Jane Russell RIP

[David Johnson]

Hi,
Forties/Fifties Hollywood star, Jane Russell died earlier in the week.

Made a number of raunchy (for those Hollywood days) films with the likes of Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe.


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RIP Jane

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[andy at handiwork]

I saw a recently recorded tv interview with her. Still pretty gorgeous.

[David Johnson]

Yep, as a little kid I remember seeing her in a re-run on the tele off the Outlaw, I think it was. Now she looks very interesting, I recall.

Apparently she had no" I am the big star" about her and was well thought of.

Particularly by billionaire recluse, Howard Hughes apparently.

Cheers
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[andy at handiwork]

Well he did direct one of her most famous films, The Outlaw, from which the picture in your original posting is taken.

[number 6]

True Legend. RIP.

[Alex L]

Also chief bra designer I believe, cantilever and all sorts, seemed to work rather nicely though.

[andy at handiwork]

So the story goes, though she claims she never wore it.

[David Johnson]

Apparently, Hughes brought his aircraft design skills into action in designing the bra.

Cheers
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[Alex L]

He does seem to have been multi-talented, luckily on that occasion he left the spruce at home!

[Deano!]

It's funny how as a teenager of the seventies I could never really get excited by the pin up girls of the world war two era because I knew they were all a bit older than my mum and it seemed weird at the time.

Now, however I look at Jane Russell and others like (my favourite) Rita Hayworth and I think they looked so subliminally sexual - as they had to imply everything back then due to heavy censorship. I also think the huge studio budgets of the day probably enabled the top photographers to do whatever they needed.