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RESTAURANTS AND BARS
LOS ANGELES
Barney's Beanery
8447 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood.
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Marilyn often ate there when she was still a starlet, after her lessons at the Actors Lab.
This flagship restaurant of Los Angeles was also one of favourite adresses of Jean
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Bruce Wongs
358 South La
Cienega Boulevard, Hollywood.
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The Chinese favourite den of Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio.
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9039 Beverly Boulevard, Hollywood.
Opened in 1936.
Johnny Hyde was the one to take Marilyn there; it belonged to the most "trendy" Hollywood places, and soon she became a regular.
On June 26, 1953 she finished her roadshow for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", during which she had left her hands prints on the pavement of the Grauman's Chinese Theater. Jane Russell, the other star of the movie, and the reporter Sidney Skolsky were also present.8433 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.
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On May 13, 1953 Marilyn went there for a party in honor of Walter Winchell with Betty Grable, who shared with her the bill of "How to Marry A Millionaire?".
She also went there with her friend Sidney Skolsky.
On January 11, 1955, Marilyn attended Sammy Davis Jr show :
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Florentine Gardens
5955 Hollywood Boulevard.
Opened on December 28, 1938, this Italian restaurant-dancing could welcome up to 1 000 people.
It became bankrupt in 1948 and closed in 1954 before reopened in 1985.
James Dougherty and Norma Jeane celebrated there their wedding in 1942.
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Formosa Café
7156 Santa
Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.
Located at the corner of the Warner studios, formerly occupied by the MGM, it was for decades the favourite place of the stars, who came to have a drink and to have a quick bite to eat.
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Marilyn used to stop there during the studio shooting of "Some Like it Hot" (1959).
Recently, this café was the star of the movie "LA Confidential" (1997).
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8017 Sunset
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Famous restaurant on Sunset, West Hollywood, Marilyn went to for its hot pastrami and its mustard brushed rye bread.
9455 Santa
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Italian restaurant where Marilyn was a regular, mostly in 1962.
It was the last place where she had dinner outside, with Pat Newcomb and Peter Lawford on August 3, 1962.
Lucey's
5444 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Replaced by Walter's Plants Rentals.
It's said that during a meeting organized by Sidney Skolsky in this restaurant, Marilyn impressed so much the producer Jerry Wald, that she got a part in "Clash By Night" (1952).
El Mocambo
8588 Sunset
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Rehearsals with Phil Moore, 1949
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Popular night-club of Los Angeles, opened in 1941 under the name of Club Versailles (
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6667 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood.
Auto-proclaimed restaurant "The oldest restaurant of Hollywood" (opened in 1919), well-known for its vodkas and its famous clients. Marilyn first went there to flaunt herself as a starlet, then went back all along her career. Located not far from the Grauman's Theater.
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The Retake Room Bar
Washington
Boulevard.
Marilyn came there with Johnny Hyde to celebrate her "breakthrough" to have got a part in "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).
326 North
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills.
8024 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.
9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills.
First class restaurant where Marilyn often had dinner for years.
Villa Capri
6735 Yucca
Street, Hollywood.
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Famous bar well-liked by the stars, and one of Joe DiMaggio's favourite adresses.
Marilyn had dinner there several times between 1952 and 1954.
The restaurant closed in 1982.
The Villa Nova
Since 1975 The Rainbow Grill.
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9015 Sunset
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According to the most popular rumor, that's where the first meeting between Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio took place in 1952; most of the versions indicates that it was an outing of 2 couples, with their mutual friend David March and his girlfriend Peggy Rabe.
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21 West 52nd Street.
Marilyn was taken in pictures there in September 1954, while she was shooting "The Seven Year Itch" :
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Copacabana Club
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One of the most prestigious popular place of New York City of the 50's, where Marilyn took her close friends to see Frank Sinatra after the press conference announcing the setting up of the Marilyn Monroe Productions.
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154 East
54th Street.
Since, has moved at n° 307.
This popular restaurant was the first idea Marilyn could have of the New York stylishness during her visit in 1949, for the promotion of "Love Happy" (1950).
It was also one of the last places she was seen in public with DiMaggio, during the shooting of "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) :
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Friars Club
57th East 55th Street.
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Marilyn attended a party on March 17, 1955, to which attended Dean Martin, Milton Berle and Sammy Davis Jr.
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Four Seasons
99 East 52nd Street.
One of the restaurants where Marilyn had her habits. Today still prestigious.
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49th Street
et Broadway.
She came there sometime to have a snack.
Jim Downey's Steak House
44th Street 8th Avenue (
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Popular theater restaurant of New York whose walls were decorated with Broadway stars pictures.
Marilyn's picture was added after she had come on the stage of the Martin Beck Theater for a curtain call, her friend Eli Wallach playing as star in "The Teahouse of the August Moon".Manny Wolf's Chophouse
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Restaurant attended by Marilyn when she lived in New York, according to her housekeeper Lena Pepitone.
Sardi's
234 West 44th Street
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On October 5, 1955, premiere of "Diary of Anne Franck", celebrated in this restaurant :
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The Stork Club
3 East 53rd Street
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Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn often had dinner there in 1954, when Marilyn was in town for the shooting of "The Seven Year Itch" :
Table n°50 of the Club Room was the favourite's one of reporter and friend of DiMaggio, Walter Winchell.
The owner Sherman Billingsley was referee of the elegances of the café society of New York.
Today the Paley Park.
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Bucket of Blood Saloon
3 South C
Street, Virginia City, Nevada (near Dayton) (
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Bar where Marilyn and Fred Karger had a drink in 1948.
In 1960 Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift and Marilyn took some breaks during the shooting of " The Misfits" (1961).
Christmas Tree Inn
23 900
Mount Rose Highway, Reno,
Nevada (near the Lake Tahoe)
The crew of "The Misfits" celebrated there the birthdays of Arthur Miller and Montgomery Clift, on October 17, 1960.
Eve Arnold immortalized the event, just before the last day of the shooting.
Opened in 1948, it was closed in 1964.Today the Tannenbaum Event Center.
Club Gigi
Fountainebleau
Hilton
4441
Collins Avenue, Miami, Florida.
Restaurant where Marilyn invited Isadore Miller, the widowed father of Arthur Miller, during her trip in Florida in 1962.
Edith Palmer's Country Inn Restaurant
416 South B
Street, Virginia City, Nevada (
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Marilyn's favourite restaurant during the shooting of "The Misfits" in 1960.
According to the owner, Norma Brown, Marilyn spent a night in the hotel, so much so that a suite "Marilyn Monroe" was baptized in her honor.
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DiMaggio's
245
Jefferson Street, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.
Joe and Dominic DiMaggio owned and managed this restaurant, in the popular area of Fisherman's Wharf.
Marilyn was regularly seen there after her wedding with Joe.
In 1985 the DiMaggios made the lease over to the owner of another restaurant.
Finocchio's
506
Broadway, North Beach, San Francisco (
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Night-club where Marilyn went, during a break in the shooting of "The Misfits", in 1960, to attend a show of a drag artist dressed up in Marilyn.
Marilyn and her friends didn't stay until the end of the show.
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Hot Springs Hotel
13th et
Spring Street, Paso Robles, California.
According to some versions, Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio had dinner there the evening of their wedding, before going back to the Clifton Motel.
Last Frontier Hotel
3120 South
Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 1946, waiting for her divorce with Jim
Dougherty, Marilyn had dinner in this hotel with Roy Rogers who was shooting a movie in town.
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