James Dean hopped in through a window to audition with Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo for Rebel Without a Cause.Jim Morrison used up what he called "the eighth of my nine lives" after he hurt his back here while dangling from a drain pipe and falling onto a shed while trying to swing from the roof into the window of his hotel room.In 1982, John Belushi died of a drug overdose in one of its garden bungalows.Gram Parsons also lived there for a time in the early 1970s. Featured on the cover of Gram Parsons' solo album, GP, released in 1973.It is reported that Keanu Reeves lived in the hotel after his rise to stardom until 2003 when he purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills.The Chateau Marmont has catered to a large celebrity clientele over its 80-year history. The chef is Carolynn Spence, originally of New York's Spotted Pig. The hotel has a restaurant featuring California cuisine.
The bungalows are like miniature case study houses. Two of the four bungalows at the Chateau Marmont were designed by Craig Ellwood, in 1956, after he completed Case Study Houses. Nine cottages were built in the 1930s, next to the hotel, which were acquired by the hotel in the 1940s. The Chateau Marmont was designed and constructed as earthquake proof, and has survived major earthquakes in 1933, 1953, 1971, 19, without sustaining any major structural damage. The hotel was bought in 1990 and is currently owned and managed by Hotels AB, run by hotelier Andre Balazs. In 1931 the building was changed to a hotel. The Chateau Marmont opened in February 1929 as an apartment house, but high rents and the Depression kept renters away. His project turned into the Chateau Marmont, named for the street running across the back of the property. It has served as the backdrop for a number of events in the lives of well-known rock stars and actors.įred Horowitz, a local attorney, began construction on the hotel in 1927. Built in 1927, and modeled loosely after the Château d'Amboise, in France's Loire Valley. The Chateau Marmont is a hotel at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.
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