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Howard Hughes: Movies
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Born in Texas with a silver spoon in his mouth, Howard Hughes spent his young adulthood as a swaggering movie mogul and daring aviator. This chronology reveals all the American billionaire’s triumphs and disasters, then charts his descent into madness, squalor and death.
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Pictured above is the Desert Inn Hotel where Howard Hughes reclused himself from November 1966 to November 1970. It was here that the movie system was taken and set up for his personal screenings.
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In 1972, while in the Bahamas, Hughes consented to a long interview, by phone, with news reporters to denounce a supposed biography of him as a forgery. He told them he was interested in moving back to Las Vegas to oversee his Strip hotels once again, but he never returned there. With no one but his aides around him, Hughes neglected his personal appearance and hygiene. He rarely bathed; his hair was down to his shoulders, his fingernails long and claw-like, and his body almost skeletal.
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Synopsis: Personally supervised by Howard R. Hughes, the RKO Technicolor musical Two Tickets to Broadway stars Janet Leigh as a small-town girl who hopes to make it big in the Big Apple. Moving into a Manhattan bRead More
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In the first part of the show, Hughes recounts a bit of Irish luck that changed her life: She was 14 when American TV producers came to her neighborhood. Out of hundreds of hopefuls, they selected Hughes and three other Belfast youths with no acting experience to spend a summer in the U.S. to appear in the 1984 TV movie "Children in the Crossfire," directed by the late George Schaefer.
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By the late 1950s, if not earlier, Hughes developed debilitating symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The once dashing figure vanished from public view and became a mystery. The media followed rumors of his movements and behavior. According to various rumors, Hughes was either terminally ill, mentally unstable, or even dead and replaced by an impersonator.
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