Works about Howard Hughes
  • Film: The Aviator (film), Biopic of the early years of Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s
Themes with Howard Hughes

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Aerospace Engineer HUGHES FLYING BOAT (HERCULES) McMinnville
1931/01/00 Howard Hughes and former Fox West Coast executive Harold B Franklin establish the Hughes-Franklin Company. By March, company will own 125 theater in eight states. Work
1931/04/04 "The Front Page " is released. Producer The Front Page (1931 film)
1932/04/09 "Scarface: The Shame of a Nation " is released. Producer Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
1939/03/00 With the help from Howard Hughes, Theatre Guild and the play's author, Philip Barry, Katharine Hepburn buys the film rights to "The Philadelphia Story". Financier The Philadelphia Story
1944/04/26 Jack Frye and Howard Hughes meetup with Orville Wright in a C-69 Lockheed Constellation at Wright Field for a 50-minute flight over Dayton, Ohio. Pilot Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio
1947/11/02 Pilot Howard Hughes and copilot Dave Grant fly the H-4 at 70 ft (21 m) off the water for about one mile (1.6 km). Pilot HUGHES FLYING BOAT (HERCULES) McMinnville
1948/00/00 Hughes acquires RKO. The globe on top of Stage 21 at Gower St and Melrose Ave originally supported a radio tower with RKO in neon lettering beaming out a Morse code signal "An RKO Radio Picture" (or in the studio's earliest releases, A Radio Picture). Owner RKO Pictures Studio Los Angeles
1949/00/00 Howard Hughes establishes an apartment and screening room in the Pantages. Hughes will sell RKO Pantages in December 1967. Work Hollywood Pantages Theatre Los Angeles
1952/12/11 "Angel Face " is released. Producer Angel Face
1955/00/00 Hughes sells RKO to General Tire's broadcasting subsidiary, General Teleradio (which would be renamed RKO General). General Tire aired RKO films on the company's TV stations. Owner
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