Mae West: Whitehall Inn

During July 1956, MAE WEST stayed at the venerable Whitehall Inn built in 1900 in Camden, Maine. Last August, President Bush's daughter was staying there when she received a marriage proposal.
• • Greg and Sue Marquise, owners of the Whitehall Inn [Camden, Maine], confirmed that Jenna Bush and her fiancé Henry Hager stayed at the inn during August 2007, the day before Hager’s well-publicized proposal on the slopes of Cadillac Mountain on Mount Desert Island.
• • Bush and Hagar are expected to marry Saturday, 10 May 2008, at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas.
• • After the visit last summer, one Whitehall Inn employee rejected an offer from a national tabloid newspaper looking for details of the first daughter’s stay at the inn.
• • The 108-year-old inn, however, is not shy in talking about its past guest list, which has included MAE WEST, Bill Clinton, Prince Abdullah [now King of Jordan], Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Linda Ronstadt, Tallulah Bankhead, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and many sports stars.
• • The young couple stayed in a simple room, with a view of Penobscot Bay across a second floor roofline. The only famous guest known to have occupied the same room was Wally Cox, a comedian and actor, known as Mr. Peepers and eventually a regular on Hollywood Squares.
• • The Whitehall Inn [52 High Street, Camden, ME 04843] is best known for its role in the filming of "Peyton Place" and for the discovery of local poet Edna St. Vincent Millay when she entertained guests in 1912.
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• • Article: "President’s daughter was guest in Camden at Whitehall Inn prior to her engagement last summer"
• • Published in: Camden Herald — — www.mainecoastnow.com
• • Published on: 6 May 2008
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