Chateau Marmont

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When [[Rock Hudson]] met his first live-in lover [[Kenneth G Hodge]] in 1947, Ken was living in the penthouse of the Chateau Marmont, "a building owned by his aunt Bernadette..." according to Rock's biographer.
 
When [[Rock Hudson]] met his first live-in lover [[Kenneth G Hodge]] in 1947, Ken was living in the penthouse of the Chateau Marmont, "a building owned by his aunt Bernadette..." according to Rock's biographer.
  
A few years later, in 1953/4 [[Shelley Winters]] mentions that producer Nick Ray has then a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont.
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A few years later, in 1953/4 [[Shelley Winters]] mentions that director Nicholas "Nick" Ray has then a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont.  He would later direct James Dean in ''[http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/rebel-without-a-cause Rebel Without a Cause]'' (1955).
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In 1954 or 1955, [[James Dean]] hopped in through a window at the Chateau Marmont to audition with [http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/natalie-wood Natalie Wood] for ''[http://sites.google.com/site/movielegends/rebel-without-a-cause Rebel Without a Cause]''
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When [[Montgomery Clift]] was almost killed in 1956, [[Elizabeth Taylor]] brought him to the Chateau Marmont, where she leased the penthouse as a place for him to recuperate.
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John Belushi died of a drug overdose in one of the garden bungalows at the Chateau Marmont in 1982.

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