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Howard Hughes and OCD typically behaviors such as spending money without considering the consequences, were most likely the reason he became so obsessed with his home state of Texas that he began to buy all of the four star hotels and restaurant chains that were founded within the Texas borders.
Howard Hughes was a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ( OCD ). He was a very famous Hollywood director and producer, but he developed a severe case of OCD which caused him to withdraw from society. His OCD made him extremely paranoid and he would often obsess over germs and contamination.
Howard Hughes (1905–1976) was an American business magnate, investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
The inventor, film producer and eccentric recluse billionaire who, according to legend, was crippled with obsessive-compulsive disorder in his final years and barely seen by anyone, Hughes has...
Howard Hughes--the billionaire aviator, motion-picture producer and business tycoon--spent most of his life trying to avoid germs. Toward the end of his life, he lay naked in bed in darkened hotel rooms in what he considered a germ-free zone. He wore tissue boxes on his feet to protect them.
The wide acknowledgment that Hughes had OCD and mysophobia, a fear of germs and contamination, serves to support the plausibility of such scenes in the film. The exact manifestation of Hughes’ obsessive-compulsive tendencies, however, is not entirely determinable, especially in private settings.
The Aviator tells the story of the early adult life of Howard Hughes, the notoriously eccentric and talented billionaire. Hughes was a driven and often successful aeronautics engineer, filmmaker, and lady’s man in Hollywood of the 1920s-1940s.
