Alto Nido
Opened in 1930 as "Hollywood's Premiere Apartment Hotel" primarily for actors. Made famous from Sunset Blvrd. as the apartment Joe Gillis lived in, this movie is actually what sparked a bond between Nick and I. Claudette Colbert lived at the Alto Nido while first arriving in Hollywood. Lila Leeds, who took an overdose of sleeping pills there and almost died in 1948. obscure screenwriter Eugene Walter also lived there. "drove by the Alto Nido, thought of you"