Saturday, November 8, 2008

Hughes and actor George Hamilton's mom

The actor George Hamilton has a new memoir out, and of course there's a Howard Hughes connection. In a recent feature about the book, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports:

"His love of women began with his mother, Anne Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding, a multi-married Southern belle and beauty, nicknamed Teeny, whose motto should have been, ‘There's nothing incredible about miracles,' he writes. His father, husband No. 2, was a band leader, and after his parents' divorce, Teeny took her three boys across the country in a Buick Roadmaster to find a rich husband and a new life in Hollywood.

"‘Our road trip was all hopes and great expectations,' he explains. As the beautiful new face in Hollywood, she went out with a variety of men, including Howard Hughes and Ronald Reagan. The tale of his childhood adventures has been made into a film, My One and Only, a comedy starring RenĂ©e Zellweger as his mother, to be released next year."

I can't confirm it through an Internet search, but one has to wonder whether Hughes will be depicted in the movie. Considering she dated Hughes and Ronald Reagan, two of the biggest names of the 20th century, I know I'd want to put them in the movie.

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