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HUGHES Howard

 

Howard Robard Hughes Jr.

Date of birth : December 24, 1905, Houston, Texas.

Date of death : April 5, 1976, Las Vegas, Nevada (). Buried in the Glenwood Cemetery of

Houston, Texas ().

 

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Profession owner of the RKO.

 

Story

Before withdrawing from the world and living as a recluse, the famous millionaire lived intensely 3 passions :

planes (), cinema and pretty ladies ().

On June 1st, 1925 he married Ella Botts Rice (,;,

). 

They divorced on December 9, 1929. For his second wedding, he married the actress Jean Peters le 12 janvier

1957 (,). They divorced on June 18, 1971.

In 1934 with Jean Harlow .

On July 7, 1946, Hughes crashed with an American plane prototype he was building for the Air Force, the WF-11.

This day, he crashed on the house of Rosemary deCamp, in Beverly Hills. He broke his ribs, had the ribcage pushed in and suffered from 2nd and 3rd-degree burns.

Reporter Hedda Hopper told that when he was at the hospital and while he was immobilized, he was attracted by the picture of a young woman on the cover of many magazines, it was Norma Jeane. The story tells that he ordered to engage her. But Ben Lyon, the talent scout, had engaged her a week earlier.

Actually, it was exactly Hedda Hopper's article (sagely announced to the press by Emmeline Snively in order to create a kind of activity and to promote one of his agency's girl) which started the events.

Some biographers maintain that Marilyn made a screen-test with the RKO, Hiward Hughes studios, before signing with the Fox.

 

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