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Howard
Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business
magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer,[4]
film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the
most financially successful individuals in the world. He first became
prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the
aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior
and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by a worsening
obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane
crash, and increasing deafness.
As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained fame in Hollywood beginning in the
late 1920s, when he produced big-budget and often controversial films such as
The Racket (1928),[5]
Hell's Angels (1930),[6]
and Scarface (1932). Later he controlled the RKO film studio.
Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous
engineers and designers. He spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s
setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and
H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose). He acquired and expanded Trans World
Airlines and later acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes was
included in Flying Magazine's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked
at No. 25.[7]
Today, his legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
and the Howard Hughes Corporation.[8]
Bisexual film director
William Desmond Taylor, Mexican born film star
Ramon Novarro, Spanish born star
Antonio Moreno, and a teenaged
Howard Hughes were all involved with each other sexually – sometimes all at
the same time. Taylor was mesmerized by Hughes, who was attending a private
school east of Santa Barbara, and planned to star him in a film custom
tailored for him. Howard’s uncle, Rupert Hughes, a powerful Hollywood screen
writer, was to write the script. It was Uncle Rupert who had introduced Howard
to William Desmond Taylor. Included in their circle was silent film star
Blanche Sweet, who regularly gave Howard blow jobs, marveling at the young
man’s generous endowment. But it was Taylor who became completely obsessed
with Howard. He knew he could make Hughes the biggest star in all of
Hollywood, and he couldn't keep his hands off him. Unfortunately, Taylor was
murdered in 1922, and the case remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of
Hollywood. Immediately after Taylor’s funeral, Hughes abandoned plans to
become a movie star.
One of the most important male affairs of Hughes was
Dudley Sharp, who was later
involved in an affair with Howard’s doting mother, who became pregnant by
Dudley. Based in Houston, Allene (Howard’s mother) died from complications of
the pregnancy, and a day later Dudley, Howard's boyfriend from just a few
years before, attempted suicide. Howard was sixteen. Sharp later suffered the
humiliation of having to ask Howard for money in order to continue his studies
at Princeton. Hughes refused. Dudley Sharp later married and became U.S.
Secretary of the Air Force under Eisenhower.
Still a teenager, Hughes had an affair with silent film star
Billy Haines. Haines and Hughes
forged a close friendship, even though Billy Haines was 100% gay and Hughes
was bisexual. Billy knew everybody in Hollywood and made sure Hughes was
invited to all the right parties.
According to Alan Royle, in 1937
Katharine Hepburn purchased
her Turtle Bay, Manhattan townhouse for $33,000, and moved in with
Howard Hughes at Muirfield Mansion in Los
Angeles. Hughes usually slept in his study so Kate was allocated his former
wife’s master bedroom. It was not lost on Kate that the only person who
regularly shared his bed while she was living there was
Cary Grant, who slept over about
twice a week. At the time Hepburn was still sleeping intermittently with
directors George Stevens and John Ford and her girlfriend
Jane Loring, all without Hughes’ knowledge.
He did not spy on Kate as he later would on
Ava Gardner when she entered his
life. Quite simply, sexually, the Hughes-Hepburn relationship held little
interest for either of them. They just enjoyed each other’s company – while it
lasted anyway.
Hughes is buried next to his parents at
Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.[126]
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