The Pilot.
Hepburn grows tired of Hughes' eccentricity and workaholism, and leaves him for fellow actor Spencer Tracy Hughes promptly discovers a new love interest with 15-year-old Belief Domergue, and later starlet Ava Gardner Nevertheless, he still has feelings for Hepburn, and kickbacks a reporter to maintain reports concerning her and the wedded Tracy out of journalism.
The short but much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Bargain Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
It is a historical epic that concentrated on an essential period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most popular and probably essential guys of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a total success, neither one of his best flicks, I still discover it to be extra amusing than most of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.
Clocking in at 169 mins, The Aviator tries to stay aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can maintain itself airborne only a few minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation sweatshirt pink photos: Miramax Warner Bros