California Suite (1978) on Netflix
PG19781h 43mComedyDramaRomance
Four sets of guests fill the Beverly Hills Hotel. Diana Barrie is nominated for an Oscar, Bill and Hannah Warren argue over their daughter, and Marvin Michaels hides a surprise from Millie.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.2/109,213 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes48%
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Plot summary
Diana Barrie, a British actress, arrives at the Beverly Hills Hotel with her husband Sidney Cochran for the Academy Awards, where she is nominated for the first time. Bill Warren, a screenwriter in Los Angeles, meets his ex-wife Hannah, who has flown in from New York: their seventeen-year-old daughter Jenny has left Hannah's home to live with Bill, and the two disagree about what should happen next. Marvin Michaels reaches the hotel a day before his wife Millie, in town from Philadelphia for a nephew's bar mitzvah, and finds something in his bed he needs to keep from her. Two doctors and their wives, Chauncey and Lola Gump and Willis and Bettina Panama, arrive on a driving vacation to find no reservation and a full hotel.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about California Suite (1978)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The scene of Maggie Smith's nervous nominee arriving at the Oscars was shot at the genuine 50th Academy Awards, where Smith and Michael Caine were on duty that night as the real presenters of the Best Supporting Actor prize.
