Having San Diego's Queen Anne–style Hotel del Coronado—about 120 miles south of Los Angeles—portray a Florida resort was a stroke of geographic luck, according to Some Like It Hot director Billy Wilder.
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The Hotel Hollywood, in Los Angeles, boasts room #306, the “Marilyn Monroe Room” where she stayed in the 1950's while working for 20th Century Fox.
During the years she was based in New York, the Beverly Hills Hotel was where she stayed when filming commitments took her to Los Angeles; in 1958, shooting for Some Like It Hot, and in 1960 for Let's Make Love – perhaps her longest sojourn when for four months she and husband Arthur Miller lived in neighboring ...
During the mid-twentieth century, the hotel continued to be a hub for the Phoenix elite, political, social, as well as a destination for Hollywood stars. Mae West, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Harry James, and Kay Starr all spent time at the Hotel San Carlos.