It was home to the first Academy banquet, the fourth awards ceremony — and, legend has it, where the Oscar statuette was first sketched on a napkin.
The big winners that night were Best Actor winner Lionel Barrymore and Best Actress Marie Dressler. “There was a little stir and some chuckles in the audience,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “when [child star] Jackie Cooper, seated at the speaker's table… had found the proceedings too much for him and was slumbering peacefully with his head on Marie Dressler’s shoulder.”
All in all, eight Academy Awards ceremonies i were held at the Biltmore Bowl — in 1931, 1935 to 1939, 1941 and 1942. The ceremony became a powerful marketing tool for the Biltmore Hotel and a point of pride.On Jan. 9, 1947, at around 6 p.m., a striking pale woman entered the Olive Street lobby of the Biltmore Hotel. Her name was Elizabeth Short, known to history as the tragic Black Dahlia.
Short made numerous calls during her stay at the Biltmore, drank Cokes at the bar, and paced nervously, clearly waiting for someone. Finally, at around 10 p.m., it appeared her latest call was successful. She then purposefully strode out of the lobby, newly invigorated. Hodel writes: “She never smiles or acknowledges anyone; she seems to be frightened and looking for someone,” Janice Oberding writes in“There is also the story of a man who rode the elevator with a beautiful dark-haired woman…neither said a word…she got off first and was gone before he realized what direction she went. It was only later when he saw a photo of her that he realized he’d shared the elevator with the Black Dahlia ghost.”The Biltmore is also the site of a mystical mystery.
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