BREAKING - Jane Russell dies at age 89

We are all bosoms, today.

She was only a few months away from age 90. I thought she was going to make it!

NO!!!!!!!!%0D %0D

What is the Care Net Pregnancy & Resource Center?

Last night's Oscars killed off her will to live.

Didn't really see this one coming.

She was old, sure, but she was still out and about at events last year. She would have been 90 in June.

She was tall, busty and gorgeous in her prime. But she was a right winger and she said EVERYONE in Hollywood was back then. I don't think that's true.

Another right wing looney bites the dust.

James Franco killed her when he walked out on stage dressed as Marilyn.

I wonder if they'll conveniently forget to include Jane Russell in next year's "In Memorium" Oscar segment?

She was a giant. They don't make legends like her anymore.

Her musical numbers with Marilyn Monroe in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" are amazing.

So sad. Loved her in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, , THE FRENCH LINE, MACAO, and that Bob Hope movie (Paleface?). %0D %0D RIP.

She left Montecito to move up to dusty, drab, poor Santa Maria, supposedly to be near her son. She probably also took a hit in the financial downturn. It's full of white evangelicals who love fetuses more than the brown people who work the local farms. Her causes were certainly not feminist and pro-choice.

LOL R9.

The New York Times is dragging its butt with this tedious focus on Libya. LA Times already has a big Hurrell photo of Jane at the top of its web page.

Here she is in 2005:

She is the last of the great ones. This truly marks the end of an era.

She attended the Oscars last year.

R13=MARY!

R13, Jane Russell had an abortion when she was younger which went very badly. That's what led to her being pro-life. If that's the position she felt was best to take, she had the right to it.

I remember when a film journalist interviewed her on TV and he mentioned her status as something of a gay icon thanks to Gentlmen Prefer Blondes. Her smile froze and she didn't say anything, only murmured.

R20, what happened?

She hated queers and was a supporter of the crazy TV evangelists. I don't see why we should give a shit about this evil old broad. She sure as hell had no use for gays.

She probably saw some eye opening things in Hollywood that upset her and drove her into the other direction.

Here you go, R22:

"I was 19 and unmarried when I got pregnant and that would have caused a scandal.(...)Back then nobody had a child out of wedlock. I had to go to school and find a friend who once had something done, and I asked her what to do. It's awful when you're in trouble and don't know where to turn.

"Abortion was illegal, so I had no choice but to go to an illegal backstreet abortionist. But it was botched and I darn near died. I was in bed for weeks and they had to take me to the hospital anyway. It left me unable to have children of my own. It was devastating."

[quote]She is the last of the great ones. This truly marks the end of an era.%0D %0D I'm still here, numbnuts!

Thanks, R25.

I'm still here

I'm still going.

Liz is still here... Kurt Douglas... Olivia DeHavilland, her mean sister....

Still here, bitches! Ha-Ha!

Jane just got a flashing banner at IMDB.

[quote]"Abortion was illegal, so I had no choice but to go to an illegal backstreet abortionist. But it was botched and I darn near died. I was in bed for weeks and they had to take me to the hospital anyway. It left me unable to have children of my own. It was devastating."

Huh, wouldn't that make you want to be pro-choice, so that if you want to have an abortion you or any other woman can have it done safely in a hospital?

She was no Heath Ledger.

R33, she was probably also upset about the baby.

No woman who worked with so many gay men could hate them.

R36, imagine a woman worked with a bunch of Dataloungers...

Last of the great ones? End of an era? For Jane Russell who made one decent film?%0D %0D Calm down, dears, you're hyperventilating.

This is sad and very sudden. She was doing interviews very recently and looked fine. Her early start with GHoward Hughes was very interesting. Hughes basically kept her from doing other movies for several years in the mid 40's.%0D %0D And, R38, she did quite a few good movies and was a major force in 40's and 50's.

She made three movies in the 40's and fifteen movies in the 50's. Only Gentleman Prefer Blondes is in anyway remarkable. This is not a "major force" in the movies. Sorry she's dead but legendary hardly cuts it.

r40%0D %0D She WAS box office. And she was an icon of 1950s glamour.

Jane's image on the "Outlaw" poster remains one of the iconic images of Hollywood history. She wasn't much of an actress, but she was a legend.

Hey R40,

FUCK YOU. Jane was fantastic.

