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- Birth nameRupert Raleigh Hughes
- Rupert Hughes was born on January 31, 1872 in Lancaster, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Souls for Sale (1923), True As Steel (1924) and Look Your Best (1923). He was married to Patterson Dial, Mrs. Rupert Hughes and Agnes Wheeler Hedge. He died on September 9, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- SpousesPatterson Dial(December 31, 1924 - March 23, 1945) (her death)Mrs. Rupert Hughes(June 22, 1908 - December 4, 1923) (her death)Agnes Wheeler Hedge(December 12, 1893 - July 12, 1904) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenElsbeth Hedge HughesAvis hughes
- RelativesHoward Hughes(Niece or Nephew)
- Uncle of producer/director Howard Hughes.
- Informally adopted the children of his second wife (Mrs. Rupert Hughes).
- Boyhood friend of Western writer Henry Wallace Phillips.
- He married Agnes Wheeler Hedge in 1893. They had a daughter named Elspeth Hedge.
- Died at the home of his brother, Felix, a voice teacher, at 204 North Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles.
- Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
- Of course they put communist propaganda in films. They paint a rich men as a fiend. They make every rich man in a play look like a fat boy in a museum, and every poor boy is made out as a skeleton. Actually, the only millionaires I've ever known were skinny dyspeptics--look at [John D. Rockefeller].
- [on film critics] We movie people should not be afraid of what people will say of our work. We should not allow a word or a theory to drive us into anything or away from anything without some strong inner reason. Most of all, we should not be afraid of popularity and of financial success. To have pleased millions of people with comedy, pathos or a well constructed story is to have done a glorious thing. You can call it art, merchandise, trash or wooden nutmegs, but you cannot rob it of its noble mission--to cast light into dark places.
- The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to disease by burning the medical books which describe them?
- We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights.
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