Squaw Man, The, 23
Stage Door, 160, 162, 164, 165
Standard Oil, 33
Stanwyck, Barbara, 249
Stauffer, Teddy, 253, 282
Steele, Joseph, 306
Stevens, George, 151, 180, 221
Stevens, K. T., 221
Stevens, Warren, 403
Stevenson, Robert, 338
Stewart, Anita, 17
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 322, 323
Stewart, Jimmy, 172, 178–79
Sting, The, 450
Stoddard, Mata, 33–35
Stolkin, Ralph E., 352, 354
Story of Irene and Vernon Castle, The, 181
Stradner, Rose, 402
Strangers’ Banquet, The, 30–31
Strapless bras, 196
Streetcar Named Desire, A, 365
Stromberg, Hunt, 253
Stromboli, 305–7, 312–16, 316n, 325
Studio Club, 14, 189
Studio Relations Committee, 106
Studio system, 189, 285
Sturges, Louise, 250
Sturges, Preston, 234, 249–50, 458–59
Columba, 249–50, 261
Domergue and, 244, 249–50, 251, 261, 280–81
Players Club, 234, 458–59
Russell and, 260
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, 250
Unfaithfully Yours, 267
Sullavan, Margaret, 160
Sullivan, Charles, 105
Sullivan’s Travels, 234, 249
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 83
Sunset Boulevard, 361
Sunset Las Palmas Studios, 51n
Sunset Tower Hotel, 378
Supreme Court, U.S., 285, 316n
Swanson, Gloria, 18, 90
Sweet, Blanche, 12
Sweethearts and Wives, 96
Swell Hogan, 43–44, 99
Swertlow, Frank, 464–65
Swing Time, 180
Sylvia Scarlett, 158–59, 162
Syphilis, 20, 429n
Tailwaggers Society, 175, 176
Talkie revolution, 95–96, 101
Talmadge, Norma, 17
Tarr, Beatrice “Bappie,” 203, 204, 211, 245, 247–49
Tarr, Larry, 203
“Taxi dancers,” 359n
Tax Reform Act of 1969, 444n
Taylor, Elizabeth, 66, 358, 370–71, 375, 377, 441
Taylor, William Desmond, 21, 25
Technicolor, 69, 70, 89
Terry, Ruth, 182n
Tevlin, Creighton J. “Tev,” 287
Thain, Wilbur, 450, 451
Thalberg, Irving, 4, 117–18, 122–23, 139
Thatcher School, 29
They Drive by Night, 319
Thirteen Women, 151–52
Thomas, Olive, 19–20, 25
Three Coins in the Fountain, 396
Three Men in White, 246
Three on a Match, 126
Time (magazine), 237, 276, 293–95, 365
Tintypes, 65, 65n, 363–64
Todd, Mike, 66
Todd, Thelma, 112, 137–39, 210, 318
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), 194, 207, 419
To Have and Have Not (movie), 194, 419
Toland, Gregg, 197
Tom, Dick, and Harry, 343
Tone, Franchot, 132
Topaz, 449
Top Hat, 180
Top Secret (magazine), 388
Top Secret Affair, 419
Town House Hotel, 257, 275, 316
Tracy, Spencer, 110, 126, 136–37, 146, 147, 148, 151, 158
Trocadero (nightclub), 112, 137, 139
Trumbo, Dalton, 184, 322, 323
Truth with Jack Anderson (TV show), 459
Turner, Lana
arrival and signing in Hollywood, 205, 226, 288
biographical sketch, xiii
Hughes and, 141, 228–29, 288
Shaw and, 255
TWA (Trans World Airlines), 210, 233, 246, 276–77, 350, 404–5, 422–25, 427, 430, 438, 440
Twentieth Century Fox, 268, 413
Moore and, 376–77
The Outlaw, 222, 258
Peters and, 269–70, 364, 367, 398, 419, 426
Russell and, 393
Two Arabian Knights, 47, 48, 49
Umberto D, 351
Underwater!, 404–5, 406
Unfaithfully Yours, 267
United Artists (UA), 17, 99, 101–2, 108, 109, 110, 257, 383
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 285
Universal City, 16
Universal Pictures (Universal Studios), 15–16, 70–71, 99, 330
University of Alabama, 453
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 192, 427, 435, 443
University of Miami, 390
University of Ohio, 269
UPI (United Press International), 457, 459–60
US Magazine, 465
USO (United Service Organizations), 375
Valentino, Rudolph, 3
Vanderbilt, Gloria, xiii, 209–10, 214, 225
Vanity Fair, 26
Van Zandt, Philip, 388
Varconi, Victor, 126–27
Variety (magazine), 7, 96–97, 257, 314, 346, 391, 394, 457
Vendetta, 249–50, 261, 280–81, 291, 300, 328–30
Vernon Country Club, 46
Vertigo, 301
Vicki, 365
Vietnam War, 28
Vista del Arroyo, 30
Viva Zapata, 363, 365, 377
Vizzard, J. A., 386
Von Rosenberg, Charles, 245
Von Sternberg, Josef, 47, 336, 338–39
Vuitton, Louis, 150
Wagner, Robert, 376
Wait ’til the Sun Shines, Nellie, 362, 363, 396
Waldorf-Astoria, 273–74, 283
Walker, Danton, 255
Wallis, Hal, 397
Wall Street Crash of 1929, 88
Wall Street Journal, 351–52, 353–54
Wanderer of the Wasteland, 69
Wanger, Walter, 254, 304
Warner, Jack, 179, 205
Warner Bros., 124, 126, 179, 205, 225, 274, 299, 319, 320. See also First National Pictures
War of 1812, 221
War Production Board, 274
Wasserman, Lew, 240–41
Waterbury, Ruth, 16
Waterfield, Robert, 192, 223, 240, 241–42, 256–57, 341–43, 351
Wayne, David, 362–63
Wayne, John, 336, 392–93, 394
Weber, Lois, 15–16, 70–74, 114
