Trivia

Great-great-uncle of actresses Gideon Adlon, Odessa A'zion, and Rocket Adlon.

He became a war correspondent for International News Service in May 1945, sent by his wife's sister's lover, William Randolph Hearst, to a ruined Berlin and saw the ruins of his parents' home and a burnt-out Hotel Adlon. His first article is about personal loss, the destroyed city of his youth and the death of his father.

Adlon was a supporting actor and bit player in Hollywood from the late 1930s.

After leaving school, Louis Adlon decided to emigrate to the United States in August 1924, where he found a livelihood as secretary to the silent film diva Pola Negri, who had once achieved stardom in Berlin and for whom he is also said to have been a lover. During a visit to Berlin together, the unlikely couple stayed at the Hotel Adlon and caused a scandal.

Adlon was the grandson of Lorenz Adlon (1849-1921), founder of the famous Adlon Hotel in Berlin, where he spent much of his childhood.

Although his Hollywood screen roles were minuscule at best, Adlon later gained fame as the main character of the 1997 semi-documentary In The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel, written and directed by his nephew, German director Percy Adlon (1935-2024).

Originally interred in the Douras Family Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, his remains were removed and buried in front of the mausoleum in March 1951.

In 1932, the up-and-coming Hungarian director Andrew Marton brought Adlon in front of the camera for a small role in the adventure film comedy North Pole - Ahoy.

After almost 15 years of marriage, his father met a hotel guest, the German-American Hedwig Leythen (1889-1967), called Hedda, at a New Year's Eve party in the Hotel Adlon, left his wife and children, and in 1922 he married her. It was one of the biggest scandals of Berlin in the 1920s.

Louis Adlon also known as Duke Adlon, was a German-born film actor.