Thanks R11 -- I needed the laugh!

Aw, there goes yet another part of David Gest's income stream.

The funeral will last 18 hours.

Poor R43, clinging to the legendary status of Jane Russell. An all caps "FUCK YOU" doesn't prove your point. %0D %0D Elizabeth Taylor is legendary. Marilyn Monroe is legendary. %0D %0D Just because someone died at an old age doesn't mean they are legendary. Just old. %0D %0D I loved Betty Garrett who was in better movies than Jane - and was a bigger star. But she, too, wasn't legendary, which is reserved for the great ones, the ones that you have to include in any history of Hollywood. You put a pic of Jane and Marilyn, plus the poster for the Outlaw and you've covered Jane.%0D %0D Now her Playtex Bra commercials! Legendary!

r48%0D %0D Betty Garrett was a bigger star than Jane Rusell?!

This is R43 replying to R47 - I never said that she was legendary, I said she was fantastic. Learn to read you bloody fucker.

FUCK! Now I can't say fuck Jane Russell. My shit will start disappearing, my car will start breaking down. The only thing that is worth mentioning is that she didn't bitch about working with Marilyn. Other than that--oh dear gawd my heart is racing about Olivia and Joan.

Anyone know the boys in this photo? The guy on the right looks familiar.

I saw her at the Hollywood Autograph Show last year, charging $25 a pop, alongside the likes of Ernest Borgnine and Joe Penney. There was quite a long line at Jane's table.

Those actors probably make 2 or 3 thousand in cash (undeclared, I'm sure) for those shows. I'm guessing Jane needed the money, though.

I'll never forget her very uncomfortable interview on the old Joan Rivers talk show in the '80's. Joan kept cracking jokes about Jane being some sort of sex bomb and Jane was obviously offended. Then Joan begged her to sing and Jane stayed put in her chair and gave some halfhearted performance through gritted teeth, obviously seething.

She never seemed to have much of a sense of humor. I can't imagine anyone considering her a gay icon.

In 1971 she succeeded Elaine Stritch in the role of Joanne in "Company." Russell performed the role for almost six months.

Are the lez rumors going to get stronger?

And what's your point R53?

"Ms. Russell had had previous problems with alcohol, but they became worse after she was widowed again; her grown children insisted that she undergo rehabilitation at the age of 79.

She also turned to conservative politics in her later years.

%E2%80%9CThese days I%E2%80%99m a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist,%E2%80%9D she told an Australian newspaper, The Daily Mail, in 2003. Bigotry, she added, %E2%80%9Cjust means you don%E2%80%99t have an open mind.%E2%80%9D

""Abortion was illegal, so I had no choice but to go to an illegal backstreet abortionist. But it was botched and I darn near died. I was in bed for weeks and they had to take me to the hospital anyway. It left me unable to have children of my own. It was devastating.""%0D %0D So she spent her later years trying to make abortion as illegal and unsafe as when she was young?%0D %0D It wasn't her brains that made her famous, obviously.

She did a lot of radio in the 40s and 50s and in the 50s, had a night club act that played Las Vegas, NYC, Europe and South America.

That swimming pool number with the men was pretty daring for the 1950's.

Some of you on this board don't know what you're talking about. Jane Russell was a HUGE supporter of gays. I stood side by side with her at many gay events (see example link). RIP dear Jane, a very classy and beautiful lady, inside and out!

[quote]Jane Russell had an abortion when she was younger which went very badly. That's what led to her being pro-life. If that's the position she felt was best to take, she had the right to it.

If whores would keep their legs closed they wouldn't regret their abortions. She was a hypocrite to try and take that option away from other women.

[quote]NO!!!!!!!!

Yep.

Cross our heart.

True story: The dress pattern of her brassiere was used to solve many problems in the construction of the Golden Gate bridge.

Missed the fucking segment by a goddamn day.

They've could have cut ten seconds off the Lena Horne tribute.

Howard Hughes did design a bra for her for The Outlaw. It wasn't nearly as big of a deal as history made it out to be, though. They just needed one that would not show in the photos and Hughes made some suggestions for a strapless thingie. And all those legendary photos from The Outlaw were much sexier than the actual movie.%0D %0D Jane was a good gal and a great gay supporter. The posters here are dimwitted morons (as usual) and don't know what they are talking about.