Welch, Raquel, 293
West, Roland, 138
Whale, James, 80–81, 82, 88–89
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 372
Where Danger Lives, 328–29, 330–31, 334
Whitaker, Alma, 94, 135
White, Gordon S., 313–14
White, Pearl, 13–14
White, Stephen, 46, 59
Why Must I Die?, 456
Widmark, Richard, 367–70, 377
Wife Versus Secretary, 136
Wild Calendar, 300
Wilde, Cornel, 321, 323, 324
Wilder, Billy, 361
Wilkerson, Billy, 392
Willat, Boyd, 76–77
Willat, Irvin, 65, 66, 69–70, 74, 76–77, 79n, 94, 97, 115
Williams, Hope, 166
Williams, Robert, 120
Willson, Henry, 205
Wilshire Country Club, 49
Wilson, Al, 53
Wilson, Earl, 275
Winchell, Walter, 177
Winesburg, Ohio, 446
Wings, 63, 88–89
“Winners, The” (Kipling), 266
Winston, James, 41
“Wolf Pack,” 209
Woman in Hiding, 328
Woman of Affairs, A, 63
Woman of the Year, 151
Women and Hughes, 6–7, 41–42, 47, 59–60, 125–26, 135–36, 141–42, 204–5, 225–26, 228–29, 288–89, 299–300, 414–15, 419–22. See also specific women
&nbs
p; Women’s suffrage, 11, 86, 184
Wood, Sam, 184, 186
World War I, 24, 27–28, 52
World War II, 217, 221, 225, 227, 240, 241–42, 262, 274, 320, 321
attack on Pearl Harbor, 215–16
Wuthering Heights, 197
Wyler, William, 160, 176
Wynter, Dana, 290
Young, Collier “Collie,” 320, 324, 325, 326–28, 355–56
Young, Loretta, 120, 283
Young Widow, 253, 282
Zanuck, Darryl
Harlow and, 120n
Hughes influence over, 376–77
Landis and, 293
Monroe and, 268, 458n
Moore and, 376–77
The Outlaw and, 258
Peters and, 269, 270, 365, 398–99
Russell and, 393
Zehner, Harry, 386
Zeppo Marx Inc., 205, 226
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 67–68
Ziegfeld Follies, 19, 67–68
Ziegler, William, 326
Photo Section
“My wife wept for hours over this thing”: Ben Lyon in a personal snapshot sent to a fourteen-year-old fan in 1928. Lincoln Quarberg papers/photographer unknown
Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon in a publicity still for Hell’s Angels. Harlow is wearing the evening gown that Hughes designed to turn her body into a spectacle on par with the film’s airplane stunts. John Springer Collection/Getty Images
Billie Dove in Cock of the Air. Bettmann/Getty Images
Ginger Rogers and Howard Hughes, on a date in the early 1930s. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
An extravagantly feminized Katharine Hepburn in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), her film debut. Bettmann/Getty Images
Bette Davis met Hughes at a charity ball in 1938, shortly after his flight around the world. They then embarked on an affair that ended her first marriage. Bettmann/Getty Images
After countless photo shoots for The Outlaw, after being asked to jump on a bed in a nightgown, Jane Russell felt she had been pushed too far. Gene Lester/Getty Images
The photo that launched a phenomenon: Jane Russell shot by master photographer George Hurrell to promote The Outlaw. Donaldson Collection/Getty Images
After years of buildup, Faith Domergue got her best role for Howard Hughes in Where Danger Lives, opposite Robert Mitchum. Bettmann/Getty Images
Richard Jaeckel and Terry Moore in Come Back, Little Sheba, for which Moore was nominated for an Oscar. Archive Photos/Getty Images
Jane Russell’s costume in The French Line drew protests from the censors—and from Russell herself. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Marilyn Monroe, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter on the set of Niagara (1953). Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images
Jean Peters and Richard Kiley in Pickup on South Street, a film that sexualizes domestic violence. John Springer Collection/Getty Images
Hughes and Ava Gardner in 1946, in between her marriages to Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner played a character she believed was based on herself, opposite Warren Stevens as an emotionally distant tycoon clearly modeled after Howard Hughes. Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
“Legitimate widow”: Terry Moore at her 1983 press conference to announce her settlement with the Hughes heirs. Bettman/Getty Images
About the Author
KARINA LONGWORTH is the creator, writer, and host of You Must Remember This, a podcast on the secret and forgotten history of twentieth-century Hollywood. A former film editor at LA Weekly and critic for the Village Voice, she is the author of four previous books, including Hollywood Frame by Frame and Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Names: Longworth, Karina, 1980- author.
