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3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

3400 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

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People Associated with this address:
     Tallulah Bankhead
DATE(S): 1930s Ambassador Hotel, Siesta Cottage

John Barrymore
DATE(S): 1930s Ambassador Hotel, Siesta Cottage

Cosmo Kyrte Bellew
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, stage and movie actor

Paul Bern
DATE(S): 1930 census records, apartment house at Ambassador Hotel

Julius Bernheim
DATE(S): 1930s executive, Ambassador Hotel

F. Scott Fitzgerald
DATE(S): 1930s Ambassador Hotel, Siesta Cottage, with Zelda

David Wark "D.W." Griffith
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, legendary director

Joseph Hergesheimer
DATE(S): 1920s Ambassador Hotel, bungalow

Herbert Hockheimere
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, studio employee

Howard Hughes
DATE(S): 1925 Ambassador Hotel, first residence upon arrival in Los Angeles

Jeanette MacDonald
DATE(S): 1930 census records, silent and sound films, Ambassador Hotel

Victor Milner
DATE(S): 1940s

Wilson Mizner
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, told Herbert Somborn, "If you know anything about food, you can sell it out of a hat." Samborn then opened the Brown Derby.

Benjamin Montague
DATE(S): 1930s census records, Ambassador Hotel

Pola Negri
DATE(S): 1920s Ambassador Hotel, bungalow

Louise Ritter
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel

Freeman Rollins
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, studio employee

John Stoll
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel, studio employee

Gloria Swanson
DATE(S): 1930s Ambassador Hotel, Siesta Cottage

Irving Thalberg
DATE(S): 1930 census records, Ambassador Hotel

Rudolph Valentino
DATE(S): 1920s Ambassador Hotel, Siesta Cottage

George Walsh
DATE(S): 1921-1922 Ambassador Hotel


Movies/TV Shows Associated with this address:
   A Star is Born
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Almost Famous
former Ambassador Hotel was setting of hotel set in film

   Apollo 13
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Aviator
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Crazy in Alabama
scenes filmed at the Ambassador Hotel

   Daredevil
interiors used as backstage areas

   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ambassador Hotel

   Forrest Gump
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   L.A. Story
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Minority Report
scenes filmed at Ambassador Hotel

   Mr. Saturday Night
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Old School
Ambassador Hotel

   Pretty Woman
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006; ballroom was used to film scene where Julia Roberts learned about silverware and later had sex with Richard Gere on the piano

   Rocky
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   S.W.A.T.
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   Se7en
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   The Boy-Next-Door
entire film done at the Ambassador Hotel

   The Doors
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   The Graduate
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006

   The Mask
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006; the entrance to the Cocoanut Grove (the round entrance in front) was setting of the entrance to the Coco Bongo Club in the film

   The Naked Gun
one of hundreds, if not thousands, of films made at or around the Ambassador Hotel, demolished in 2005-2006


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