When he was a teenager, howard hughes declared that his goal in life was to be the best golfer, the best pilot and the best film producer in the world. Howard hughes studied in many excellent schools all his life, but never got a degree. He attended Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts, Thacher School in Ojai, California, California Institute of Technology and Rice College (now Rice University). While studying in Rice, howard hughes inherited his father's company and howard hughes dropped out of school. Filmmaker howard hughes used his inheritance to enter the film industry. At first, howard hughes was not favored by the film industry, thinking that he was just a dude disciple of a rich family. However, in 1927, he released his first films "Everyone's Performance" and "Two Arabian Knights", both of which were commercially successful. Two Arabian knights won the Oscar for best comedy director. The racket in 1928 and the front page in 193 1 were nominated for Oscar. He spent an unprecedented $4 million in private funds to write and direct the air combat epic Hellscream, and his 1932 Scarface became a very successful film. Howard hughes's most famous film is Gangster starring jane russell. Because of the violent plot in Scarface and the exposure in Gangster, these two films were strictly censored by the film industry at that time. Scarface was later remake in 1983.
Personal film works
1927 "Everyone is acting"
Two Arabian knights
1928 racket
1930 "Hell Angel"
193 1 year home page
1932 scar face
1943 outlaws
After the gang boss Hughes came to Hollywood, he began his magnificent career of picking up girls. The first girl he saw was Billie Dove, the "most beautiful girl" in the silent film era. He used money to divorce Billie's husband and wife separately, but they didn't get married, and Billie left without saying goodbye. Some people say it's because of Hughes' love affair with Jane Harrow, while others say it's because Hughes is too much for Billie.
1935, Hughes got to know katharine hepburn who was filming. Hepburn's first impression of Hughes was not good, but Hughes quickly launched a flood of love offensive. He drove a reconnaissance plane to an appointment and had a candlelight dinner with her. 1937 65438+1October, Hughes successfully broke the flight record across the American continent. He ran to a telephone booth at the airport and sent this message to Hepburn: "We have landed. Very safe. In Newark. Love you. Howard. " That year, they began to live together.
For a time, the two had a good relationship. Hughes took Hepburn around America. "It was a completely heavenly life," Hepburn later recalled. On one occasion, they even took off from under the bridge on 59th Street in new york. After a short flight, they felt too hot, so they stopped to swim in the middle of Long Island.
1in March, 938, Hughes went to fenwick to meet Hepburn's family, and was given a cold shoulder by the northern family. To make matters worse, Hepburn's ex-husband, Rudro Stephen, appeared in front of them from time to time, and the Hepburn family was obviously more enthusiastic about him than Hughes. This added a rift to their relationship. After that, their relationship went wrong. Both of them have very strong personalities and there are many disputes in their careers. Hepburn even threatened to jump off a building because he was fired by Lei Dianhua. After Hughes completed his first solo flight around the world in 38, he proposed to Hepburn, but Hepburn didn't agree. Hughes said you have three days to think about it. This made Hepburn feel depressed. Their matchmaker gary grant tried to persuade Hughes to give in, but Hughes refused. Nothing can be undone, and the two broke up.
This relationship was regarded by Hughes as the last true love, and he began a magnificent and decadent trip to hook up. His target list includes almost all the A-list stars of that era: ginger rogers, bette davis, jean simmons, susan hayward, gene tierney, rita hayworth, marian marsh, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and Jane Peters. . . . . . It is said that only Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor didn't take the bait.
His pursuit is hard to refuse. He Gao Fushuai, there is another killer: give a wedding ring to his prey and swear to marry her. Sometimes he even uses this method to find a small church, hire a man as a priest, and pretend that his engagement has been witnessed by God-several years later, these illegal marriages will be a big headache for lawyers in charge of Hughes' estate litigation.
