The castle on sunset : love, fame, death and scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
Levy, Shawn2019
Book
Chateau Marmont has sat atop the Sunset Strip for nearly a century, like the Rock of Gibraltar. It is a place filled with deep secrets but is hidden in plain sight, and its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Since the dawn of talking pictures, the Chateau Marmont has promised privacy, mystery and a whiff of old glamour. Billy Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gore Vidal and Howard Hughes all spent time as long-term residents in the Chateau. With wit and prowess, Shawn Levy recounts the wild parties and scandalous liaisons, creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, births and untimely deaths that the Chateau Marmont has given rise to.
Main title:
Author:
Levy, Shawn, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019.
Collation:
366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474611831 (hbk)
Dewey class:
979.494979.494LEV
Language:
English
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BRN:
2798917