Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) and his life are documented extensively in the book Rupert Hughes: A Hollywood Legend (1997) by James 0. Kemm. Hughes was an author, director, and composer. He was also the nephew of the famed Howard Hughes. For other people named Howard Hughes, see Howard Hughes (disambiguation). ...
Hughes, active in civil politics, was one of the founders of the California State Guard in 1940.
He praised writer Jack Woodford on the jacket of Woodford's Why write a novel? (non-fiction). Jack Woodford (1894-1971) was a successful pulp novelist of the 1930s and 1940s. ...
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Hughes had earlier displayed symptoms consistent with OCD: In the 1930s, friends reported he was obsessed with the size of peas — one of his favorite foods — and used a special fork to sort them by size before he ate.
Hughes became addicted to codeine (injections), valium, and other painkillers, was extremely frail, stored his urine in jars and wore Kleenex boxes as shoes (although it has been reported that Hughes did this only once, as "protection" when a toilet flooded).
Hughes had contracted syphilis as a young man, and much of the strange behavior at the end of his life has been attributed by modern biographers to the tertiary stage of that disease.
Howard Hughes, Jr., the heir to the Hughes' $871,000 fortune and patent for a drill bit used in oil and gas drilling that brought large revenues to the family's Hughes Tool Company, was to later become a world renowned aviator, moviemaker, entrepreneur and reclusive billionaire before his death in April 1976.
Hughes agreed on the condition that he be allowed on the set of the film, and be given access to everyone working on the film, so that he might learn about the process himself.
Howard Hughes, Jr., suffered a nervous breakdown in 1944 and was critically injured in the crash of his experimental military plane in 1946, but he recovered and flew the huge seaplane the next year, blunting the congressional investigation of his war contracts.
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