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Hotel of the Stars (Jon Bang Carlsen, 1981)

Apr

21

Heartbreak Hotel

Hotel of the Stars (1981)

A dramatic reenactment, watched over by the King. DP: Alexander Gruszynski.

A film set in a hotel, or involving Elvis Presley, on the date Heartbreak Hotel topped the charts in 1956.

“I love to see myself in Technicolor.”

Once home to the stars, Hollywood's crumbling Montecito Hotel is now populated by drug dealers, prostitutes and the Tinseltown hopeful — extras hoping for that big break. They play the bit parts of their own re-enacted lives and dreams – some imagined, some real – whatever that may mean in Hollywood.