Chateau Marmont — Los Angeles, United States
About Chateau Marmont
The Chateau Marmont's reputation among actors and musicians precedes it: Howard Hughes's penthouse is specifically Room 64, James Dean jumped through the roof of Bungalow 2, Belushi died in Bungalow 3, but none of the history of writers' lives here come with a room number attached. This may partly be about era and documentation style. The literary stays (Fitzgerald in the late 1930s, Parker in 1947, and West writing The Day of the Locust sometime in the mid-to-late '30s) predate the hotel's later habit of assigning cultural mythology to specific numbered rooms, which seems to have crystallized more around the rock-and-roll and film-star era from the '60s onward. Today, you won't find public data on literary floors, footprints, or manuscipts, let alone rooms, to help you. commune with the literary legacy that's here, just beneath the surface. However, there is a notable literary artifact…
Literary significance
No themed rooms tied to writers. The hotel does have named/reimagined suites (Ryan Murphy recently redesigned two: one styled to the hotel's 1920s art deco origins, one channeling the Led Zeppelin-era rock history), but these are Hollywood/music-themed.
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Location
8221 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046, United States