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The Biltmore Hotel is a hotel located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Built by John McEntee Bowman, it opened in 1923. At the time, it was the largest hotel west of Chicago and designed by architects Schultze and Weaver. It is now named the Millennium Biltmore. The hotel's lobby was used in the video for Britney Spears Overprotected and the swimming pool was used in the 1999 film Cruel Intentions. The hotel has hosted the Academy Awards eight times, the most recent one in 1942. Scenes from many movies have been filmed at the hotel, including: Chinatown, A Star is Born, Splash, Bachelor Party, Beverly Hills Cop, The Nutty Professor, Ghostbusters, Bugsy, and In the Line of Fire.
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