The Biltmore Los Angeles
Grand nineteen-twenties hotel where Hollywood elite gathered and the Oscars were first conceived.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Biltmore Los Angeles centers on a January night in 1947, when an ex-Army pilot named Robert Manley dropped a young woman off outside the hotel and said goodbye beneath its gilded Rendezvous Court ceiling. It also traces the hotel's own 1923 origins as the largest hotel west of Chicago, and the night, four years later, when three hundred film pioneers founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just off that same room. Stand in the Rendezvous Court and look up at the gold-leaf ceiling the woman walked beneath.
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