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Hughes kept his wife isolated at home for weeks at a time and, in 1929, she returned to Houston and filed for divorce. Hughes was a notorious ladies' man who spent time with many famous women, including Billie Dove, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn and Gene Tierney. He ... proposed to Joan Fontaine several times, according to her autobiography No Bed of Roses. Bessie Love was a mistress during his first marriage. Jean Harlow accompanied him to the premiere of Hell's Angels, but Hughes' longtime, right-hand man, Noah Dietrich, wrote many years later that the relationship was strictly professional—Hughes personally disliked Harlow. In his 1971 book, Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, Dietrich also noted that Hughes genuinely liked and respected Jane Russell but never sought romantic involvement with her.
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Hughes used his fortune to become a movie producer. He was at first laughed off 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. His films The Racket in 1928 and The Front Page in 1931 were nominated for Academy Awards. Other movies included one of the world's first multi-million dollar productions Hell's Angels (1930) which was written and directed by Hughes and showcased his love for aviation, and Scarface (1932). His best-known film may be The Outlaw (1943) starring Jane Russell. Both Scarface and The Outlaw received attention from the industry censors, who targeted the films for their disregard of certain moral standards set forth within the industry.
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A document signed “Howard R. Hughes, pres,” one page, dated July 19, 1932. Final page of a longer agreement between Howard Hughes and noted movie director Howard Hawks, concerning an agreement between The Caddo Company and Hawks. In full: “The undersigned and each of us hereby represent and warrant to and for the benefit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation that the contract hereto is a duplicate original of the contract between the undersigned, The Caddo Company, Inc., and Howard W. Hawks, dated as of July 12, 1932, and is a duplicate original of the agreement between the said Caddo Company, Inc., and Howard W. Hawks referred to in that certain agreement between The Caddo Company, Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation and Howard W. Hawks likewise dated as of July 12, 1932.” Hawks has ... signed beneath Hughes. Hughes involvement in showibz dates to the mid-1920s, when he formed the Caddo Corporation and went on to produce three monumental films—the ambitious aeronautical feature Hell’s Angels (1930), the seminal newspaper film The Front Page (1931), and the potent gangster classic Scarface (1932). The release of Scarface, completed in 1930, was delayed by two years because of censors’ concerns that it glorified the gangster lifestyle and showed too much violence. The “conditions” for its release included the editing of several scenes the addition of the subtitle “The Shame of the Nation,” and the addition of a text introduction, epilogue, and new ending.
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After the death of his father, Howard spent much time with his uncle Rupert, a writer for Samuel Goldwyn's Studios, which led him to a second career as a director, writer, and movie producer. His first film, Hell's Angels, combined his love for film and flying. Though the movie was a huge hit, the production of its towering flight scenes lost Howard $1.5 million (and several pilots). He later went on to produce the controversial Scarface (1932) and The Outlaw (1943).
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In the manner of cornered men whose expense accounts have already been made public, Hughes admitted to misdemeanors but pled innocent to felonies. He had indeed wined and wenched government officials and military brass, sometimes to excess. It was necessary, he said; his competitors did it, and as a relative newcomer trying to buck long-entrenched interests and liaisons, he had to play the game in order to get a hearing on his proposals. He had never looked on aviation as a moneymaker, he insisted; he was in it because he had a passion for it. He yielded to no man in his mastery of the dark arts of making money, as the astronomical profits of his other businesses showed, but in aviation, he had lost $14 million in thirteen years.
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On July 7, 1946, while test-flying the spy plane XF-11, Hughes crashed the plane, in an accident that changed his life and may have started his addiction to painkillers. One of the counter-rotating propellers malfunctioned, throwing the plane off course. Hughes tried to crash-land on a Los Angeles golf course, but just short of the open space, the XF-11 plummeted into some houses in nearby Beverly Hills.
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