1948, Hughes bought control of the entire Radio Television China Film Company. While he keeps making good movies, he is also expanding his harem at an alarming rate. Hughes often points to a cover and says, "I want this girl!" " When he leafed through a magazine. Therefore, his men quickly found her and promised that Mr Hughes could make her a movie star, and then provided her with dance and line training courses, trimmed her teeth and exercised her body.
According to a gossip magazine, Hughes had "164 girlfriends" in Los Angeles at some time. But on the day the magazine was published, Hughes' men received an order: buy all the printed copies of this issue.
Betty Davis's husband found out that Howard Hughes was having an affair with his wife and filmed the whole process of their dating. The billionaire paid $75,000 for the video and gagged Betty's husband. This is howard hughes, the greatest playboy in American history. He got a nickname: "the biggest womanizer in the world". Howard hughes is a pilot and an engineer. He is an aviation enthusiast all his life, a pilot and a self-taught aviation engineer. Howard hughes/Kloc-began to learn to fly at the age of 0/4. He created many flying world records, and designed and manufactured many planes while he was in charge of Hughes Aircraft Company. The most important plane he designed should be the Hughes H- 1 racing car. 1On September 3rd, 935, howard hughes set a speed record of 566 km/h by driving H- 1 in the test flight. 1937 65438+1October19, howard hughes set a flight record of 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds from Los Angeles to new york, with an average flight speed of 5 18 km/h, compared with the previous record of 9 hours and 27 minutes.
H- 1 racer includes several innovative designs, such as streamlined fuselage, retractable landing gear, rivets and joints flush with the fuselage to reduce air resistance. World War II fighters such as Zero, Focke-Wulfw190 and F6F Hellcat were all influenced by H- 1. 1In 975, the used H-/kloc-0 in howard hughes was donated to the National Air and Space Museum under the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. ..
On July 1938 and 10, howard hughes set a world record of flying around the world at 9 1 hour.
William P. Hobby Airport in Houston was named howard hughes Airport in 1938, but the name of the airport was later changed back to its original name because people objected to naming the airport after people who were still alive.
Howard hughes won many awards in his life. Including 1936 and 1938 Harmon Trophy, 1939 Collier Trophy and 1940 Octave Chanute Award. The United States Congress awarded the Congressional Medal in recognition of its achievements in flying around the world. According to The New York Times, howard hughes never went to Washington to receive the prize. Finally, President Harry S. Truman gave the medal to howard hughes.
1938, transcontinental and western airlines (t&; WA) William John Frye, executive director, purchased a batch of 33-seat Boeing 307 aircraft. This kind of passenger plane is the first one with compression chamber in the world. William John Frye got enough money by lobbying howard hughes, who is also an aviation avant-garde, and howard hughes became T&; The largest investor in Western Australia. Thanks to Howard Hughes, T&; In the 1940s and 1950s, Western Australia was always an active buyer of the most advanced passenger aircraft. Under the management of Hughes, T&; WA has made great progress and changed its name to TWA. TWA was acquired by American Airlines (AA) on 200 1.
Hughes aircraft Corp.
Hughes Aircraft Company was founded by howard hughes in 1932, with the purpose of converting fighter aircraft into H- 1 racing aircraft. The company was located in the aircraft warehouse of Lockheed Aircraft Company in Bo Ban, California, when it was a division of Hughes Tools Company. During World War II, Hughes Aircraft Company became a major supplier of military aircraft, and then established a helicopter department in 1947.
1948, Hughes established a new division in the aircraft company, Hughes Aerospace Group. Since then, it has become an independent company. 196 1 became Hughes space and communication company. Hughes Aircraft Company was acquired by General Motors as Hughes Electronics Company in 1985. 1990 was sold by general motors in the late 1990s. Part of it was later merged into McDonnell Douglas, and eventually joined Boeing due to the merger of McDonnell Douglas. Another part of the company was merged by Raytheon on 1998.
air disaster
1On July 7th, 946, howard hughes crashed in Beverly Hills during the test flight XF- 1 1. The plane crashed into three houses and started a fire. Howard hughes was rescued by US Marine Sergeant William L. Du Jin, who was visiting a friend nearby. Howard hughes broke six collarbones in the accident and suffered extensive third-degree burns. Many people believe that howard hughes's extensive use of morphine and painkillers during treatment led to his later opium addiction. After the accident, he left his trademark moustache to cover up the scar on his upper lip.
