Inside the Plaza: An Intimate Portrait of the Ultimate Hotel - Hardcover

Morehouse, III, Ward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557834687 ISBN 13: 9781557834683

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2001

Synopsis

(Applause Books). From Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald cavorting in the Pulitzer Fountain to Ivana Trump patrolling the halls to inspect the rooms, this is the Plaza Hotel as no one has ever seen it, or been permitted to see it. The Plaza is the place where the Beatles headquartered when they invaded America. It's where George M. Cohan held court during the golden era of Broadway. It's where Marilyn busted a strap on cue, where Cary Grant started out from when he traveled North By Northwest, and where Macauley Culkin stayed after staying Home Alone. From the railroad tracks in the basement to the vast luxury suites overlooking Central Park, this is the full story behind the gilded doors, the inside scoop direct from the people who have cavorted there and worked there.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

What do Ward Morehouse III and Kay Thompson's Eloise have in common? The theater critic, playwright and author of a previous hotel biography (The Waldorf-Astoria: America's Gilded Dream) and the six-year-old scamp both did some growing up at New York's fabled Plaza Hotel. In Inside The Plaza: An Intimate Portrait of the Ultimate Hotel, Morehouse details its sparkling history, from the architectural (the hotel's gables and balconies were fashioned by hand) to the social (at the masked ball Truman Capote threw for Katherine Graham, Candice Bergen wore a mask topped with bunny ears). Toss in stories (and black-and-white photographs) of nightclub chanteuses, rock stars and American royalty, as well as tidbits about underground railroad tracks for transporting coal and Prohibition-era liquor sales, and it's an entertaining read for travelers and homebodies alike.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1557834687
• ISBN 13: 9781557834683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239