Title: Seduction : sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood / Karina Longworth.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Custom House, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references. | Includes filmography.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018029872 (print) | LCCN 2018042755 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062440532 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062440518 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062440525 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780062859679 (large print) | ISBN 9780062898210 (ANZ edition)
Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture industry—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. | Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976—Relations with women. | Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Biography. | Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—History.
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*In addition to being “gross, ugly, [and] hairy,” Eddie Mannix would distinguish himself as MGM’s key “fixer,” who made scandals go away. Allegedly, some of these scandals included Mannix’s own abuse of women. See David Stenn, “It Happened One Night . . . at MGM,” Vanity Fair, April 2003.
*The Random House Dictionary dates the use of the word movie to refer to a “moving picture” to 1905–10. Silent film historian Kevin Brownlow suggests that those who used “movies” as a slur for people were “ignorant” that the term was in use to refer to the product. Kevin Brownlow, The Parade’s Gone By . . . (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 36.
*It was actually harder to go out for a drink in Hollywood before prohibition took hold nationally—after the law passed, speak
easies began to proliferate. See Jim Heimann, “Those Hollywood Nights,” Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2006.
*An unsourced anecdote in Richard Hack’s Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters; The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire claims Howard Sr. met Boardman in New York in 1916, when she was an eighteen-year-old model, and that Hughes offered to introduce the young, aspiring actress to his brother Rupert on that first meeting. Whether or not this meeting occurred as outlined by Hack, and whatever the exact nature of Howard Sr.’s interest in Boardman before Allene died, it seems likely that he had something to do with his brother’s studio selecting Eleanor as one of their two “new faces” and signing her to a contract. The fact that she was beautiful and talented didn’t hurt. See Richard Hack, Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters; The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire, Phoenix Books, Kindle edition, locs. 711–19.
*Hughes first flew in a seaplane as a passenger in 1920, at the age of fourteen, and became fascinated with aviation. Over the next few years, his parents refused to allow him to learn to pilot. It wasn’t until after Howard had settled in Los Angeles that he began taking private flying lessons. He earned his pilot’s license in January 1928.
*Today called the Sunset Las Palmas Studios.
*“I am distressed to hear that you have been suffering from your fractured cheek bone but I suppose the first report that you were just scratched slightly was just too good to be true.” Annette Lummis to “Dearest Howard,” January 19 (no year), Annette Lummis folder, TSA.
*Skolsky’s “Tintype” column began when he was a Broadway reporter at the New York Sun and ran for decades, in his home newspapers (he put in time at the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror, as well as the New York Post) and syndicated nationally.
*Dove was probably born between 1900 and 1904. In handwritten notes on a copy of a biographical article about her written by DeWitt Bodeen in the magazine Films in Review, which stated her birth year as 1901, Dove crossed out the year and wrote “Mother and Father hadn’t met yet,” but she did not supply her “correct” birth year. Billie Dove’s annotated copy of DeWitt Bodeen, “Billie Dove, An American Beauty,” in: Films in Review 30 (1979): 193–208. According to the 1920 census, Dove was born in 1903, but she also crossed out this year in a studio bio kept in her personal files. Both documents found in the Billie Dove collection.
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