Faith Facts

Though in parts she's inept, or confused
From this starlet the sex appeal oozed
Howard Hughes would discover
When he'd lose her as lover
Break her heart and this ex is short-fused.

A poster for Cult of the Cobra (Francis D. Lyon; 1955) starring Faith Domergue. Thanks to faithful David Cairns for title and the edit.

Student Groans

Faith degreed in the school of H Hughes
PHD'd in the paying of dues
But when class was dismissed
The poor lassie was pissed
So high-keyed, she was seeing chartreuse.



Faith Domergue goes ballistic in Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950); with Robert Mitchum.

Faith Debased Initiative

Howard Hughes turned her into a starlet
Did he use her then spurn her, the varlet?
When Miss Gardner came next,
Was his ex-partner vexed?
Did the blues make the harlot burn scarlet?

David Cairns (and Surly Hack, kibbitzer)

A poster for the Hughes production Vendetta (1950). From Mr Cairns: When Howard Hughes jilted his discovery, Faith Domergue, in favor of new squeeze Ava Gardner, Domergue came after them both, ramming into their car with apparent homicidal intent.

Later, Gardner discovered Hughes was bugging her apartment and stunned him with a blow to the head with an ashtray. Being a millionaire playboy can be dangerous.

Casting Ouch

Howard Hughes, when he wasn't Spruce Goosing,
Put loosely, was movie producing

He obsessed on re-shooting
And undressed, while recruiting,
Those beauties he loved "introducing".

Faith Domergue, in the trailer for the film noir Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950). Domergue was one of the many starlets Hughes signed to film contracts, in many cases as a means to add them to his Las Vegas harem.

Faith Front

Howard Hughes liked his men to be lusty
To enthuse them his women were busty
A voluptuous chest
In a D-cup impressed
But the news is tycoons aren't trusty.

David Cairns

Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue in the film noir Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950), a movie made at RKO, the studio owned by millionaire Howard Hughes.

Standout of the Past

No beauty in noir would appear
more stunning than that of Jane Greer
She lit the short fuse
of boss Howard Hughes
who almost derailed her career



Jane Greer in Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)