Jane Greer (1924-2004) Howard Hughes, the eccentric billionaire, could make and break any actress's career on a whim and often did. In 1943, when Hughes saw a reproduction of a second world war recruitment poster in Life magazine of the petite, almond-eyed, 18-year-old Bettejane Greer, posing in a smart new WAC uniform, he told one of his acolytes to "find this girl as soon as possible and sign her up." Jane was whisked by Hughes from Washington DC, where she was born, to Los Angeles.
