Celebrities
Bette Davis (05/18/34) On vacation after she finished filming "Of Human Bondage."
Cast and Crew of the RKO film, Silver Streak (09/17/34-09/18/34) Filming in Boulder City and at the Hoover Dam building site.
Harold Lloyd (10/34) Millionaire Hollywood comedian and pinball wizard.
William Woollett (10/34) Famed architect and artist whose lithographs of Hoover Dam construction are reprinted today.
Oskar L. Hansen (1960's) Norwegian artist and sculptor; designed the Winged Figures of the Republic and the star map terrazzos on the crest of Hoover Dam.
Richard Barthelmess and Ronald Colman (01/10/35) Popular actors and poker kings, they gambled in the Hotel during their visit.
Margaret Bourke-White (03/35) World renowned photographer and traveler; married to novelist Erskine Caldwell. She shot photos of the Hoover Dam construction.
Will Rogers (1935) Performed on the stage at the Boulder Theater.
Boris Karloff (1946) Lived at the Hotel to establish residency for a Nevada divorce. He then remarried on April 11, 1946 in Boulder City.
Patricia Ellis (02/37) Blonde, wise-cracking Hollywood character-actress. She starred in a Warner Brothers romantic adventure at Hoover Dam.
Frances Lederer and Margo (1937) He was a darkly-handsome matinee idol. She was the star of Lost Horizons. They stayed together at the Hotel while Lederer awaited a divorce from his wife.
Edward Cianelli (04/38) Sinister character-actor, he played a Nazi inquisitor in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent."
Jose Iturbi (12/31/40-01/01/41) An actor and pianist grounded in Boulder City when his airplane broke down. The Hotel manager had a piano dragged up to Iturbi's suite so he could practice.
Fibber McGee and Molly (Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jordan) (1947)
James Cagney (1950)
Milburn Stone (1950's) Gunsmoke's Doc kept his boat moored at Lake Mead.
Ferde Grofe (1950's) Composer of "Grand Canyon Suite," stayed frequently at the Hotel. He established residency there for a divorce. He composed "Sunrise Over Lake Mead" while at the Hotel, and stayed at the Hotel during concerts he gave in Las Vegas strip hotels.
Pat Butrum (1981) Country-Western star.
William Powell (1950)
Henry Fonda (03/19/41)
Shirley Temple (05/31/38)
Wallace Beery (07/38)
Fred MacMurray
Sophie Tucker
Robert Taylor
Sonja Heine

Dignitaries
Archhduke Otto Hapsburg (04/08/41) Traipsed up and down Arizona Street in a ten-gallon hat.
Duchess of Westminster (1939) Traveling alone around the world, she spent afternoons in the Hotel's lobby with her needlepoint.
His Excellency Celal Bayer (02/11/54) President of Turkey.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (ca 1956) Ruler of Iran.
Cardinal Pacelli (1936) Later Pope Pius XII, he traveling with an ecumenical group.
Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway (05/13/39) Featured at a luncheon on the Hotel's terrace after touring Boulder Dam.
Prince J.M. and Princess K. Shrinagesh or Jahore, India (02/47)
Maharajah and Maharanee of Indore, India (09/21/36-09/22/36) Traveling with a retinue of fourteen, they took up all of the suites in the Hotel and several other rooms.

Politicians
Rex Bell (08/22/35) Popular cowboy star and Lieutenant Governor of Nevada during the1950's.
Senator Robert Taft (09/47) Son of President William Howard Taft.
James G. Scrugham (04/39) Nevada Congressman.
Pascual Ortiz de Rubio and family (12/37) President of Mexico, 1929-1932, touring the American Southwest.

Business Tycoons
Howard Hughes (1943) Recuperated several weeks in the Hotel after his Sikorsky S-43 crashed into Lake Mead.
George Pepperdine and Family (1940) President of Western Auto Supply and founder of Pepperdine University.
A.P. Gianinni (1934) Founder of the Bank of America.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. (01/35) Spent part of their honeymoon in the Hotel.
Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski (1937) Heiress to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals fortune, she was married to conductor Leopold Stokowski. She lived at the Hotel for several weeks to establish Nevada residency in order to divorce her husband, who was traveling in Europe with Greta Garbo.
Mrs. Frederick Webster Gillett (1939) Lived at the Hotel in order to establish residency to divorce her millionaire husband.
George Palmer (G.P.) Putnam (05/21/39) Millionaire publisher married on the Hotel's terrace.
George Beckley, Jr. (09/39) Heir to the Wrigley Gum fortune, he was married in the Hotel.

Government Agents
Admiral and Mrs. David Foote Sellers (02/28/34) Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Dr. Joel T. Boone (03/10/34) White House Physician to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
Mrs. Raymond Moley (06/34) Wife of the Assistant Secretary of State of the United States.
Harold Ickes (10/38) Secretary of the Interior and Roosevelt's "Hatchet Man."
H.O. Williamson (10/07/38-10/08/38) U.S. Consul at Gibraltar.

Locals
Dennis McBride (08/21/80) Noted local author and world traveler, bon vivant, and spinner of questionable yarns.