Season 5
‘Oh Howard, You Idiot!’
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A billionaire turned recluse befriends a minor novelist. Together they seize the public’s imagination. Kind of. The true story behind the greatest autobiography you’ve never read.
SOURCES AND LINKS
- Orson Welles’ Fake
- Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth
- Autobiography of Howard Hughes by Clifford Irving(Terrificbooks.com)
- The Hoax: A Memoir by Clifford Irving
SOURCES AND LINKS
- Voice actor Alex Robertson
- BBC Motion Gallery / Getty Images
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Footage supplied by CBS News