#howard hughes

[oldguydoesstuff]

Howard Hughes in the cockpit of the 300,000 pound, wooden hull "Spruce Goose". It was the largest plane ever built, had a 320 ft wingspan. It was a huge boondoggle and it flew only once, with Hughes stubbornly piloting it to prove it was airworthy.

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#aviation history #Howard Hughes

[tygerland]

The Aviator 2004

#martin scorsese #leonardo dicaprio #2000s #the aviator #films #retro #movies #killers of the flower moon #kate blanchett #kate beckinsale #old hollywood #cinematography #ava gardner #filmedit #cinema #hollywood #katharine hepburn #film #celebs #howard hughes #🎬

[citizenscreen]

Howard Hughes and Ginger Rogers dancing at the Rainbow Room in New York City.

#howard hughes #ginger rogers #old hollywood

[dronescapesvideos]

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation N6909C. ➤➤ Constellation VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ZpLhtrRIIDA ➤➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/LC

#lockheed #constellation #howard hughes #youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #documentary #aviation history

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Hughes H-4 Hercules

The Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be used in the war. The aircraft made only one brief flight, on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced.

#Hughes H-4 Hercules #Hughes H-4 #Hercules #Spruce Goose #plane #howard hughes

[livesunique]

Ms Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida OMRI (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023)

Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Ms Lollobrigida was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. She studied sculpture at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts, and started her career with minor Italian film roles before coming third in 1947’s Miss Italia pageant. 

After refusing a contract with Howard Hughes to make three pictures in the United States in 1950, Ms Lollobrigida gained for starring turns in 1952’s “Fanfan la Tulipe” and 1953’s “Bread, Love and Dreams,” the latter of which netted her a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actress.

Ms Lollobrigida’s first American film was “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 adventure comedy directed by John Huston that cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart. Over the course of the ’50s and ’60s, she starred in numerous French, Italian and European-shot American productions, with highlights including “Trapeze” with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as Esmerelda, “Solomon and Sheba” with Yul Brynner, “Never So Flew” with Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen, “Come September” with Rock Hudson, and “Woman of Straw” with Sean Connery, and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” with Shelley Winters.

Her roles made her a major sex symbol of Italian cinema; in 1953, she won Italy’s David di Donatello award for Best Actress for her performance in the opera star Lina Cavalieri’s biopic “Beautiful But Dangerous,” known in Italian as “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” 

She later won two more David di Donatello Award for “Imperial Venus” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” a Golden Medal of the City of Rome in 1986, a 40th Anniversary David in 1996 and a 50th Anniversary David in 2006. In 1961, she won the Golden Globes’ Henrietta Award for “World Fan Favorite,” and received nominations for “Falcon Crest” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”

After the ’60s, Lollobrigida’s career began to slow down, but she continued to act intermittently, including in the 1995 Agnes Varda film “Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma,” and in ’80s TV shows such as CBS’ “Falcon Crest” and ABC’s “The Love Boat.” 

Ms Lollobrigida also developed a successful second career in photojournalism during the ’80s. She obtained an exclusive interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and also photographed many famous film stars, as well as publishing a number of books of her photographs.

In 2011 she made her final film appearance, playing herself in a cameo for the Italian parody film “Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films.”

The screen legend sale of some of her 23 jewels from her Bulgari  collection at Sotheby’s in 2013 to help fund an international hospital for stem-cell research. 

On 16 October 1999, Lollobrigida was nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Ms  Lollobrigida won the Berlinale Camera at the Berlin Film Festival in 1986, Karlovy Vary Film Festival special prize in 1995, and the Rome Festival’s career prize in 2008. In 2018, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ciao, Gina, Riposa in Pace

(Armando Pietrangeli, “Light and Shadow,” Gina Lollobrigida,1960, Trapeze 1956, Woman Of Rome,1954, Salomon & Sheba,1959, Come September, 1961,Un Bellissimo Novembre,1968, The Hunchback of Notre Dame,1956, In London to publicise her book of photographs titled Italia Mia,1974, Fidel Castro shot by Ms Lollobrigida,1974, Gina Lollobrigida pictured on July 11, 2022 in Rome).

#art #movirs #film #legend #gina lollobrigida #rip #rip gina lollobrigida #agnes varda #rock hudson #ciao #photography #icon #holywood #italy #falcon cest #the love boat #Esmeralda #yul brynner #howard hughes #paul newman #fidel castro #tony curtis #sheba #the hunchback of notre dame #trapeze #bafta #burt lancaster #frank sinatra #golden age #UN

[pedroam-bang]

The Aviator (2004)

#2004 #gif #film #movie #aviation #The Aviator #Martin Scorsese #Leonardo DiCaprio #Howard Hughes #John C. Reilly #Noah Dietrich #Cate Blanchett #Katharine Hepburn #Kate Beckinsale #Ava Gardner #Jude Law #Errol Flynn #Hell's Angels #Fokker #D.VII #Royal Aircraft Factory #S.E.5

[oldshowbiz]

The Howard Hughes Building on Romaine is where his major films like Hell’s Angels (1930) and Scarface (1932) were edited.

It seems incongruous that it is located next to a massive cement factory, but that cement factory provided the cement for the footprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater and the sidewalk known as the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

#Hollywood #howard hughes #RKO #kliph walking tour #art deco #architecture

[jeanharlowshair]

Modern Screen Magazine, September 1949.

#1940s #modern screen magazine #loretta young #irene dunne #deborah kerr #ray milland #rosalind russell #walter pidgeon #cary grant #claudette colbert #frank sinatra #barbara stanwyck #howard hughes #van johnson #joseph cotten #ann blyth #robert mitchum #humphrey bogart #jeanne crain #gary cooper #clark gable #bob hope #ann sothern #john garfield #old hollywood #old movie stars #old magazines #old movies #classic hollywood

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Poster - The Las Vegas Story (Australian)

RKO (1952)

#Posters #Film #The Las Vegas Story #Las Vegas Story #Jane Russell #Victor Mature #Vincent Price #Hoagie Carmichael #Vintage #Art #Las Vegas #RKO Pictures #RKO #RKO Radio Pictures #Howard Hughes #1952 #1950s #50s

[citizenscreen]

Ginger Rogers and Howard Hughes dancing in New York’s Rainbow Room in 1936

#ginger rogers #howard hughes #old hollywood

[frances73]

can you draw leo dicaprio as howard hughes in the aviator 2004 i wanna see how you draw his scrunched little face <333

ooops i think i made him look a bit more like mr hughes than he does

#hiiiiiiii #the aviator #howard hughes #leonardo dicaprio #art #my art #fan art #asks

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

H-4 Hercules

The Hughes Flying Boat—the H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose” - at one time the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight November 2nd in 1947.

#H-4 Hercules #plane #howard hughes #Spruce Goose

[earlefromunder]

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#video editing #howard hughes #40s #70s movies #tommy lee jones #william graham #movie actors #film #the devil wears prada #billionaire #texan #down south #boy howdy

[pedroam-bang]

The Rocketeer (1991)

#1991 #film #movie #aviation #The Rocketeer #Billy Campbell #Cliff Secord #Jennifer Connelly #Jenny Blake #Timothy Dalton #Neville Sinclair #Terry O'Quinn #Howard Hughes #Dave Stevens #Los Angeles #California #Zeppelin #rocket pack