The iconic pink and green
Beverly Hills Hotel
turns 100 today.
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Originally the hotel was white. |
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Many weddings have taken place here at the BH Hotel, including my best friend, Lisa's. |
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1948: The hotel is painted pink, dubbed the "Pink Palace," as part of a redesign during the 1940's by architect Paul Williams. |
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The famous banana leaf wallpaper is just as iconic as the hotel itself. |
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The red carpet is rolled out all year . |
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Poolside circa the 1950's. |
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The exterior of the hotel was featured on the album cover art of the Eagles' 1976 LP "Hotel California". |
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Svend Petersen, the pool manager at the hotel for 42 years, had notably opened up the pool after hours for The Beatles and taught Faye Dunaway to swim a freestyle crawl for Mommie Dearest. Faye is pictured here, the morning after she won an Oscar for the film Network in 1976. |
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One of my favorites, Rita Hayworth posing during the 1940's. |
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Dean Martin and his posse photographed at a wedding (his perhaps). |
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The sand and pool club opened in 1938. |
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The umbrellas are so cute. |
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Harold Lloyd on the lush hotel grounds. |
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The drive leading to the hotel is breathtaking. |
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Another one of my favorites Carol Burnett. |
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An Easter egg hunt. |
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Cesar Romero and Carole Lombard |
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1942: The El Jardin restaurant is renamed the Polo Lounge, in honor of polo players. (Marlena Dietrich at the Polo Lounge) |
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1957: Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall's film "Designing Woman"
is shot at hotel's pool, Cabana Club.
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Peck and Bacall poolside during a break in filming. |
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1959: Marilyn Monroe relaxing and on a break, while filming "Let's Make Love". |