H-4 Hercules
When World War II approached, Howard devoted all his energy to making military fighters. However, his secrecy measures and contempt for military agreements and standardized materials prevented him from obtaining government cooperation contracts. Henry kaiser, a famous shipbuilding expert, helped Howard win a contract worth180,000, and built three spaceships in three months. For Howard, these conditions are simply impossible to achieve. In the end, he only built a spaceship, and it was after the war. This spaceship only flew once, that is, the plane that howard hughes made the greatest efforts in his life was the H-4 Hercules, and people usually called it "Spruce Goose" (this plane was actually made of birch instead of spruce). H-4 is a giant seaplane, and it still holds the world record for the largest wingspan. Its fuselage height is the same as that of Airbus A380, ranking first in the world, but if the landing gear is removed, H-4 will be higher than Airbus A380. Its length is second only to An -225, and Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 rank fourth in the world. Howard hughes manipulated her to fly 10/0/mile on October 2nd. This plane was built for the application of the United States in World War II, but it was not completed until after the end of World War II. The US Senate set up an investigation committee and sent howard hughes to Washington to explain why the goods could not be delivered before the end of the war. But this investigation Committee was dissolved before the final report was submitted. Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1953 howard hughes founded Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Delaware, focusing on biomedical research, including the study of "the origin of life itself".
Richard Watergate incident
1960 Before the US presidential election, Richard Nixon was found out that his brother had accepted a loan of $205,000 from howard hughes and never returned it, and was defeated.
In Watergate, the broken-in office belonged to howard hughes's employees.
Secret salvage submarine
1972 the CIA asked howard hughes to help salvage a Soviet submarine that sank near Hawaii. In the name of collecting manganese nodules on the seabed, Howard hughes built a deep-sea submarine Glomar Explorer to carry out this secret project.
The salvage work started on 1974, but the mechanical failure during the salvage process caused the submarine to break and half of it sank to the bottom of the sea. Many people think that the lost half submarine contains the Soviet navy's codebook and nuclear missiles. Among the half submarines salvaged, the United States obtained two nuclear torpedoes and cipher machines, and also salvaged the bodies of six Soviet naval personnel. The staff held a formal sea burial for the six Soviet naval personnel and made a film record.
1974, a thief stole the relevant information from howard hughes's office.
1975, this action called "Jennifer Project" was exposed.
Old age of seclusion
Howard hughes suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. In the late 1950s, howard hughes, once one of the most outstanding figures in the United States, completely disappeared from public view. Although tabloids often report rumors about howard hughes, most of them can't be confirmed. For example, different newspapers reported howard hughes's death many times.
Howard hughes showed it a long time ago. In 1930s, a friend of howard hughes said that howard hughes was very concerned about the size of his favorite beans when he ate them. He wants to sort the beans by size with a special fork before eating. While filming The Rogue, howard hughes was obsessed with the small problem of jane russell's clothes, claiming that the folds on the clothes made jane russell's breasts look like they had two nipples. Later, he wrote a detailed memo to the staff to explain how to deal with this problem.
Howard hughes finally fell into complete seclusion and locked himself in a dark room every day. Although howard hughes has a barber on call, he only cuts his hair and nails once a year. Where Howard Hughes lives, there are usually several doctors hired by Howard Hughes at a high price, but Howard Hughes rarely lets them see a doctor or listens to them. In the last stage of his life, howard hughes's circle was mainly Mormons, because he believed that only Mormons could be trusted.