[quote]True story: The dress pattern of her brassiere was used to solve many problems in the construction of the Golden Gate bridge.%0D %0D %0D She was 12 years old when they designed the bridge.

r64, remember Lena Horne actually did accomplish things for people. Fuck Jane Russell.

Howard Hughes did design a bra for her for "The Outlaw," but she said she didn't like it so she wore her own bra and just pushed the shoulder straps down so they didn't show. The idea that he designed a special bra got them a lot of publicity for the film.

Did Jane do her own singing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?

The only thing Lena Horne did for anybody else was steal the true trailblazer title from Ethel Waters. It was all about Lena, all the time.

[quote]remember Lena Horne actually did accomplish things for people%0D %0D Lena was a founder of LCCO-New York and served on the board for years. She did so much for the gay community by promoting LCCO-New York.

Ain't there anyone here for love

r69%0D %0D Yep.

Her gay icon staus is completely based on her characterization in GPB. How could any gay guy not love the woman she playes in that film? And readily believe that Jane was Dorothy?

Jane reached the breaking point over the exploitation of her generous bosom when she appeared in THE FRENCH LINE, a 3-D movie whose poster art promised "Jane Russell in 3-D: It'll Knock BOTH Your Eyes Out!"

About the gayest thing in mainstream cinema.

Any links to her being involved in gay rights? Something besides a photo of her at an Oscar party like r60 provided.

I think that's Ed Fury, R51. He is definitely one of the athletes in this scene. Jane Russell's brother is also one of the guys. I think he's the one she winks at while ducking under the barbell as he raises and lowers it.

It's wonderful the way the scene in GPB with the boys by the pool begins with Jane exclaiming in disbelief, "The whole TEAM???" in a way that implies they have just told her they have to stay celibate while in training.

Didn't the Legion of Decency ban "The French Line"? Russell wore a little cut-out outfit that barely covered her tits, and I heard you could practically see her pussy lips.

so who had the bigger bust: Jane or Marilyn?

R79, is that really what is being implied?

And of course Jane and her gymnasts in GPB inspired this classic movie musical number:

lots of hot guys in swimsuits at R76

Already been posted several times in thie thread R83.

R81: Jane stuffed her 18 hour bra. Watch any of the clips -- she's big, but has NO cleavage.

she was hot, loved her in The Outlaw.

R70, Ethel was the caboose.

Interesting comment at YouTube about the swimming pool scene:

"The gay subtext is massive; note how none of the guys are remotely interested in her. The homoeroticism screams out at us"

R60, check out her quote at r56.

I wonder if any of the hotties from that scene are still alive?

This old Jew could act circles around that bigot!

You never know it by Jane's iconic sultry pose in the hay on the posters, but THE OUTLAW is an almost laughably homo-erotic film. The relationship between Doc Holiday and Billy the Kid is the movie's real love story. Jane is thrown into it the middle of things just to put people off the scent.

"The relationship between Doc Holiday and Billy the Kid is the movie's real love story."

What happens between them in the movie?

Terry Moore REALLY, REALLY wanted to have her pic taken @R60.

Was she on the DL 2011 death list?

I always thought she was at her absolute peak in MACAO:

Since there appear to be a lot of newbies here who haven't seen GPB a thousand times I'd like to point out a little trivia. %0D %0D As you can see from the surprised look on her face, Jane only accidentally got pushed into the pool at the end of Ain't There Anyone Here for Love? But it was so cute, it was left in the final cut.%0D %0D If it had been planned, she would surely have been wearing a white halter top.

Jane was against abortion and pro-adoption, I never read that she was against abortion RIGHTS. That is, access to safe & legal abortions. %0D %0D I'd think there would be far more lesbian speculation on this thread since Jane was butcher than John Wayne and swaggered more than Robert Mitchum. There have been rumors and blind items about Jane on the road way back, starlets and show girls...hmmmm.%0D %0D R71, could Jane have chaired LCCO-Southern California?

Jane's big charity was WAIF standing for World Adoption International Federation.%0D %0D I can always remember seeing photos in movie magazines of their parties and benefit shows as a kid. Debbie Reynolds was also a big proponent of that organization.

Yes R99. I remember an old People Magazine article, from the late 70's, about Jane getting arrested from DWI. Her car (a small Mercedes) license plate was WAIF.

