As Culver City became a movie-making mecca beginning in the 1920s, the hotel welcomed legendary stars, some maintaining private residences for months at a time.

The Culver Hotel has appeared in films and television, including Under the Rainbow, the Our Gang short Honkey Donkey,[2] The Wonder Years, Party of Five, 7th Heaven, Last Action Hero, Sledge Hammer!,[2] Stuart Little 2, Bones, Cougar Town, Perry Mason, and Touch.

The Culver Hotel was restored and reopened by Lou Catlett in the mid 1990s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The property was then purchased by Abraham Hu who ran it, in conjunction with his son Xing and nightclub restaurateur Eddie Harrah, for several years until 2007.

The Culver Hotel has housed many stars as guests, including Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Red Skelton, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Dandridge, Douglas Fairbanks, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, all 4 members of the boy band 98 Degrees, Abby Lee Miller of Dance Moms, Countess Luann de Lesseps from The Real Housewives of New York City some even maintaining private residences for months at a time.