Long white hair, outgrown fingernails, pills, dark rooms and tissues to keep away the dirt were among the descriptions of the life of billionaire...
Portrait of aviator and film producer Howard Hughes standing in front of his new U.S. Army Boeing pursuit airplane. The single-seater was rebuilt...
Howard Hughes , American multimillionaire who gained fame for breaking aviation records and building the world's largest plane, as well as producing...
One of the 2 engines of Howard Hughes' XF-11 reconnaissance plane, which he built for the AAF, lies in foreground after Hughes crashed while making...
Back in the air only a few weeks after winning a courageous fight for life, following the crash of an experimental airplane he was solo testing,...
Howard Hughes, millionaire airman and film producer, happy to be here, smiles for the cameramen on arrival at La Guardia Field on completion of his...
Howard Hughes accused Senator Williams , of Delaware, of the Senate War Investigating Committee today of using "outside pressure" to force the...
Millionaire planemaker Howard Hughes is surrounded by members of the press after successfully taking his 200-ton flying boat into the air in a...
Howard Hughes, record-smashing world flyer, as he appeared at the age of 21, when he was the son of a Texas oil producer, preparing to go to...
Millionaire plane designer Howard Hughes is shown being loaded into an ambulance shortly after his newest plane, the XF-11, crashed into three homes...
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes sits on the arm of a chair in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, posing with a map that...
American actor and dancer Ginger Rogers and American aviator Howard Hughes attend a social gathering together.
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes pauses while shaving to talk on the telephone, 1935. He holds a straight razor in...
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of his 219 ft flying boat HK-1, known as the 'Spruce Goose', on the day scheduled for testing when the plane made its...
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes stands in front of a wall-mounted street map, mid 1946.
Multi-millionaire businessman, film producer and director Howard Hughes on the eve of his Atlantic flight to Paris, 30th June 1938.
Multi-millionaire businessman, film producer and director, Howard Hughes a spectator at Howard Hawks' East-West croquet match. Original Artwork: A...
The world's largest plane takes to the air: Preparing for the initial taxi testing of his 24,000 horsepower flying boat, world's largest plane,...
Despite gossip of an engagement between Howard Hughes, young millionaire producer and Ida Lupino, English screen actress, Howard Hughes and Marion...
At the Agua Caliente is Howard Hughes, millionaire motion picture producer and aviator, actress Ruth Elder and actor Leo Diegel.
Howard Hughes, multimillionaire move producer and speed flyer, at the Chicago Municipal Airport preparing for a flight to Los Angeles, California, in...
"The Sky's the Limit" when Howard Hughes, industrialist, engineer and producer of motion pictures, decides to do a selling job. He brought a surplus...
Howard Hughes, sportsman pilot and movie producer who averaged 332 miles an hour to set a new transcontinental air record is shown being welcomed at...
Howard Hughes, millionaire movie producer and avid aviator, sitting with some of his Hollywood friends. Left to right, Howard Hughes, Marian Marsh,...
Millionaire Howard Hughes consults with his flight engineer and navigator , seated in their positions on the flight deck of Hughes' huge plywood...
The boyhood home of Howard Hughes, record-smashing globe circler, at 3921 Yoakum Boulevard, Houston, Texas, to which the flyer has been virtually a...
Actress Terry Moore stands before a giant poster of the late billionaire Howard Hughes May 24 during a press conference at which she again claims she...
Howard Hughes, motion picture producer, shown after a test hop in his new high powered plane, a Boeing Army pursuit ship. Hughes is said to be the...
Three interesting studies on plane builder, movie-maker, and headline-maker Howard Hughes as he returned to the witness stand before the Senate War...
Pretty blonde professional Judy Cook stands in front of palatial Beverly Hills home where Howard Hughes is said to have had lavish wartime parties....
Howard Hughes, millionaire aviator and film producer, dancing with film star Ginger Rogers at the Rainbow Room in New York City.
Washington, DC: Howard Hughes, above testifying that he did not offer to pay $100,000 if he could persuade New York officials to relax their ban...
Portrait of American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes as he stands among a group of people, dressed in a jacket and...
Howard Hughes and stunt flyer Roscoe Turner at an airport in California. Hughes is driving the official car of the Pacific Aero Club, California,...
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes sits at an unidentified event with American actress and screen icon Ava Gardner ,...
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer Howard Hughes listens during testimony before Congress, Washington DC, 1947. Hughes had been...
Howard Hughes the American aircraft manufacturer and film magnate, who after sustaining severe injuries in a plane crash in 1946 gradually became a...
Howard Hughes waves a modest greeting, Grover Whalen beams his satisfaction, and Mayor LaGuardia tosses a word to spectators as cavalcade moves up...
The world's largest helicopter, the jet-propelled XH-17, built by the Howard Hughes Aircraft Company for the U.S. Air Force, is photographed for the...
Howard Hughes, industry's greatest poker face in a game for billion dollar stakes, recently gave this gambling resort a glimpse of the hand he is...
Howard Hughes , American multimillionaire who gained fame for breaking aviation records and building the world's largest plane, as well as producing...
Movie stars of the first water turned out en masse to attend, in Tyrolean garb, the party given by Marion Davies upon her return from a five-month...
Los Angeles, CA: Obtaining the job under an asumed name, Howard Hughes, Millionaire motion picture producer, ws found working as a $250 a month pilot...
YOUNG FILM MILLIONAIRE ESCORTS ACTRESS TO NITE SPOT; HOLLYWOOD,CALIF: HOWARD HUGHES, YOUNG MILLIONAIRE WHO SPECIALIZES IN SPECTACULAR MOVIE DRAMAS,...
Howard Hughes, millionaire motion picture producer and aviation enthusiast, is seen here in the cockpit of his new Sikorsky Amphibian plane as he...
Scant few seconds after he officially set a new speed record for land planes with an average speed of 347.29 mph at the Irvine Ranch near Santa Ana,...
Pictured winging over the panorama of New York skyscrapers that it left less than four days ago is the silver monoplane, New York World's Fair 1939,...
The twin-motored plane in which Howard Hughes, millionaire, motion picture producer, and aviation enthusiast, plans an attempt to better the...
Howard Hughes as he appeared before the Senate War Investigating Subcommittee to defend himself against charges in irregular dealings in wartime...
Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsman and flyer, who, with a crew of four, was expected to take off from here today, July 2, for New York, jumping-off...
"It was in no way a stunt." That may have been the thought accompanying this expression on the lean, studious face of Howard Hughes, modest airman....
In the greatest reception since Lindbergh's, Howard Hughes and his four gallant companions paraded up Broadway July 15 almost smothered beneath...
