Description LA Times Bestseller An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick "Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair"I want to live inside this book " --Taylor Jenkins Reid The definitive history of Hollywood\'s most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel For ninety years, Hollywood\'s brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home.
His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comm.
About the Author Shawn Levy is the former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV.
Vivid, salacious, and richly informed, Levy\'s book is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel.
With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths that the Chateau has been a party to.
Until now.
It appeals to the rich and famous not just for its European ambiance but for its seclusion: Much of what\'s happened inside the Chateau\'s walls has eluded the public eye.
While a city, an industry, and a culture have changed around it, Chateau Marmont has welcomed the most iconic and iconoclastic personalities in film, music, and media.
Its singular appearance houses an equally singular history.
Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairytale castle, the Chateau seems to come from another world entirely.
An apartment house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: 1930s bombshell Jean Harlow took lovers during her third honeymoon there; director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood
Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter met poolside and began a secret affair
Jim Morrison swung from the balconies, once falling nearly to his death
John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose in a private bungalow
Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50, 000 in charges in less than two months.
Description LA Times Bestseller An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick "Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair"I want to live inside this book " --Taylor Jenkins Reid The definitive history of Hollywood\'s most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel For ninety years, Hollywood\'s brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home
