
Seeing Stars in Hollywood
 
The
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
(at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard) supposedly has not just one, but two
celebrity ghosts! Montgomery Clift,
stayed at the hotel for three months while rehearsing his role in the 1953
movie "From Here to Eternity." His ghost now allegedly
haunts room #928 of the 9th floor of the hotel, playing a trumpet, and
pacing the hallways while reciting his old lines. 
There
is also supposed to be a "cold spot" in the Blossom Ballroom
at the same Roosevelt Hotel (the room where the very first Academy Awards
ceremony was held), a circle about 30 inches in diameter and about 10 degrees
colder than the rest of the ballroom. 
The
corridors of the Queen Mary (the largest
passenger ship ever built) are lined with black & white photos of famous
Hollywood stars who made the Atlantic crossing in first-class style. But
it is an unknown ghost who supposedly haunts the hallways and lower regions
of this giant luxury liner, which is now docked as a tourist attraction
in Long Beach, CA. (at the south end of the Long Beach Freeway). 

The ghost of magician Harry
Houdini is said by some to roam the remains of his former home
in the Hollywood Hills, located at 2398 Laurel Canyon Boulevard. 

The
ghost of actor Clifton Webb (the original
"Mr. Belvedere" in the 1947 comedy "Sitting
Pretty") supposedly haunts the Abbey of the Psalms mausoleum
(where he is buried) at Hollywood
Memorial Park Cemetery, next to Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
(He is entombed in a hallway called the Sanctuary of Peace, inside
the huge mausoleum). 
Others have reported seeing the same ghost
at Clifton Webb's old home, at 1005
Rexford Drive, in Beverly Hills. 

The new owners of the old Ozzie
& Harriet Nelson house
(at 1822 Camino Palmero, in Hollywood), have supposedly experienced unusual
phenomena in the former Nelson home, which was made famous in the TV sitcom
"The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet".

The
restless ghost of TV's "Superman," George Reeves,
supposedly haunts the Beverly Hills home where he was found dead of a gunshot
wound (at 1579 Benedict Canyon Drive). Police ruled it a suicide, but friends
and relatives believe he was murdered. Singer Don McLean
("American Pie") recorded a song called "Superman's
Ghost," about the troubles George Reeves had with being typecast
in his "Man of Steel" role. 

Thelma
Todd was a young actress who, during the early 1930's, had co-starred
in a number of classic comedies with the Marx Brothers
("Horse Feathers," "Monkey Business"),
Laurel & Hardy, and Buster
Keaton. She also ran a beachside café, located at 17575 Pacific
Coast Highway, between Malibu and Pacific Palisades. Thelma died in 1935
under mysterious circumstances. She was found dead in her car, still parked
in the garage above her café. It was ruled an accidental suicide,
yet the bloody scene suggested a murder, and many people suspected a cover-up.
Today, her old café is owned by Paulist Productions, and employees
there have reported seeing Thelma Todd's
ghost walking down the staircase. Psychics have reported smelling exhaust
fumes in her old garage above the café (at 17531 Posetano Road).

Culver
Studios - where "Gone With the Wind" was
shot - was built by film-make Thomas Ince.
Rumor
has it that Ince was accidentally shot and killed by a jealous William Randolph
Hearst (the inspiration for "Citizen Kane"),
who was supposedly aiming at Charlie Chaplin
but missed. According to the legend, the ghost of Thomas Ince now haunts
his old studio, walking through walls and criticizing the new management.
(9336 Washington Blvd, in Culver City.) 
You can learn more
about Haunted
Hollywood and celebrity deaths from
the books of Laurie Jacobson - available
by clicking here.


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