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56 Did You Know - About Howard Hughes

DID YOU KNOW...

About Howard Hughes

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- In the 1950s, Robert Mitchum was selected by
Hughes to appear in a series of films he was
producing. Hughes considered Mitchum a
"friend," but (as a paranoid recluse) hardly met
the actor. Mitchum was half-way put-off and
half-way amused by this "crazy, old man" and
clearly saw that he was a surrogate for Hughes
as the strapping actor "romanced" young starlets
on screen.

- It has variously been hypothesized that his
crazed behavior in his later, reclusive years was neighbors and exploding. Hughes was rescued returned to it.
caused by brain damage resulting from a series from the cockpit by Marine Sergeant, William
of accidents, OCD, bipolar disorder, or even Lloyd Durkin. Hughes was severely injured with - Nephew of actor/screenwriter Rupert Hughes.
paranoid-schizophrenia. a broken leg, multiple cracked ribs on his left
side, a dislodged heart, a fractured skull, burns Books About Howard Hughes:
- When he produced films, he became obsessed and abrasions over 65% of his body. He was
with busty actresses and famously invented a given a 50-50 chance to survive. He paid for the • Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by
prototype of the push-up bra to make Jane damage to the houses in the neighborhood out of Donald L. Barlett
Russell as busty as possible in The Outlaw his own pocket and Hughes awarded Durkin a
(1943). Most of the movies he produced are weekly paycheck until the day he died. • Howard Hughes: The Untold Storyby Peter
typlified by beautiful, half-naked women and Harry Brown
nonsensical action sequences. - Is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in The
Aviator (2004), by Victor Holchak in Hughes • Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101
- The Aviator (2004), the movie based on his and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1978), by Tommy Remarkable Meetings
life, was released on what would have been his Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes
99th birthday. (1977) (TV), by Jason Robards in Melvin and • Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
Howard (1980), by Terry O'Quinn in The
- Houston, Texas, has two major commercial Rocketeer (1991) and by Dean Stockwell in • Howard Hughes: Hell's Angel by Darwin
airports: William P. Hobby Airport, and Houston Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Porter
Intercontinental Airport. For a brief period,
Hobby Airport was renamed Howard Hughes - Is portrayed by David Neff in Bettie Page: • Howard Hughes: The Las Vegas Years the
airport. Houstonians objected to it being named Dark Angel (2004) and by Milton Buras in The Women, the Mormons, the Mafia by John
after a living person, so this change was short Hoax (2006) Harris Sheridan
lived, and the name eventually reverted back to
being Hobby Airport. In 1997, Intercontinental - Leonardo DiCaprio and Jason Robards • Howard Hughes' Final Years: Based On An
Airport was renamed Bush Intercontinental, received Oscar-nominations for portraying Examination Of The Hughes Papers by
after the still-living President George Bush, Hughes in a movie. Elaine Davenport
whose son was Governor of Texas at the time.
- The hangar that used to house his famous • Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia and
- Became obsessed with Communism during the airplane, the "Spruce Goose," has been used in Palace Intrigue by Geoff Schumacher
McCarthy "Red Scare" era. His film The Whip subsequent years as a filming studio.
Hand (1951) was originally about a group of • The Passions Of Howard Hughes by Terry
Nazi scientists who smuggled the body of Adolf - He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Moore
Hitler into the U.S. and worked to revive Hitler Party
in order to try to take over the world again. After • The Mysterious Howard Hughes
it was finished Hughes had it reshot, at great - He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Revealedby Verl L. Frehner
expense, to change the villains into Nazi Party and an active anti-communist.His reported
scientists who are now working for the appearance when he was found dead was • Next to Hughes: Behind the Power and
Communists and have taken over a small extremely bizarre. He was covered in uncut, Tragic Downfall of Howard Hughes by His
American town in order to test germ warfare matted hair, had extremely long toenails, and the Closest Advisor by Robert Maheu
experiments on its citizens before they unleash once strapping, 6' 4" man weighed an incredibly
the deadly viruses in the U.S. low 90 pounds. • The Asylum of Howard Hughes by Jack G.
Real
- On July 7, 1946, actress Rosemary DeCamp - Had a strong aversion to black people. For
and her husband were in their house in Beverly many years, he had a private screening room at • Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos &
Hills, California, when an aircraft piloted by the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood Letters by Richard Hack
Hughes crashed into the roof of the house next where he would watch movies by himself at
door, and its wing was torn off and sliced night. In 1958, he found out that the cast of • Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles
through the roof of her house, landing in the Porgy and Bess (1959), an all-black musical Higham
bedroom, where she and her husband were. The being made on the lot, was using the screening
plane, an experimental model Hughes had room each afternoon to watch the footage that • Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and
developed called the XF-11, had experienced had been shot the previous day. Horrified that the Madness of the Man portrayed in the
propeller reversal on the right engine after blacks used the same room he did, and that some Movie THE AVIATOR by Michael Drosnin
taking off from the airport at nearby Culver City. may even have sat in the same seat he did, he []
It finally came to rest after crashing through the shut down the screening room, left the Goldwyn
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