Editing Howard Hughes (section)

===Marriage to Jean Peters===
On January 12, 1957, Hughes married actress [[Jean Peters]] at a small hotel in [[Tonopah, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/660194603/Small-town-plans-Hughes-museum.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925045736/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/660194603/Small-town-plans-Hughes-museum.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 25, 2018|title=Small town plans Hughes museum|date=February 11, 2007|website=DeseretNews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-21-me-39956-story.html|title=Jean Peters; Actress in Film, TV Married Howard Hughes|first=Elaine|last=Woo|date=October 21, 2000|via=LA Times}}</ref> The couple met in the 1940s, before Peters became a film actress.<ref>The ''Delta Democrat-Times'' (Greenville, Mississippi), September 29, 1946, p. 4.</ref> They had a highly publicized romance in 1947 and there was talk of marriage, but she said she could not combine it with her career.<ref name="wdc">"Interview with [[Louella Parsons]]." ''Waterloo Daily Courier'' (Waterloo, Iowa), October 12, 1947, p. 19.</ref> Some later claimed that Peters was "the only woman [Hughes] ever loved",<ref>Anderson, Jack with Les Whitten. "Hughes and Jean Peters." ''[[The Gadsden Times]]'', April 13, 1976, p. 4.</ref> and he reportedly had his security officers follow her everywhere even when they were not in a relationship. Such reports were confirmed by actor [[Max Showalter]], who became a close friend of Peters while shooting ''[[Niagara (1953 film)|Niagara]]'' (1953).<ref name="casey">Weaver 2004, p. 9.</ref> Showalter told an interviewer that because he frequently met with Peters, Hughes' men threatened to ruin his career if he did not leave her alone.<ref name="casey" />