FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL, Fontainebleau Hotel

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Fontainebleau Hotel.

The Fontainebleau is without doubt the most famous hotel in the city. It has appeared in so many films that it’s become a star itself.

A few examples? Goldfinger, an action film in which Sean Connery played the most famous secret agent of all time, begins with an aerial view of the Fontainebleau, accompanied by the song Into Miami, by John Barry. And who could forget the pool, the favorite spot of Tony Montana, alias Al Pacino, in the Brian de Palma movie Scarface? Or the moment Whitney Houston gets saved by Kevin Costner as she’s singing in The Bodyguard? All those scenes were shot here in this splendid hotel. 

This striking complex is the result of a stroke of genius by Morris Lapidus, known as “the architect of the American dream”, in 1954....