The Roosevelt Hotel is a world famous hotel that is located in Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is named after Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States. The hotel was built with private donations from famous Hollywood personalities, such as Mary Pickford, Louis Meyer, Douglas Fairbanks, and one of the investors was Charlie Chaplin. The hotel opened in 1927.
The Roosevelt Hotel is also a historic landmark in the city. Nearby are the Hollywood Walk of Stars, the Chinese Theater, which hosts the bulk of movie premieres, the Kodak Theater, where the Academy Awards are held. A short drive away are the Universal Studios movie theme parks and the luxurious Beverly Hills neighborhood of the city. On May 16, 1929, the Roosevelt Hotel hosted the first and shortest (5 minutes) ever, Academy Awards ceremony (13 statuettes awarded in total). Since the hotel was founded, it has been attached to the status of “home of the stars”. Bruce Willis, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harold Lloyd and many other celebrities have stayed here at various times. A little known star at the time, Marilyn Monroe, posed for the first time in the hotel pool to advertise sunscreen.
Very interestingly, the Roosevelt Hotel is believed to be home to at least two ghosts: Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe. Clift lived at the hotel in 1953, where he was rehearsing his role for the movie “From Now and Forever and Ever.” It is said that his ghost often appears in his former room 928, wandering the hallways and playing the trumpet. And Marilyn Monroe’s image is repeatedly reflected in the mirror that was once in her favorite room and today stands in the hotel lobby. In addition to the ghosts of Monroe and Clift, other ghosts of famous personalities, such as George Reeves, have been seen here.
Parapsychologists, investigating these unusual phenomena, came to the opinion that such a cluster of ghosts in the same place is associated with the first Oscar ceremony and therefore the ghosts of famous people do not leave the hotel without attention. The Roosevelt Hotel often acts as a movie set. After the renovation in 2005, the hotel became even more popular among the young Hollywood generation because of the trendy nightclub Teddy’s, which is located on the first floor of the hotel.