Knickerbocker Hotel (Los Angeles)
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The Knickerbocker Hotel, now senior home Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, (1714 Ivar Ave, Los Angeles, CA) is one of the old historic Los Angeles Hotels that has had its share of notoriety and was the scene for some of Hollywood’s most famous dramatic moments, including suicides, séances and death.
The Hotel got its initial taste of notoriety when Harry Houdini's widow held her first annual séance to contact the magician on Halloween 1926. In 1962, celebrated Hollywood costume designer Irene, despondent over Gary Cooper's death, committed suicide with a leap from her room window. Then on March 3, 1966, veteran character actor William Frawley was strolling home to the Knickerbocker after seeing a movie when he suffered a heart attack at the corner of Hollywood and Ivar. A passing nurse dragged him into the hotel lobby, where he died.
It is believed that the Knickerbocker Hotel is haunted by Rudolph Valentino, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Lentz and Houdini