At this stage, howard hughes was addicted to cocaine, diazepam and other drugs, and his body became weaker and weaker. Many biographies and novels say that he put urine in milk and made shoes out of tissue boxes. But it is reported that he only made a shoe with a tissue box to "protect" himself when the toilet leaked. He insisted on putting a paper towel on when taking things, so as to be isolated from bacteria. Howard hughes was infected with syphilis when he was very young. Syphilis stage III, blisters on my hands. It is generally believed that the doctor has warned him not to shake hands with others at this stage. Howard hughes kept this habit of never shaking hands with others for life. Howard hughes once burned all his clothes. Some people think this is because he is worried that syphilis bacteria will parasitize his clothes.
In his later years, howard hughes moved from Beverly Hills to Boston and finally to Las Vegas to become a casino tycoon. 1966165438+1On October 27th, howard hughes bought the Desert Inn (now the location of Wynn Las Vegas). The eighth floor of this hotel became the control center of his kingdom, while the ninth floor became his private residence.
From 1966 to 1968, he bought drifters (now a mirage and the location of Treasure Island), frontier (now a new frontier), landmark hotels and casinos (now the location of the Las Vegas Convention Center) from the mafia. Several major hotels and casinos, such as Jinsha (where the Venetians are now) and silver slippers, freed Las Vegas from mafia control. He hopes to change the image of gangs and prostitutes in Las Vegas to "a man in a formal suit and a beautiful woman in jewelry and fur are getting out of a luxury car". Because of insomnia, he bought several local TV stations in Las Vegas so that he could watch the programs he wanted in the early hours of the morning.
Howard hughes's assets are controlled by a group nicknamed "Mormon Mafia" by outsiders. In addition to managing Howard Hughes' huge assets, this team is also responsible for satisfying Howard Hughes' strange wishes. Howard hughes once wanted to eat Baskin Robbins's banana nut flavor, but baskin robbins stopped producing this flavor of ice cream, so the Mormon mafia specially ordered 350 gallons according to baskin robbins's minimum order. But howard hughes said a few days later that he didn't want to eat banana nuts any more. Therefore, Deserteinn gave free banana nut ice cream to its casino customers for one year.
As a tycoon in Las Vegas, howard hughes has great political and economic influence in Nevada, and can even influence the outcome of the US presidential election. Worried about being exposed to nuclear radiation, howard hughes tried to provide 1 10,000 US dollars to US Presidents lyndon johnson and Richard Nixon to prevent them from conducting underground nuclear tests in Nevada. Howard hughes's assistant didn't really pay bribes, but told him that Johnson refused to take bribes, but Nixon couldn't get in touch.
197 1, joan peters filed for divorce on the grounds that they had been separated for a long time. Joan peters only asked for $70,000 a year in life support, adjusted for inflation, and gave up howard hughes's property. Howard Hughes wanted to give joan peters100000 dollars, but Peters refused. Howard hughes's assistant said that howard hughes had never spoken ill of Peters. Peters also refused to talk about her life with howard hughes, saying only that she hadn't seen howard hughes for several years before filing for divorce, and howard hughes only spoke to her by phone. Peters also turned down several very attractive biographers and publishers.
1972, the writer Clifford Owen announced that he would co-write howard hughes's autobiography with howard hughes. Before this autobiography was published, howard hughes publicly announced that he had never written an autobiography. Clifford Owen ended up in prison for fraud 14 months.
Death and legacy
1On April 5th, 976, 70-year-old howard hughes died on the plane on the way from his Mexican residence to Houston Methodist Hospital. Years of negligence made his face unrecognizable, and finally the FBI recognized him as howard hughes through his fingerprints.
Autopsy showed that he died of renal failure, but there was a lethal dose of cocaine and a lot of diazepam in his blood. Four broken needles were also found on his arm. He suffered multiple fractures and was found to be severely malnourished. His height is 180CM, but his weight is only 83 kg.
Howard hughes was finally buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. Howard hughes didn't leave a will, and there were many lawsuits about his legacy.