Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

The Roosevelt Hotel is a historic Spanish-style hotel located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Named after Theodore Roosevelt and financed by a group including Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer, it first opened its doors on May 15, 1927. It cost $2.5 million to complete this twelve-story building which holds 300 rooms and suites. It is now managed by Thompson Hotels.

Following a major renovation in 2005 which was overseen by Dodd Mitchell, The Roosevelt has been more prominently featured in films and in Hollywood nightlife. There has been a recent surge in popularity within young Hollywood in the last few years, thanks to trendy nightclub Teddy's, which is located in the main lobby of the hotel.

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel hosted the presentation of the 1st Academy Awards in 1929 inside its Blossom ballroom. Later ceremonies were much larger than this banquet for 250, so there was never an attempt to host the awards at the hotel a second time.

Frances Farmer was the guest of honor in the early 1950s after appearing on This Is Your Life. Marilyn Monroe was a resident at the Hollywood Roosevelt for two years when her modeling career took off. Her first magazine shoot was taken on the diving board on the pool behind the hotel, which was recently removed. The hotel's remodeled pool contains an underwater mural painted by David Hockney.

Paranormal Claims

• People claim that Marilyn Monroe haunts a mirror that once hung in her cabana.
• People claim to have seen Marilyn Monroe dancing in the ballroom.
• There are claims of cold spots and voices heard in the room that Marilyn Monroe stayed.
• People claim to hear Montgomery Cliff playing his bugle.
• People claim to see an apparition of Montgomery Cliff walking the hallways of the 8th floor.
• Cold spots have been reported within the ballroom.
• A man dressed in black is reported to be haunting the ballroom.
• Voices have been heard in empty rooms and hallways.
• Lights turned on in empty rooms.
• Phones have been lifted off the receivers in empty rooms.
• A maid was pushed into a supply closet.
• A typewriter began typing by itself in the middle of the night in an empty, locked office.
• A man in a white suite has been seen walking through a door and vanishing.
• Bedspreads that were hung on a rod n the basement began moving on their own.
• A little girl was seen playing in the lobby and then vanished.
• Strange shadows have been reported on the 9th floor.
• In room 928, employees have reported cold spots.
• In room 928, a strong presence is felt as if they are watching you.
• In room 928, a guest was touched on the shoulder.

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