Remington Olmsted

Rem Olmsted owned a restaurant in Rome in the Trastevere district on the West bank of the Tiber river that runs through Rome. The opera singer, Claude Heater, who had a villa that attached to the villa of the famous Mario Del Monaco, who was to play "The Christ" in "Ben Hur" ate there a few times before either he or Rem were cast for their roles in "Ben Hur".