Big, square-jawed women attract bi-sexual men. Bi-sexual men are gay, and that's what makes the big gals homophobic.

[quote]As you can see from the surprised look on her face, Jane only accidentally got pushed into the pool at the end of Ain't There Anyone Here for Love? But it was so cute, it was left in the final cut.%0D %0D Even more trivia. The guy who knocked her into the pool was the hairy chested one with the barbell who just happened to be the current boyfriend of choreographer Jack Cole. He was off the set by the time they refilmed the ending.%0D %0D And the film was supposed to be in 3-D.%0D %0D

Which one of you is this?

[quote]As you can see from the surprised look on her face, Jane only accidentally got pushed into the pool

Actually, when she was knocked in by accident she was crouched over and hiding her face. The film cuts to a separate shot with her looking astonished as she emerges from the pool. That was acting. They filmed it separately after they decided to keep the accident in the number.

That poor kid at r103. Oh, oh, that poor thing.

She was not a nice lady if your were gay or lesbian.

That's ridiculous, r106, Jane loved lesbians.

I don't believe for a minute it was an accident. In movies, if you're at the edge of a swimming pool, you're going to fall in.

Thanks for the info, R102. So the guy with the barbell was gay? What about the other guys in the sequence?

If it wasn't for the last minute after-thought of adding a black stripe to the bottoms of those swimming trunks, the boys in Ain't There Anyone... would look completely nude!

The only correction I would make to you R60 is that MOST of the people at DL, not some, do not know what they are talking about!

True, R110. Those tan bathing suits almost make them look nude from certain angles.

And it's amazing how many shots of male bums there are in that scene.

Does anyone know anything of Elliot Reid who played the private eye hired to get the goods on Lorelei but ends up falling in love with Dorothy? I thought he was a great match with Jane even though he's obviously rather bookish and nerdy in the film.%0D %0D Did he ever make any other big films? He seems to have kind of disappeared after Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.%0D %0D Was he (gasp!) gay? Was there some scandal?

He seems to still be alive. The last surviving major member of the cast?

How tall was Jane Russell? She looks huge compared to Marilyn Monroe.

5' 7" is not huge.

I thought Marilyn was 5' 5". Someone lied.

r113, Elliott Reid did an episode of I Love Lucy, where he played a knock-off of Edward R. Murrow.

Elliot Reid's ILL appearance was around the same time as GPB. He's still alive and yet he's done nothing of note in the last 55 years!?! %0D %0D I think I remember him as a part of the ensemble cast of the US version of That Was the Week That Was but my aged memory may be playing tricks on me.%0D %0D He always seemed to me like Carleton Carpenter and Tommy Noonan, 50s character actors who never played effeminate roles yet pinged to high heaven. This is based on almost no evidence.

R116, 5'7 is above average height for a woman, even more so 50 years ago

The black stripe at the bottom of the swimsuits only makes them naughtier. It looks like somebody pulled them down.%0D %0D Yowza.

Here she is doing a shiteous Ladies Who Lunch with Dinah Shore. Was she this bad on Broadway?

How did they get away with all those nearly naked guys in those tight swimsuits showing off their bums?

Speaking of shiteous, wtf is that epileptic website about? HATE the buffering bullshit.

Jack Cole said that, next to Marilyn, she looked like an "iceman in drag." %0D %0D I don't think that was a compliment.

Yes the fall into the pool was unplanned, but then used in the film with the ending reset to in the water.

I like GPB - especially when they are trying to get the film roll away from Elliott and Jane says matter of factly: "If between the two of us we can't get his pants off, we're not worthy of the name 'woman.'"

[quote] THE OUTLAW is an almost laughably homo-erotic film. The relationship between Doc Holiday and Billy the Kid is the movie's real love story. %0D %0D So true. They are not even the least bit subtle about it. In fact, the whole plot basically revolves around them being in love and jealousy.%0D %0D %0D And the link at R60 is not an "oscar party", it's clearly an AIDS event that Jane attended and was a great supporter of.

Is the little boy who played Henry Spofford III still with us? Sorry, I don't know his real name.

R127, read the caption:

"Terry Moore and Jane Russell during 13th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party Co-hosted by Chopard - Red Carpet at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, United States."

Not everyone who attends that big name Oscar party does so because they're pro gay, but rather because they want to be where the cameras are. Also, there have been quotes from her that sound anti-gay. That's why I asked if there was any OTHER information to "prove" she was pro gay like R60 claims.

