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Howard Hughes Hollywood: THE AVIATOR, Katharine Hepburn, RKO
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator Long before Leonardo DiCaprio, Tommy Lee Jones played billionaire Howard Hughes (right) in the 1977 television movie The Amazing Howard Hughes. Jason Robards played the old and haggard Hughes in Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama Melvin and Howard (1980), for which Robards received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor (he lost to Ordinary People's Timothy [...]