Career
She was a favorite guest on The Merv Griffin Show. She also made regular appearances on Regis Philbin"s Saturday Night in Saint Louis and Master of Arts Los Los Angeles Her waiting-list clients included Eva Gabor and Howard Hughes.
Roger Ebert profiled Hughes in the Chicago Sun-Times edition of February
9, 1967, an article that continues to be available on his website (rogerebertcom). Ebert pointed out how Hughes"s fame had grown after correctly forecasting a January 1967 blizzard that had paralyzed the Chicago region.
Hughes, in the interview with Ebert, predicted that Lyndon B. Johnson would not seek re-election as President, and furthermore that "the Democrats will come right to the brink of nominating Robert Kennedy but then switch to someone else." This was said more than a year before Lyndon Baines Johnson announced on March 31, 1968 that he would not seek a second term. Bobby Kennedy, then the likely Democrats" nominee, would be assassinated on June 6, 1968.
Often compared to astrologer Jeane Dixon during their careers, Hughes told Ebert, "I consider her to be a great woman..but, well, I have been more accurate."
Hughes was a popular guest on countless Chicago radio and television programs.
She died at age 92 at a nursing facility in Beecher, Illinois.