He's not a main cast member, but Robert Nichols is apparently still with us. He was Evans, seen at the front of the group of athletes when we first see them get on the ship:

[quote]there have been quotes from her that sound anti-gay. %0D %0D What are the quotes that sound anti-gay to you? I seriously doubt you'll come up with anything very convincing. It appears that you've got a vivid imagination.

Robert Mitchum on MACAO, which was directed by Josef Von Sternberg, at least until Howard Hughes fired him:%0D %0D %0D "Joe was really something. He told me, "We both know this is a piece of shit and we're saddled with Jane Russell. You and I know she has as much talent as this cigarette case." I replied, "Mr. von Sternberg, Miss Russell survives, so she must have something. Lots of ladies have big tits."%0D %0D

Henry Spofford III = George "Foghorn" Winslow%0D %0D From IMDB:%0D %0D "With age came a certain awkwardness and a sign of the times. As happens to many child actors, George was not able to transition his lovable persona into an adult career -- not even close. By the age of 12, he had not only lost his appeal and naturalness before the camera, but his trademark basso profundo voice. He officially retired from show business before reaching his teens.%0D %0D George reverted back to his real name of Wentzlaff. After enlisting for four years in the Navy, George took a course in photography upon his discharge and developed a strong interest in making it his profession. He also worked for the Sonoma County Council on Aging in California. Unmarried to this day, he has since completely shunned the limelight."%0D

I thought Jane Russell was cool. She wore the same dress for the Oscars for several years, saying that it was a great dress and she saw no reason to get a new one every year!%0D I think she was also an animal lover and worked for animal causes.%0D She will be missed.

R132, that was funny. It was always odd when Mitchum and Russell did a pic together as lovers, because they looked like brother and sister twins.

Another Mitchum-Russell tale, this time borrowed from the Self-styled Siren blog:%0D %0D "But as biographer Lee Server told it, Mitchum, as much as anyone, had boundless appreciation for the things--many more than two, thank you--that made Russell such fun.%0D %0D He loved to tell the one about the pestering reporter who couldn't believe a girl with her 'image' read the Bible and went to church each Sunday. 'Hey buddy,' she told him, 'Christians have big breasts, too.'"%0D %0D %0D %0D

I too thought she was cool. This "what has she/he done for the gays?" response to anyone famous is getting tedious. It's an absurd attitude and not unlike the black community celebrating O.J. Simpson's acquittal because they hated L.A. cops (as do I!) and he was black. It's asinine to attack someone for what they don't do. Plenty of DL favorites have said or done nothing to advance gay rights. And I would bet most people here have never been in a gay rights parade/rally/protest. And those of you in California should never criticize anyone for not being politically involved in gay rights.

It saddens me that legends like Jane Russell die. It%E2%80%99s ironic that Jane Russell died on the evening of the Oscars? Or the day after the Oscars and ding-dong Anne Hathaway made a statement that this is now the young Oscars. Please! I would take the the Golden era of Hollywood over these major losers any day. The younger generations are running Hollywood into the ground with pure dullness and personalities that are exciting as a blank wall.Jane Russell is one of the last major legends in Hollywood that played a role in making Hollywood exciting. The one poster on this thread who stated DL doesn't know what they are talking about, I agree.

Jane Russell's image of the Outlaw was a huge jaw dropper when it came out in the movie theaters. For the 1940%E2%80%99s, this film brought up the level of sexual intensity, lust, and sexual innuendo to a very, very high point. It was one of the films like no other that came before it.

My mother grew up in a small town most everyone in the town knew each other. When she was a little girl, she went to the local movie theater to see the Outlaw. She went up to the ticked lady who was a well known devote Catholic, and when the lady at the ticket booth sold a ticket to my mother, she shook her finger at my mother like saying shame on you young lady. My mother felt a little bad, but proceeded on and ignored the lady, LOL. In those days when movies came out to all of the towns, it took a couple of years or more to make its debut. But, again, my mother side that movie was a hoper of a jaw dropper to the average moviegoer back then. She thought Gregory Peck was extremely handsome and he always had sex appeal.

Jane Russell once said that bra that Howard Hughes designed for her, for The Outlaw, was very painful and it was horribly made.

