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ARTICLES RELATED TO Howard Hughes - Hollywood | | | |  Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - HollywoodHughes used his fortune to become a movie producer. He was at first dismissed by Hollywood insiders as a rich man's son. However, his first two films released in 1927, Everybody's Acting and Two Arabian Knights were financial successes, the latter winning an Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy Picture. The Racket in 1928 and The Front Page in 1931 were nominated for Academy Awards. He spent a then-unheard-of $4 million of his own money to make Hell's Angels, which he wrote and directed and which bec ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Fictional media inspirations The following fictional characters appear to have been, at least in part, patterned after Hughes:
"Charles Foster Kane" of the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. This character was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst.
"Willard Whyte" of the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever
Tony Stark, a wealthy inventor and industrialist who becomes Marvel Comics's Iron Man.
The Simpsons episode "$pringfield" in which Montgomery Burns exhibits Hughes's OCD, inc ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Later years The elderly Howard Hughes moved with his entourage from hotel to hotel and from Beverly Hills to Boston to Las Vegas, where he eventually bought the Desert Inn after the proprietors threatened to evict him. He also purchased several other hotels/casinos (Castaways, New Frontier, The Landmark Hotel and Casino, Sands and Silver Slipper) from the Mafia, transactions which ultimately ended mob control of the city 's hotels and casinos. A chronic insomniac, Hughes bought several local television stations (including KLAS-TV) so that there would always be something for hi ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Estate After Hughes's death, an intensive search began for his will, but one could not be found. Speculation became rampant that he may have written a holographic will. A holographic will was soon found on the desk of an official of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The "Mormon Will" gave a gas-station owner named Melvin Dummar a 1/16th share of Hughes's $2 billion estate. Dummar, who had appeared on Let's Make a Deal, among other game shows, claimed to reporters that late one evening in December 1967, he fou ...
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Howard Hughes - Books.
George J. Marrett - Howard Hughes: Aviator (2004) ISBN 1591145104, Naval Institute Press
Richard Hack - Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters : The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire (2002) ISBN 1893224643
Peter Harry Brown and Pat H Broeske - Howard Hughes: The untold story, Time Warner Paperbacks
Robert Maheu and Richard Hack - Next to Hughes: Behind the power and tragic downfall of Howard Hughes by ...
See also:Howard Hughes, Howard Hughes - Birth, Howard Hughes - Education, Howard Hughes - Death of parents, Howard Hughes - Hollywood, Howard Hughes - Aviator and engineer, Howard Hughes - Air crash, Howard Hughes - Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes - RKO, Howard Hughes - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Howard Hughes - Glomar Explorer, Howard Hughes - Recluse, Howard Hughes - Later years, Howard Hughes - Death and burial, Howard Hughes - Estate, Howard Hughes - Factual media portrayals, Howard Hughes - Books, Howard Hughes - Movies, Howard Hughes - Fictional media inspirations, Howard Hughes - Music Read more here: » Howard Hughes: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Factual media portrayals |
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Recluse By the late 1950s, if not earlier, Hughes developed debilitating symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Once one of the most visible men in America, he ultimately vanished from public view altogether, although the tabloids continued to follow rumors regarding his behavior and whereabouts. He was reported at different times to be terminally ill, mentally unstable, or possibly dead.
Hughes had displayed symptoms consistent with OCD his entire life: In the 1930s, close friends reported he was obsessed with the size of peas ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Glomar Explorer In 1972, Hughes was approached by the CIA to help secretly recover a Soviet submarine which had sunk near Hawaii four years before. He agreed. Thus the Glomar Explorer, a special-purpose salvage vessel, was born. Hughes' involvement provided the CIA with a plausible cover story, having to do with civilian marine research at extreme depths, and the mining of undersea manganese nodules.
In the summer of 1974 Glomar Explorer attempted to raise the Soviet vessel. But during the recovery a mechanical failure in the ship's gra ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Aviator and engineer Hughes was a lifelong aircraft enthusiast, pilot, and self-taught aircraft engineer. He set many world records, and designed and built several aircraft himself while heading Hughes Aircraft. The most important aircraft he designed was the Hughes H-1 Racer. On September 13, 1935, Hughes, flying the H-1, set the world speed record of 352 mph (588 km/h) over his test course near Santa Ana, California. (The previous record was 314 mph (502 km/h). A year and a half later (January 19, 1937), flying a somewhat re-designed H-1 Racer, Hughes set a ne ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - RKO Hughes acquired RKO in 1948, a struggling major Hollywood studio. He interfered with production and even shut down shooting for weeks or months. RKO was sold in 1955.
After the war, Hughes fashioned his company Hughes Aircraft into a major defense contractor. Portions of the company wound up with McDonnell Douglas, and eventually Boeing when those two companies merged. The remainder of Hughes A ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Howard Hughes Medical Institute In 1953, Hughes launched the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Delaware, formed with the express goal of basic biomedical research including trying to understand, in Hughes' words, the "genesis of life itself." It was viewed by many as a tax haven for his wealth: Hughes gave all his stock of the Hughes Aircraft Company to the institute, thereby turning the defense contractor into a tax-exempt charity. The deal was the topic of a protracted legal battle between Hughes and the Internal Revenue Service which Hughes ultimately won. After his de ...
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| | | | Howard Hughes - Hollywood: Encyclopedia II - Howard Hughes - Death of parents His parents died when he was a teenager, his mother in 1922 due to complications from minor surgery, and his father two years later from a heart attack. Hughes inherited much of Hughes Tool Company, but had to deal with the trustees left to take care of the business and whom he viewed as meddlers. He went to court to become an emancipated minor. He then bought out various relatives, and took complete control of Hughes Tool in 1924 at the age of 19.
He dropped out of Rice, and moved to Hollywood where he had an uncle, Rupert Hughes, a novelist. His girlfriend, Ella Rice, joined him, an ...
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