Vintage Photographs From the Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles

June 6, 2013
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Many thanks to the Hotel Bel-Air for exclusive access to these wonderful photographs.

Pool, 1951

Swan Pond, 1951

Front Entrance, 1952

Marilyn Monroe posing at the pool

Robert Taylor stables his horse in Bel-Air, 1937

Dean Martin and Stella Stevens in "The Silencers," 1965

All photographs copyright Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles.

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