Need to read some of Hughes' biography to better understand movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2005)

Unless the viewer hasn't read up on Howard Hughes' life, they might not understand what is going on. For instance when he burned all his clothes after Hepburn broke up with him, I read that he did burn all his clothes but after finding that one of his girl friends had venereal disease. This might insinuate that Hepburn had venereal disease. Looking up if Hepburn had a disease, I found that her dad was a doctor who advanced venereal disease prevention which Kathryn later took up. One might assume from this that perhaps her father's connection with venereal disease was because his daughter may have had it. In the movie it appears as though Howard burned his clothes in reaction to Hepburn breaking off with him which doesn't make any sense only in the context of his life where at some point he burned all his clothes upon learning that one his girlfriends had venereal disease.