The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Unabridged) The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Unabridged)

The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The definitive—and salacious—history of the iconic hotel that Hollywood stars have called a home away from home for almost a century.

“Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight.... This is the definitive book about Hollywood’s most storied hotel.” Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild


Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel, the Chateau has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose; and Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months.

But despite its mythic reputation, much of what has happened inside the Chateau’s walls has eluded the public eye—until now. With wit and insight, Shawn Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons, the creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, the births and deaths to which the hotel has been a party. Vivid, salacious, and richly informed, The Castle on Sunset is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
MC
Mike Chamberlain
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:56
hr min
RELEASED
2019
May 7
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
402.8
MB

Customer Reviews

cz103158 ,

For Chateau Lovers, This Isn’t For You

I was very interested in reading Shawn Levy’s take on the hotel. Levy initially wanted to write a book on the Sunset Strip, and that is exactly how this book reads. There’s no passion behind honing in on the Chateau Marmont. A lot of it is on the hotel’s surrounding history.

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