Jean Harlow was the first truly famous star that stayed at the hotel. That struck me as very awful and poignant. Even telling you the story now after having written it and read it a million times I find myself appalled. Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate got pregnant there and left because Sharon didn’t want to bring a baby back to a hotel.
What was one of the most surprising things you came across in your research? Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Black, white, gay, straight-so long as they paid their bill, they were welcome guests. That started in the 1940s when the owner at the time, German anti-fascist Erwin Oskar Brettauer, decided that everyone would be welcome. The Chateau couldn’t offer you luxury, but it could offer you a good location, and it could offer you quiet and privacy. How important has the Chateau’s famous discretion been to its success? There are stories of people working on the same film-like Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll on Porgy and Bess-and both staying at the Chateau and not realizing it for weeks. There were units that you can enter and leave without being in the building at all. They didn’t add a restaurant or bar until the ’90s. It was originally built as an apartment house, which meant that every unit was self-enclosed and that there was no lobby, restaurant, or bar. It’s small, only 63 rooms-there might be more rooms than that on one floor of the Hollywood Roosevelt. It’s got an incredible location right at the gateway to the Sunset Strip. There are many hotels in the city that have storied pasts. He spoke to us about the book, the hotel, and the Chateau’s decades of debauchery. Levy, a Portland, Oregon-based author, has written eight previous books, from a bio of Paul Newman to a history of swinging 1950s Rome. His gossipy book, years in the making, delves into the dramatic ups and downs of the uniquely private institution over its 90-year lifespan, from its early days as an apartment building when the Sunset Strip was nothing more than a dirt road to its current glossy, André Balazs incarnation (Aaron Sorkin and John Krasinski are already adapting it into an HBO series). If you don’t want to be seen, go to Chateau Marmont.” In his new book, The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, Shawn Levy shows just how true that is. They think she was the daughter or wife of someone who died in the hospital.” Guests also report lightbulbs are unscrewed in lamps during the night, and the safety locks have locked themselves in vacant rooms.When it comes to Los Angeles lodgings, there’s an old saying: “If you want to be seen, go to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Two room attendants were making a room in the back and one attendant saw the woman make the other bed. Trudy, a staff member who has been with the company for 20 years, says: “What haunts us is a young woman who wears a long, lacey white dress. He's been seen in his grey uniform, and is often heard saying things like "She doesn't love me anymore."Ĭheck into Building 500 (one of the hotel’s 5 building units), which stands on the spot where the hotel lived through various businesses and is supposedly the most haunted.
Many of the land’s longtime residents still appear, including a Confederate soldier who refuses to leave. The grounds were finally transformed into a hotel in 1961. It served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers, then later burned down in 1874. In one of the most haunted cities in the world, Provincial has a long, dark history.
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