Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes (1872—1956) was a historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865. His brother Howard R. Hughes, Sr., co-founded the Hughes Tool Company. He was the uncle of Howard Hughes, the famous aviation magnate and filmmaker. His three volume scholarly biography of George Washington broke new ground in demythologizing the general and was well received by historians. Hughes, active in state politics, was one of the founders of the California State Guard in 1940.^[1]

This 1921 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph Barton shows the famous people who, he imagined, left work each day in Hollywood; use cursor to identify individual figures.

Works

• Famous American Composers (1900)
• The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1903)
• Excuse Me (1911), novel
• Destiny (1925), novel
• George Washington: The Human Being and the Hero (1926)
• The Triumphant Clay (1951), novel
• The War of the Mayan King (1952, his final novel)
• The Dozen from Lakerim
• The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 and Volume 2

Hughes' short story Don't Call Me Madame was filmed as Tillie and Gus in 1933.

Bibliography

• James O. Kemm. Rupert Hughes: A Hollywood Legend (1997)

Footnotes

1. ^ Kemm (1997)

External links

• Rupert Hughes' rebuttal of the John Gano baptism of George Washington legend in Time magazine on 26 September 1932.
• Works by Rupert Hughes at Project Gutenberg