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unusual facts about At the Hotel



Rosa Laborde

As a film and television actor, her credits include appearances in the television series Puppets Who Kill, 1-800-MISSING, At the Hotel, Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks, History Bites, Regenesis, The Line, InSecurity and Saving Hope, and the films Blur, Jack and Jill vs. the World and The Lady of Names.

Tom McCamus

Currently McCamus is dividing his time between theatre and film work, and has recently starred in the CBC film Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story as famous hockey dad Walter Gretzky, the Canadian production Shake Hands with the Devil, and in the Ken Finkleman miniseries At The Hotel.


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1888 Michigan Wolverines football team

After eating supper at the hotel, the team attended a performance of Francis Chassaigne's "Nadjy" at the Chicago Opera House.

1994 Progress Party national convention

The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel Bolkesjø Turisthotell in Bolkesjø, Telemark.

2006 European Mountain Running Championships

Teams arrived in Trutnov, at the Hotel Patria on 7 July and the competition officially began on 8 July in Malé Svatoňovice at the bottom of the Jestřebí Mountains (16 km from Trutnov, 5 km from Úpice).

Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz

They lived first at the Hotel Royal, before Alfonso and his younger brother Gonzalo were sent to the Collège Saint-Jean in Fribourg.

Birkdale Palace Hotel

What's Good for the Goose, starring Norman Wisdom, and The Haunted House of Horror (which was also filmed at the nearby Bank Hall in Bretherton), were both filmed at the hotel, with most of the indoor scenes in What's Good for the Goose making use of the hotel's public areas.

Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel

In May 1940, after a meeting of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee at the hotel, their leader Clement Attlee telephones Downing Street with the news that Labour would join a National Government but not if Chamberlain was Prime Minister.

Concourse Plaza Hotel

Many star players from the home teams – including Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Frank Gifford of the Giants – stayed at the Concourse Plaza, and visiting players would also stay at the hotel.

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra

The orchestra later moved to New York City for an 11-month broadcast engagement at the Hotel New Yorker arranged by William S. Paley, who needed a star attraction to induce radio stations to join the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Dream Days at the Hotel Existence

Dream Days at the Hotel Existence was recorded at Sunset Sound Studio, Los Angeles, California, in early 2007 by producer Rob Schnapf, best known for his work with Beck and The Vines.

Egmond aan Zee

It is usually held in December, at the Hotel Zuiderduin, and is traditionally the last tournament held before the World Championship.

Fiesta de Locos

In an interview for Spanish newspaper El País, singer Residente claims that watching the band live was enough for him to "hallucinate"; both him and his brother Visitante claimed to have the basic structure of the song written later that night at the hotel they were staying.

François Roger de Gaignières

Dr. Martin Lister visited him at the Hôtel de Guise in 1698 and admired his collection.

Fritz Knipschildt

After training at the Hotel and Restaurant School of Denmark, Knipschildt worked in the Mont Blanc area of France twice, and also in southern Spain.

Georgian Terrace Hotel

Musical performers providing concerts at the hotel included Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Patti Smith, and Bruce Springsteen.

Girl with a Red Hat

It was bought at a sale at the Hôtel de Bouillon, in Paris on December 10, 1822 (no. 28.) by Baron Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin (1784-1856), then owned by inheritance to his nephew and adopted son, Laurent Atthalin; by inheritance to Baron Gaston Laurent-Atthelin (died 1911), Les Moussets, Limey, Seine-et-Oise; by inheritance to his wife, Baroness Laurent-Atthelin of Paris.

Gold Hill, Colorado

The Mines was immortalized in verse by poet Eugene Field, who stayed at the hotel while working as a newspaper man in Denver.

Grand Rapids Hotel

Some people claim that gangsters referred to as the Chicago Outfit associated with Al Capone would take the train from Chicago and stay at the hotel.

Hale Koa Hotel

Glenn Medeiros is the host and performs at the hotel's twice weekly luau.

Holbrooke Hotel

Several notable people stayed at the hotel including “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Lotta Crabtree, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bret Harte, Jack London, Lola Montez, Emma Nevada, Mark Twain, and five US Presidents: Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover.

Lya Lys

At one time the two were neighbors at the Hotel Navarro near New York’s Central Park.

