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Movie Set Hotel: Woody Allen and The Hotel Gritti Palace

Where: Campo Santa Maria del Giglio 2467 | San Marco,, Venice, Italy, 30124,

While we're not quite done with discovering what celebrities are staying in what hotels, we are taking a page from baby bro Jaunted's playbook this week by looking at hotels that have appeared in movies. However, we are eschewing the cliche movie hotels like those that appeared in"Pretty Woman" and "The Shining." Instead, we are looking at recent movies or little-known hotel cameos. If you happen to be a movie hotel buff, send us your fave appearances.

Thanks to Hotel Maven Ann, who happens to be extremely knowledgeable in movie set hotels, we learn that Woody Allen seems to give hotels cameos in his movies as much as he gives pretty starlets lead roles.

"Everyone Says I Love You" is one of Allen's musical films from the mid-90s about (what else) an eccentric family on New York's Upper East Side. It's chockfull of stars like Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman and Drew Barrymore.

Allen himself plays an ex-husband who's still friends with his ex-wife and her new family. But he ends up jaunting off to Venice where he meets a woman Von (played by Roberts) and tries to convince her he is the man of her dreams. (Like all Woody Allen movies, that's not the only plot at work here.)

When Allen's character is in Venice he holes up at the Hotel Gritti Palace one of Starwood's Luxury Collection properties that overlooks the Grand Canal. When his character heads to France, the Ritz makes an appearance.

Similarly, Allen puts The Waldorf-Astoria in "Crimes and Misdemeanors", and the Carlyle in "Hannah and Her Sisters." However, with all of these hotels you are going to have to have Woody Allen's paycheck to stay there.

Related Stories:
· Hotel Gritti Palace reviews [TripAdvisor]