Howard Hughes is the archetypal super-rich hermit, said never to have trimmed his nails and to have kept urine in jars. But who was he really? Nicholas Barber takes a look. It takes a brave ...

Dummar, who made international headlines and inspired the 1980 film “Melvin and Howard” with claims ... his teeth or trimming his fingernails. At the time of Hughes’s death, Dummar owned ...

"If the name Howard Hughes is attached to something ... appearances in 1972-73 of a Hughes who was emaciated, with curled fingernails and long hair, "a crazy person," within weeks of an appearance ...

April 7, 1976: On this day, the Chronicle reported on the autopsy of Howard Hughes ... emphasized that the eccentric Hughes did not have three-inch long fingernails, he simply looked like an ...

Before he became the circus-freak hermit with long hair and fingernails, Howard Hughes was one of the most colorful personalities ever in show business, a maverick who was among the first to ...

Emaciated, with freakishly long hair and nails, the wheelchair-bound eccentric ... this physical disability dated back as early as the 1930s. "Howard Hughes was a curious fellow," the actress ...

Howard Hughes! Like pet rocks and platform shoes ... his hair long and stringy, his untrimmed nails like yellow claws. X-rays revealed numerous broken hypodermic needles lodged in his track ...

Dummar, whose story was depicted in the 1980 film “Melvin and Howard ... Hughes, an aviation and movie mogul and business tycoon who spent his final years in seclusion, his hair and fingernails ...

Mr. Dummar, who made international headlines and inspired the film “Melvin and Howard” (1980 ... his teeth or trimming his fingernails. At the time of Hughes’s death, Mr. Dummar owned ...