Howard Hughes dated a fifteen-year old named Faith Domergue on Memorial Day who briefly rescued him from this well of paranoia and self-pity. The film had a long and troubled production history, with reshoots and several changes of director, further exacerbated by Hughes's health problems following a near-fatal plane crash he endured in July 1946. Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the aviation industry. Faith deliberately backed up her roadster and floored the gas pedal, crashing repeatedly into the passenger’s door. When Greer met with her new boss, the exact same controlling megalomaniac as the old one, she later recounted: Greer did go on to have one big breakthrough performance despite Hughes' meddling. In the late 1950s and 1960s she made many appearances on popular television series,[29] including Sugarfoot, Have Gun – Will Travel, Bonanza, The Rifleman, and two episodes of Perry Mason. [20] Her final credit for RKO was the 1954 drama This Is My Love, which was shot after the release in 1952 of her first film with Universal, The Duel at Silver Creek, in which she appeared opposite Audie Murphy. Vegas would be just another “telephone marriage,” with Hughes barricaded at the Desert Inn and she isolated far out in the Vegas wilds. [9] Despite the divorces, Domergue otherwise remained a practising Roman Catholic. In other words: he was a real c-word, and no one knew that better than Jane Greer. I'm very proud of him...I think he's delicious. Their early phase was giddy with romance. Domergue went on to appear in a multitude of science fiction and horror pictures, such as Cult of the Cobra, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, and The Atomic Man, all released in 1955, earning her a reputation as an early "scream queen". [14] Enamored with her, Hughes bought out her contract with Warner Brothers, [13] signed her to a three-picture deal with RKO,[15] and cast her in the thriller Vendetta (1950). Most Famous For: setting multiple world air-speed records, Check out our New "Top 10 Greatest Celebrity Studs", Check out our New "Top 10 Worst Celebrity Husbands". So Hughes allowed her to pay him back in installments of $25 a week, keeping his financial hooks in her for six grueling years. While a sophomore at University High School, she signed a contract with Warner Bros.,[11] and made her first on-screen appearance with an uncredited walk-on role in Blues in the Night (1941).