Ghostly Actors and Actresses

MARILYN MONROE

Monroe is said to haunt certain areas of 'The Roosevelt Hotel'. She was born Norma Jean Baker on the 1st of June 1926. At the beginning of her career she was a model which lead her unto the path of the movie business. For two years she lived in Suite 1200, at 'The Roosevelt Hotel' at the start of her modeling career.
A mirror that once hung in her room now hangs in the lobby is said to be haunted by the actresses' spirit. It has also been said that Marilyn haunts the ballroom of the hotel. Both staff and visitors have claimed to have seen her ghost dancing in the ballroom.

MONTGOMERY CLIFT

Monty as he was known to his friends also haunts 'The Roosevelt Hotel'. He was born on the 17th October 1920 and is best remembered for his roles in such movies as 'From Here to Eternity', 'The Misfits' and 'The Judgment at Nuremburg'.
During the year 1928, he spent three month's in Room 928 of 'The Roosevelt Hotel'. Over the years since the death of Montgomery Clift, it has since been claimed by the hotel staff and visitors that Clift can be seen walking along many of the corridor's in the hotel.

JEAN HARLOW

Jean was born on the 3rd of March 1911; she was an American born actress who took Hollywood by storm in the 1930's. She was the original 'Blonde Bombshell'; she was also known and described as 'The Platinum Blonde' which was also the name of one of the movies that she starred in 1931. Jean starred in over 30 movies but her career and her life was tragically cut short at the age of 26, by kidney failure. Since her death in 1937, there have been many sightings of 'The Blonde Bombshell' in the mansion she once called home.

CAROLE LOMBARD

Carole Lombard was born on the 6th of October 1908 in Fort Wayne in Indiana, USA. She began her film career at a very young age. She made her debut at the age of 12, in the movie 'Perfect Crime' in 1931 were she played the role of a tomboy. From there she starred in a few low-budget movies and then moved on to work for studios like Twentieth Century and Paramount Studios. Best known for films like 'My, Man Godfrey', 'To Be or Not to Be' and 'Mr and Mrs Smith'. Carole is also famous for being married to actors such as William Powell, who she married in 1931. Divorcing Powell in 1934, and was linked romantically to actors like Gary Cooper and George Raft. Her most famous marriage was to actor Clark Gable in 1939. She died on the 16th January 1942, and like her husband Clark Gable she is said to haunt 'The Oatman Hotel' in Arizona, where Clark and she spent their honeymoon.

GEORGE REEVES

Reeves was born on January 5th 1914 in Woodstock, Iowa, USA. He began his movie industry in 1939 with a minor role in the epic movie 'Gone With The Wind'. Through that one small role he was contracted to Warner Bros, where his acting included a few B-Movies or B-Pictures as they were known then, such film's as 'The Fighting 69th', 'The Strawberry Blonde', 'Torrid Zone' and 'So Proudly We Hail'. Though he acted in many movies as the ones above, he will always be remembered for his portrayal of the comic super hero 'Superman' in the 1951 television series.
George died on the 16th of June 1959 by his own hand; he committed suicide by shooting himself. It has been said the he can often be seen in his Superman costume roaming the rooms of his former home.

JOHN WAYNE

He was born on the 26th of May 1907 in Winterset, Ohio, USA. Wayne was best known for his western and war movies that's what made him famous acting in film's such as 'The Son's of Katie Elder', 'The Angel and the Badman', 'The Searchers' and many more . He was sometimes described as American's Favorite Movie Star especially with his roles in classic movies like 'The Quietman', 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' and 'Hatari'.
John died on June 11th 1979 of stomach cancer, his ghost is said to have been seen on the yacht he once owned and enjoyed sailing called 'The Wild Goose'.

LUCILLE BALL

She was born August 6th 1911, in the town of Jamestown, New York, USA. She was an actress that appeared in movies and TV shows from the 1980's to the 1970's. Though she was well known for her film, television, stage and radio work. It was her talent that made her an icon that will never be forgotten.
Lucille died on April 26th 1989, she was 77 and since her death in North Roxbury Drive. The house itself has become a paranormal phenonomen known as 'Haunted'. The next people to own the house after Ball have described a lot of strange going on's. For example; furniture and objects moving on their own. Unexplained broken windows and voices being heard from an empty room.

CLARK GABLE

Clark was born on the 1st of February 1901 in the town of Cadiz, Ohio, USA. He was once nicknamed 'The King of Hollywood'. He is best remembered for playing Rhett Butler in the 1939 epic, 'Gone With The Wind' also starring Viven Leigh. Other movies that made Gable famous were movies such as 'Mutiny on the Bounty' made in 1935, 'It Happened One Night' in 1934. It has been said that that Clark Gable also haunts the 'Oatman Hotel', the same hotel that Carole Lombard and he spent their honeymoon in after their marriage in 1939.

ORSON WELLES

Welles was a genius when it came to directing in Hollywood; he also had a talent for writing and producing. Orson was born on the 16th May 1915. He directed, produced, acted and was an exceptional writer of film, stage, radio and television. For acting he is best remembered for his roles in 'Citizen Kane' and for his very real radio broadcast adaptation of 'The War of the Worlds'. At the time it was broadcast there were many who truly believed that the world was under attack and that what they were listening to was a real news broadcast.
Orson died of a heart attack in 1985 at the age of 70. At his favorite restaurant 'The Sweet Lady Jane' customers and staff have reported seeing him sitting at his favorite table.

JOAN CRAWFORD

She was born on the 23rd of March 1905, in San Antonio, Texas. She was an actress signed with the great MGM Studio's and with Warner Bros. Joan started her career as a dancer in a chorus line on Broadway. She started her movie career in a silent film called 'Pretty Ladies' in 1825, moving on and becoming famous through other movies like 'Possessed' made in 1931, 'Dancing Ladies' 1932 and 'Double Indemnity' which is just a few of the movies Crawford starred in. Her former home is said to be haunted by the actresses' ghost that is said to be just one of the ghosts to be linked with Joan Crawford's former home