Jane Russell%E2%80%99s mother was a minister. Jane Russell's beliefs I think were a bit goofy because it seems like she was sort of wishy washy and not really solid. However, I remember she was interviewed on Jim and Tammy Faye Baker's program. They said something and I forgot, and she said, the bible speaks of though shall not judge only God is the judge. Also, she did not believe in religion and had she once said that she disliked religion, and did not like religion. She said, she only followed the bible. I have heard that Jane Russell%E2%80%99s personality was street smart who didn%E2%80%99t take any BS. Also, she was a really strong woman in the positive sense not in a bitchy way. Anne Hathaway

R122, She was awful on Broadway.

[quote]In those days when movies came out to all of the towns, it took a couple of years or more to make its debut.

Yeah, the good ole days when you had horse drawn carrages and no running water and no telephone. That's why shit movies and movie "stars" back then were popular... people didn't have anything else. It was either the movies or another game of bridge.

Did I not read somewhere that Howard Hughes had a thing/fling with the guy who played the "Outlaw?" The actor didn't really have much of a career regardless of the big publicity/tits plugging the picture.%0D %0D Something about Howard keeping the guy under contract and not allowing him to accept other acting offers from other studios. Also keeping him as a side piece. Some stories about HH being actively BI are making the rounds lately.%0D %0D He had Jane under contract for years and years too.

The guy's name was Jack Beutel. Here is a pic of him with Jane.

Wow! R142, he is gorgeous. Was he gay?

This is R138. So sorry but I made some errors in my post:

But, again, my mother side that movie was a hoper of a jaw dropper to the average moviegoer back then...

This should have been;

But, again, my mother said that movie was a whopper of a jaw dropper to the average moviegoer back then...

R140, you are a major exaggerator. People back then interacted with each other much more verses sitting in front of a computer screen or TV screen. They walked more and got involved in activities with the community. That was before TV came out, and they listened to various programs on the radio, which challenged their imaginations. There was a lot of book reading back then. Again, people had a lot of imaginations, and were creative with their free time verses living in an age in which microchips do all of the thinking for people. When my mother went to school back then it was amazing the extent that she was taught in grammar school through high school alone. This was in a public school system. In fact, she and those that were educated in basic education from her era know a lot more than the average college student of today. Another thing, they did not have negative memories but happy ones and many of them loved life back then. Life was simple yet rewarding.

"It's ironic that Jane Russell died on the evening of the Oscars?"%0D %0D No, she thought it was a shitty show.

On the one hand I appreciate your spirited defense of Old Hollywood, R138. But when you talk about how much better the movies were then, you shouldn't cite THE OUTLAW as an example. It was a dull, silly film with a notorious poster, nothing more.

Legend, great one- huh?%0D %0D She was a starlet- big boobs, one moderately scandalous part that had nothing to do with talent and the good luck to be in a campy movie with Marilyn Monroe. Other than that, minimal talent and big boobs and a string of B westerns. %0D %0D And I gather she was also a bit of a religion fruitcake too- did lots of dinner theatre and memory shows in Vegas and Palm Springs. %0D %0D %0D %0D

Jane used to be on the re-union and tribute shows on Larry King when they would talk about Marilyn Monroe or other deceased celebrities.

While Jane might not be termed "legendary" can't we all agree that her image and persona were an iconic part of Hollywood history? Her poster pin-up from The Outlaw and a few of her numbers from GPB are a major part of Hollywood history. Sometimes, that's all it takes for an icon.

I agree R149. She's in cement at Grauman's and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She managed to hold her own in scenes with Mitchum, Bob Hope, etc. Most actors disappeared when they played opposite Marilyn Monroe, but Rusell didn't. It would be crazy to say that she was a major talent, but it's just as crazy to pretend that she didn't have something.

She dominated the screen in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

Its amazing that there is judgment placed on Jane Russell in which various people are conveying that she really didn't do anything when we live in a day in age in which some scatter brain bimbo slut like Pairs Hilton truly didn't do 0, but who is famous because she was born rich and she was photographed pantie-less.

R149, you hit the nail on the head. I love classic films immensely, and I grew up watching them on TV. I was dazzled by them because they were true magic and they were films that aloud one to escape and let the viewer's imagination run wild. The sets were beautiful, the costumes were gorgeous, the clothes were glamorous and the productions as a whole were sumptuous and a feast for the eye. I have noticed many on this thread can't grasp the jest what Jane Russell did which was make Hollywood history. I think those of us on this thread who understand Jane Russell's place in Hollywood film, are perfectly aware that the woman wasn't a method actress and she wasn't an actors actor. She was a movie star and an entertainer.

