Lauren Bacall – a dream come true
...Carmel Snow (the editor at Bazaar). Howard Hughes expresses an interest (well, there’s a turn up for the books!). But it is an invitation from Howard Hawks that Lauren accepts...
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Jane Greer – the queen of film noir
...Jane meets her Hollywood nemesis Jane Greer is brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes, the eccentric billionaire and film producer. It’s not difficult to see why Jane Greer caught the...
Gina Lollobrigida – the temptress of the Tiber
...Gina Lollobrigida and Milko Skofic Howard Hughes and Hollywood Gina Lollobrigida – anything but “the girl next door” Gina's second career Want to know more about Gina Lollobrigida? Growing up...
Unsafe sex – the starlet’s dilemma
...Which brings us, or rather her, to the casting couch. Three of Hollywood’s foremost lechers in the 1940s are Harry Cohn, Darryl F Zanuck and Howard Hughes. Harry Cohn, head...
Bette Davis and Howard Hughes
1938. Bette Davis with predator Howard Hughes. The caption reads: Film Celebrities Attend Tailwaggers’ Dinner. Beverly Hills, Calif. – With the idea of making Hollywood ‘Tailwagger conscious,’ Bette Davis, motion...
Jean Simmons and Claire Bloom – adventures of two north London girls
Jean Simmons and Claire Bloom were born within two years of each other to families living in London just a few miles apart. Both would sign contracts with J Arthur...
Hedy Lamarr – beauty, brains and bad judgment
...her inquisitiveness and ingenuity. And in interviews towards the end of her life she talks about how, while she was dating Howard Hughes, she designed a new wing shape to...
1939. Unlucky in love
...she makes a fatal mistake. Hot on the heels of her divorce in November from her first husband, orchestra leader Mischa Bakaleinikoff, she gets involved with inveterate womanizer Howard Hughes....
Marguerite Chapman – a real trooper
...was a fun, sassy performer who put in a shift to graduate from ‘B’-star to ‘A’-star status – no mean achievement. Age 21, at the behest of Howard Hughes, movie mogul, business tycoon,...
1947. A Halloween travesty
...pose that prefigures that of another Jane (Russell) in her notorious stills for The Outlaw. Howard Hughes and RKO clearly know what they like and can’t get enough of it....
1946. One of the first ladies of TV glamour
...his family home. Her husband, Eliott Roosevelt, is one of FDR’s sons. And, according to Wikipedia, none other than Howard Hughes acted as the match maker. In 1950 the couple...
Jane Greer in a leopard-print gown
1945. It’s not difficult to see why Jane Greer caught the eye of Howard Hughes. Here she manages to smoulder in spite of reclining on what looks like a very...