Cinegrill: Roosevelt Hotel’s Film-Themed Hotspot
Dec 18, 2023
3 min read
True to its name, the Roosevelt Hotel’s Cinegrill paid tribute to the motion picture industry: A wall mural depicted the history of film, with scenes starring everyone from silent actors like Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri, and John Bunny to the contemporary Shirley Temple.
A place that honored yesterday’s pioneers, it was frequented by “today’s stars” of the 1930s such as Bette Davis, Claudette Colbrert, Marlene Dietrich, Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, and Joan Blondell (and later in the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe).
Cinegrill was also a favorite of writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Arthur Miller.