Her role in the Outlaw took sexuality in film up a level by pushing the boundaries a little further than most films that debut before. Also aside from this, she had a likable presence in later films. She always came off as a street smart no BS broad who couldn%E2%80%99t be bamboozled.

"they were films that aloud one to escape"

Oh, dear.

Has anone ever seen DOUBLE TROUBLE, the bomb she made with Groucho Marx and the then-has-been Frank Sinatra?%0D %0D The only thing good about THE FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN is the title.

Isn't it about time someone posted one or two of her appearances as The Mystery Guest on What's My Line?%0D %0D Va-va-va-Voom!

A bit of a stinky trout who couldn't act, dance or sing. A woman known for one thing...tits, and now her fundie views on women's rights. A sad caricature really...along the lines of Divine.

Good riddance trout.

"it's just as crazy to pretend that she didn't have something"%0D %0D Yeah, machismo!

"couldn't act, dance or sing."

She did all of those just great in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

[quote]She dominated the screen in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

No.

"A bit of a stinky trout" R158, that is your own body odor.

"Good riddance trout" that what many of us think of you! R158.

"couldn't act, dance or sing. A woman known for one thing...tits"

Well that sums up a huge percentage of your beloved Bimbo actresses you think deserve the title "star" and be elevated on a pedestal for praise by the masses for acting average and boring! How is your Paris Hilton and Britney Spears fan club going?

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but R157 abuses the privilege. %0D

Yes, R160.

Reply 117

"I thought Marilyn was 5' 5". Someone lied."

Marilyn was not 5' 5". Her autopsy report has her listed at 5' 6 1/2".

Did she really buy a baby from those psycho Irish Magadalene nuns?

R165 Did you just watch Philomania?

There is no way in hell MM was 5' 6 1/2. Please, Mary.

Uno Palumo Blanca

I'm just a bird in the sky

I heard she was, you know in that WAY before she died.

She was a recovering alcoholic who had gone into rehab at the age of 79, and described herself in a 2003 interview as, "These days, I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist"

Liar.

Massive mammeries

Huge honkers

Titanic titties

Gigantic jugs

Palatial Pontoons

Bodacious Boobies

Humongous Hooters

Gargantuan Gazongas

Towering Ta-ta's

I loved her in the Paleface movies with Bob

I saw this thread and thought "Again? Well, it couldn't happen to a nicer gal."

She had a role playing character "Rose Hollister" in 3 episodes of the show "The Yellow Rose" in 1984.

Her mysterious character appears suddenly and the audience discovers she is the long missing sister of the show's wealthy villain, Chuck Connors.

We learned that when she was young, she gave birth to a son fathered by the now dead Wade Champion, who had started out poor and eventually built the ranch which he called "The Yellow Rose". That now grown son, whose name is Chance McKenzie, played by Sam Elliott, shows up at the ranch in the first episode and does not know the circumstances of his birth but hated his father who he believed abandoned him.

Rose (Jane Russell) returns when she hears Chance has come to the ranch and at their first meeting in a bar, she does not tell him who she is. Eventually she seeks him out to tell him that his father had kidnapped him from her when he was a baby (she hated him for doing it) and hid him from her to protect the baby from his evil uncle Jeb Hollister, her brother, Chuck Connors..

Just as Chance realizes the truth in what she says, the pair come under gunfire out on the range from an assassin hired by Chuck Connors because he knows that if Rose has returned it is to have her revenge on her brother for his threat and to protect her son.

The pair take cover in a cave as bullets ricochet around them.

At this point, to Chance's surprise, Jane pulls a gun out of her boot and pushes him out of the way, ready to take on the gunman to protect her son.

At Chance's surprise, Jane looks at him and she says, deadly serious

[quote] "Every Rose has a thorn."

Loved that scene now and still do. Great casting.

There is a clip of the first meeting in the bar shown in this interview Russell did in 1984 with Bryant Gumbel.

Thanks for that clip, R176. Nice to see her again.

awwweeee, I'll miss her and light a candle at church on Sunday

"Thanks for the mammaries..."