Man on a Ledge

Meanwhile, Nick's ex-partner, Mike Ackerman (Anthony Mackie), arrives at the hotel with evidence that Nick is planning something and demands to be allowed into the hotel room.

Marie Anne de Bourbon, Duchess of Vendôme

Marie Anne was born and lived at the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, where her father was abusive to her as well as her mother, Anne Henriette of Bavaria.

Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She went often to Turin, the kingdom's capital, where she established yet another salon at the Hôtel Feder.

Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel

In the Garry Marshall film Beaches, a young Hillary Whitney stays with her family at the hotel, where she treats a young C. C. Bloom to chocolate sodas in the Garden Court.

Marriott Wardman Park

Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed on November 20, 2008, while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington D.C. at the hotel.

Messier object

Messier lived and did his astronomical work at the Hôtel de Cluny (now the Musée national du Moyen Âge), in France.

Nobody Sees

The second track is the live performance of the song taken from their Across the Great Divide tour performance at the Brisbane Powerhouse in October 2007, and the final track, "Wishing on the Same Moon", is also from the Powerhouse performance, and also originally from Dream Days at the Hotel Existence.

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2012

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2012, was held at the Hotel Crowne Plaza of Torreón, Coahuila on July 5, 2012.

Odette Hallowes

Churchill's operation in France was infiltrated by Hugo Bleicher, an Abwehr counter-intelligence officer, who arrested Odette and Churchill at the Hotel de la Poste in Saint-Jorioz on 16 April 1943 and they were then sent to Fresnes Prison.

Omni Royal Orleans

The Led Zeppelin song "Royal Orleans" is purportedly based on an incident involving the band members at the hotel during the 1970s.

Pebaluna

The band has played regularly at The Hotel Café and has opened for Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate.

Photinos Panas

He was the first professor of ophthalmology at the University of Paris, and in 1879 established the ophthalmology clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

The animated marble figures of the cardinal's parents, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife, together with a Battle Relief and a winged Genius are today installed at the Hôtel-Dieu in Cluny, a fragment of the heraldic Tower in a granary of the abbey.

Pierre-Joseph Desault

The clinical school of surgery which he instituted at the Hôtel-Dieu attracted great numbers of students, not only from every part of France (Pierre Bouchet from Lyon for example) but also from other countries; and he frequently had an audience of about 100.

Polo Lounge

The high command of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (Richard Nixon) in 1972 was staying at the hotel during a west coast fund raising trip, and having a breakfast meeting in the Polo Lounge when Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy placed his fateful call to Committee Deputy Director, Jeb Stuart Magruder.

Pretty Smart

It was mostly filmed in Athens with most interiors and some exteriors at the Hotel Grande Bretagne.

Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith

The studio was located at the Hotel Pennsylvania, across the street from the world famous Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.

Regent Hotel

More recently the cast and crew of the British comedy Keeping Up Appearances including Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift and Geoffrey Hughes stayed at the hotel whilst filming in Leamington.

Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City

Among the celebrities who performed at the hotel during its heyday were Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, Red Nichols, and Milton Berle.

Roy Choi

In June 2013, Choi along with fellow chefs, Wolfgang Puck, and David Chang convened at the Hotel Bel-Air to fuse different styles such as ggaejjang style and kochujang onto the Hotel Bel-Air menu.

Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece

While at the hotel, Shawn listens into Detective Lassiter's (Timothy Omundson) brief about the investigation, and gains valuable information.

Tadoussac, Quebec

The film The Hotel New Hampshire based on the 1981 John Irving novel was shot at the Hotel Tadoussac and released in 1984.

Tataouine

Tataouine's name became famous when George Lucas, who filmed the original Star Wars film in various locations of Tunisia (for example, the Lars Homestead, filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata), named Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine.

The Planetworkshops

In Partnership with Point Afrique solidarités and the Pierre Rabhi Foundation, the Planetworkshops initiate a training center in agroecology located 150 km away from Niamey, at the Hotel La Tapoa.

The Victor Disc

Anastasio and McConnell popped into a downtown recording studio sometime after midnight, decided to play, and phoned Fishman and Gordon back at the hotel, asking them to join.

Wayne, New York

Hoagy Carmichael was the pianist and vocalist at the hotel for two seasons and local legend has it that his hit Stardust was written while at the Keuka hotel.

Wilhelm von Gloeden

He lodged at the Hotel Vittoria before buying a house near San Domenico.