Since 1929 Hollywood's brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a
second home. An apartment building-turned-hotel the Chateau has been the backdrop for
generations of gossip and folklore: where director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old
Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood Jim Morrison swung from the balconies John Belushi
suffered a fatal overdose and Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50 000 in
charges in less than two months. But despite its mythic reputation much of what has happened
inside the Chateau's walls has eluded the public eye-until now. With wit and insight Shawn
Levy recounts the wild revelries and scandalous liaisons the creative breakthroughs and
marital breakdowns the births and deaths to which the hotel has been a party. Vivid salacious
and richly informed The Castle on Sunset is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from
inside the walls of its most hallowed hotel.
