Pretty Women Have Stayed At The Beverly Wilshire

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Pretty Women Have Stayed At The Beverly Wilshire

Author: Stephen Schochet

Since it was built in 1929, The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
has attracted rich and famous guests from around the world. To
the general public the hotel is most famous for being used in
the 1990 movie Pretty Woman. They have disappointed thousands of
people by turning down requests from around the world who would
like to stay in the same suite that Julia Roberts and Richard
Gere had in the movie because it does not exist, it was filmed
at the Walt Disney studio.

Julia Robert's character in the film was not the only pretty
woman who stayed there. In the 60's the hotel became a swinging
hangout for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson, with parades of
women going in and out of their rooms. A little old lady who
stayed beneath Beatty constantly banged her ceiling with her
broom, to try and get him and his lady friends to stop making so
much noise.

Not everyone was having fun in the hotel. Michael Caine spent
his honeymoon there with his beautiful wife Shakira. Caine was
and is a favorite of the staff. In honor of Shakira they decided
to give them the authentic Indian honeymoon suite. In India, the
honeymoon beds hang from the ceiling with bells hanging from the
bottom. The neighbors like to hear the bells go off for the
happy couple, but in this case Shakira was already pregnant and
Caine was jetlagged. All they wanted was to get some sleep but
they couldn't do it because of the blankety blank bells! The
English actor ended up ordering four hamburgers from room
service and stuffed the buns into the bells so that they could
get through the night!

About the author:
Stephen Schochet is the author and narrator of the audiobooks
"Fascinating Walt Disney" and "Tales Of Hollywood". The Saint
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