Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Quotes

“Wikipedia: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel”

“(September 29, 2024), "I Stay In Marilyn Monroe's Site At The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel!", Walk With Me Tim, YouTube”

“... The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture is only one of the unique feature this hotel holds. ... On August 13, 1991, the City of Los Angeles declared this building Historic Cultural Monument #545. The Roosevelt is a reminder of Hollywood's visual splendor from the magical 1920s and is one of the most visited hotels in Los Angeles.”

“When the Roosevelt Hotel's swimming pool opened in April 1950, the management at Hull Hotels publicized it; it was the hotel's first pool. It lured industry publicists to show off new talent using the pool area in a background for photography shoots. Marilyn Monroe was photographed in the pool, and it was reported that she stayed in room 1200 for a time in the mid-1950s.”

“Opened in 1927 at 7006 Hollywood Boulevard, the Roosevelt Hotel was and still is a major landmark. With 400 rooms in 12 stories, the hotel was originally the home of the Academy Awards and has hosted countless industry functions. The original Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and details were covered during the 1940s and 1950s but were restored in the 1960s.”

“In a ceremony to mark a 1950 hotel expansion, airline hostesses added containers of water from oceans around the world to the new swimming pool, and Esther Williams was invited to test the heated waters. Illinois Wesleyan University purchased the Roosevelt from Thomas Hull and his sister, Sally Crofwell, in the mid-1950s.”

“Michael often mentions Anita Page, another subject included in The Sound of Silence. I share his enthusiasm for this star of silent and early talking pictures. When I was under contract to MGM in 1929, Anita was the darling of the lot, MGM's young glamour girl. She was everyone's favorite, and I shall never forget her kindness to me. Warm and outgoing from my first introduction to her, she invited me to her birthday party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel — a dinner-dance on the famous Roof Garden. For one starry-eyed guest it was some enchanted evening.”

“It was just after 8:00 p.m. on May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and the first Academy Awards were being handed out. There was no red carpet, little press, and even less suspense, the winners having been announced three months earlier. The ceremony wasn't even broadcast over radio. After just fifteen minutes, the awards had been handed out, and the guests turned their attention back to their desserts. "Nobody felt there was any historical significance," Janet Gaynor recalled. Gaynor was there to receive her Merit Award for Best Actress, as it was called there, but she was more excited about meeting Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.”

“When Monty returned with the company to California to shoot all the interiors at Columbia Studios he moved to a suite in the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Hollywood. ...
He could not bear to be alone, and if he was, he would often hang out of his Roosevelt Hotel window tootling on his bugle. He had friends with him constantly, particularly the Greens and actor Jack Larson; above all, he spent endless hours with Jones and Frank Sinatra.
The three of them became inseparable during the filming of From Here to Eternity.”

“The Roosevelt has also been a radio and television studio. In the 1930s, Russ Columbo broadcast a national radio show from the Roosevelt's Cinegrill—and in the 1950s and 1960s TV's This Is Your Life came live from the hotel. The famous hotel has also been a location for numerous films, including Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Internal Affairs (1990), and Charlie's Angels 2 (2003). It is especially memorable in the 1998 version of Mighty Joe Young, where the monster ape climbs atop Grauman's Chinese Theater while police helicopters circle the Roosevelt's landmark Cinegrill neon sign.”

“As the movie business grew in the 1920s, shrewd businessman Charles Toberman (1880-1981), known later as "the father of Hollywood," developed signature properties, often with leading film stars as investors, to attract tourists and others to the area. In 1927 he opened the 12-story steel and concrete Hollywood Hotel to meet the need for both accommodations and glamour. Named after President Theodore Roosevelt to give it instant status, the hotel hosted the first Academy Awards in the Blossom Room on May 16, 1929. The Spanish Revival complex contains over 300,000 square feet, including the original tower with its famous penthouse suite and a two-story poolside 1950s cabana-style buildings nestled among tall palm trees. Harrison B. Traver (1881-1973), who also worked in Long Beach and Fresno, is given credit for the hotel's design.”

“A 1927 newspaper ad touted its grand opening as "the dominant social occasion of the year." "Don't wait," it enthused. "You will see the greatest number of stage and screen stars ever assembled. Among those invited were: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Pola Negri, Richard Barthelmess, John Gilbert, Harold Lloyd, Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Rod La Rocque, Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Clara Bow, Sid Chaplin, Sid Grauman, Wallace Beery, Charles Chaplin ... and scores of others. And most of them came ...”