The Ramsey Hotel scenes in Parting Gifts were actually shot at The Ambassador Hotel in los Angeles.

The hotel was a landmark in the city and the site of many Academy Awards ceremonies. The hotel and it’s nightclub, the Cocoanut Grove, were favoured by many Hollywood stars including Marilyn Monroe, Bing Cosby, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore and Gloria Swanson. Several U.S. Presidents slept there, and in 1968, Robert Kennedy was assasinated in the kitchen en route to the ballroom to accept the Democratic Presidential nomination.

The neighbourhood where the hotel was situated began to deteriorate in the 1970s and despite a renovation of the Cocoanut Grove in the mid 1970s, the hotel was not able to return to its former splendor. It closed in 1989 and became the site of many movie and TV show shoots, including The Italian Job, Almost Famous, Forrest Gump, Pretty Woman, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Mask, The Graduate, Beaches and Catch Me If You Can.

Angel was the last production to shoot in the hotel before it’s final demolition in 2005.