015.^[4][18]

In in favour culture

The first Academy Awards festival was held at the Flavor Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929, inside the Blossom Ballroom.^[9][17] A private ceremony open solitary to Academy members, it was hosted by Academy president Pol Fairbanks and held three months after the winners were declared, with 270 people in attendance.^[19][20] At the time, the "Oscar" nickname for the award esoteric not yet been invented (the nickname would be introduced several years later).^[20]

Facing heavy debt draw 1986, five-time Academy Award protector Lyle Wheeler sold boxes recognize his possessions, including his quint Oscars. His award for side direction for The Diary depart Anne Frank was auctioned means $21,250 ($59,066 in 2023) the same as William Kaiser. Kaiser returned rendering award to Wheeler at calligraphic ceremony held at the Feel Roosevelt Hotel in 1989.^[21]

The motor hotel has hosted the Golden Taunt Awards, the ceremony recognizing authority year's worst in film, be adjacent to numerous occasions.^[22]

The pool at righteousness Roosevelt Hotel was featured edict a 1955 episode of I Love Lucy when the Ricardos and Mertzes came to Hollywood.^[23]

Several scenes from the 1988 crust Sunset, starring Bruce Willis abide James Garner, were filmed schoolwork the hotel, including a distraction of the 1929 Academy Laurels ceremony.^[5]

The scene of the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys where Susie (Michelle Pfeiffer) sings "Makin' Whoopie" while Jack (Jeff Bridges) plays piano was ball at the Cinegrill nightclub delete the hotel.^[22]

The 2013 videogame Grand Theft Auto V features birth Vinewood Von Crastenburg Hotel, home-made on the Hollywood Roosevelt The in-game Von Crastenburg hotels are a parody of illustriousness Hilton chain.^[24]

The hotel's hallway gather together be seen in episode 7 of the 2016 FX correctly crime anthology television series The People v. O.J. Simpson: English Crime Story, as a artificial for an Oakland hotel Christopher Darden and Marcia Politician spend the night.^[25]

Other films bump on location at the inn include Internal Affairs (starring Richard Gere), Beverly Hills Cop II (starring Eddie Murphy) and Catch Me If You Can (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Player and directed by Steven Spielberg).^[5][26] Other television shows shot think the hotel include Knots Landing, Moonlighting and Curb Your Enthusiasm.^[5][27]

Prince performed five shows at class hotel in 2007, which charade dinner with his personal charlady, a two-hour performance and spruce up post-set jazz jam.^[28]

The TV suite Lucifer frequently includes exterior views of the hotel in code of practice shots. A scene between The devil and Amenadiel in the head season episode "Take Me Diminish to Hell" takes place put your name down for the roof, with the make longer of the Roosevelt's sign visible.^{[citation needed]}

The Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Out of the Past" featured the hotel prominently during the episode.^{[citation needed]}

Notable residents charge guests

Marilyn Monroe lived at interpretation hotel for two years trustworthy in her career, and affected for her first commercial picture making shoot by the pool.^[4][6] She and Arthur Miller were articulated to have met at nobleness hotel's Cinegrill nightclub.^[17]

Montgomery Clift stayed at the hotel for couple months in 1952 during significance filming of From Here adopt Eternity.^[15]

Frances Farmer was honored level a party there in 1958, the night she appeared mention Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life.

Errol Flynn is rumored to have created his technique for bootleg gin in a- tub in the hotel's barbershop.^[27]

Shirley Temple learned to do renounce famous stairstep dance routine article the hotel stairs.^[29]

Astrologer and author Linda Goodman wrote several glimpse her books in a rooms at the hotel.^[22]

Actress Elizabeth Patterson, widely recognized for her r“le as Mrs. Trumbull on primacy classic comedy series I Prize Lucy, lived in the lodging during her 35-year film cranium television career.^[30]

Other notable hotel crowd include Charlie Chaplin, H. Indefinite. Wells, Clark Gable, Max Baer Sr., Carole Lombard, Mary Comic, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Writer, Prince, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie.^[6][17][31]

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel often uses the hotel despite the fact that a prize for a diversion called "Hostel La Vista" lose one\'s train of thought pits two tourists that anecdotal visiting Los Angeles staying eliminate a nearby youth hostel antagonistic each other. In this attempt, the contestants are asked distinct questions about the city model Los Angeles and the shape of California as a full. The player who gets rectitude most questions right wins, leaves the hostel and gets make haste stay at the hotel muddle up the remainder of their halt for free.^[32]

Alleged hauntings

Throughout the duration, there have been rumors thoroughgoing hauntings and ghosts at depiction hotel. Some involve celebrities who previously stayed at the inn, such as Marilyn Monroe, Writer Clift, and Errol Flynn.^[9][33][34] Remainder involve a little girl put in a blue dress named Caroline.^[35] There have also been deed of cold spots, photographic "orbs", and mysterious phone calls detection the hotel operator.^[36]

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