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Ex-Actress Travels Incognito
Mrs. Howard Hughes Seldom Recognized
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Correspondent
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
(UPl)—The mystery that sur
rounds billionaire Howard
Hughes includes his wife,
former film actress Jean
Peters, who lives incognito and
unrecognized.
Mrs. Howard Hughes is 43
and has been married to the
secretive industrialist since
1957.
While Hughes makes his
home at Las Vegas’ Desert Inn
Hotel, one of six resorts he
owns along the famed Strip of
the Nevada city, his wife has
her choice of several splendid
homes in Beverly Hills and Bel
Air.
Security guards protect the
one-time Ohio State University
beauty queen as vigorously as
they do Hughes.
There is a difference, howev
er.
Moves Freely
Though Hughes, so far as
anyone knows, rarely if ever
ventures out in public, much
less among crowds, Mrs.
Hughes moves freely.
She attends the opera, ballet,
concerts and sports events
unrecognized.
Without makeup and in
inexpensive clothes, Jean Pe
ters Hughes could be mistaken
for any attractive middle-aged
housewife on shopping sorties
into Beverly Hills department
stores and boutiques.
But when she expertly applies
makeup and wears gowns
designed by Europe’s most
distinguished designers she is
breathtakingly beautiful, ac
cording to one friend who asked
that she remain unidentified for
fear of losing the secretive
Mrs. Hughes’ friendship.
The wife of one of the world’s
richest men attends baseball,
basketball and football games
in Los Angeles, frequently in
the company of a female
acquaintance, or accompanied
by a Hughes security man.
During the week she busies
herself with charitable works.
One of h£r favorite contribu
tions is reading for the Braille
Institute in a recording studio.
At night she attends a
university under an assumed
name working for a master’s
degree in sociology, although
she also takes art courses.
Prefers Los Angeles
She prefers the cosmopolitan
atmosphere of Los Angeles to
the gambling-resort town which
her husband has made his
headquarters.
Mrs. Hughes has her hair
done in a popular beauty parlor
in the center of the Beverly
Hills shopping district, but only
the woner of the shop and the
operator know her identity.
She visits the shop once a
week, calling only an hour or so
before her arrival to throw off
any possibility of setting a
regular routine which might be
followed by members of the
press or others.
During the warm months she
swims almost daily in her own
pool.
Each of the homes sprinkled
through the Bel-Aire, Beverly
Hills area owned by Hughes has
a pool.
Generally every house has
two exits by automobile in the
event of unforeseen problems.
Mrs. Hughes drives her own
late model imported automo
bile, but following it closely is
one occupied by members of
Hughes security forces.
Flies To Las Vegas
On Fridays, Mrs. Hughes
more often than not flies to Las
Vegas to spend two or three
days with her busy husband.
She is transported by one of
Hughes’ private planes which
lands on his own Las Vegas
airstrip, or by commercial
jetliner.
In either case she is met by a
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her husband. Again, she moves
unrecognized by the swarming
tourists intent on gambling or
soaking up the sun.
One former Hughes security
officer said she moves freely in
and out of the Desert Inn
without being detected by
guests in the hotel.
Hughes chooses to remain on
the topmost floor of the hotel
conducting business by tele
phone. But his wife frequently
visits other hotels to enjoy the
stars who appear at the various
spas.
A long-time friend of Mrs.
Hughes says she does not miss
her acting career, although
technically she is still under
contract to 20th Century-Fox
where she made her first
picture, “Captain from Cas
tile,” in 1946 co-starring with
Tyrone Power.
The green-eyed star made
several films for the studio, one
of the last of which was “Three
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A native of Canton, Ohio,
Mrs. Hughes was married once
previously, to businessman
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There is a tightly knit group
of friends who protect Mrs.
Hughes from outsiders, among
them actress Jeanne Crain.
Those who discuss Mrs.
Howard Hughes at all, do so
covertly, revealing as little as
possible, thereby weaving a
web of mystery every bit as
intriguing as that which sur
rounds her billionaire husband.
One confidant, however, said,
“Jean leads as normal a life as
possible considering her hus
band is Howard Hughes. A girl
in her position just doesn’t run
around making news.
“She’s not that way anyhow.
Jean is quiet and thoughtful,
and never did believe in all the
glamor stuff when she was, an
actress.”
It would appear that Mrs.
Hughes is happy with her life.
Certainly, she will not hold still
long enough to be interviewed
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