282: The Notorious Chateau Marmont: The Castle On the Hill (Part 1)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Check in to one of Hollywood's most infamous hotels with part 1 of a 3-part series on the historic Chateau Marmont hotel. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!) Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Guest produced by Brian Fernandes. Shawn Levy is the bestselling author of The Castle on Sunset in addition to Paul Newman: A Life, Rat Pack Confidential, King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, and Dolce Vita Confidential. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, American Film, Interview, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Black Rock Beacon. He is the author and narrator of Glitter and Might, a podcast about Hollywood mogul and political kingmaker Lew Wasserman. To learn more, go to https://shawnlevy.com/. Mark Rozzo is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and author of Everybody Thought We Were Crazy, now in paperback. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Oxford American, the Washington Post, and many others. He teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia University. To learn more, go to https://www.markrozzo.com/. Guest produced by Brian Fernandes. Source: https://bit.ly/3rR1Quf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.8	Home on homes. The notorious Chateau Marmont Part 1.
1:15.0	I'm Jason Horton.
1:17.0	I'm Rebecca Leib.
1:18.0	And this is Ghost Town. The Oh, 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California isn't much to look at from the outside.
1:52.4	Shaded by a red brick wall and thick hedges, the driveway is easy to miss, a nondescript path lost in the busy sunset strip, but make the turn and you'll find yourself at the base of the Chateau Marmont.
2:03.0	A modest hotel, at least by LA standards.
2:06.0	63 rooms packed with nearly 100 years of dense, scandalous, heartbreaking and inspiring
2:12.0	Hollywood history.
2:13.0	History that feels as cliche as it sounds, larger than life.
2:18.0	But it is.
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