The Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Popular Culture
In E.B. White's children's novel The Trumpet of the Swan, the main character Louis (a trumpeter swan) stays at The Ritz-Carlton Boston, where he eats watercress sandwiches and sleeps in the bathtub.
On the HBO original series Boardwalk Empire, the character of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (portrayed by Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of Atlantic County, occupies the entire 9th floor of a fictionalized version of the hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The real Enoch "Nucky" Johnson on which Nucky Thompson was based did in fact occupy an entire floor of suites at The Ritz-Carlton Atlantic City until his arrest in 1941 on charges of tax evasion.
In the German movie "Keinohrhasen" the main character meets friends in The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin.
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