Biography

Childhood and adolescence

Jane Russell (born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, on June 21st 1921 with Bemidji in the Minnesota) is an American actress. She is the only girl of Roy William Russell (January 5th, 1890 – July 18th, 1937) and of Geraldine Jacobi (January 2nd, 1891 – December 26th, 1986), will follow 4 brothers: Thomas Ferris Russell (born on April 16th, 1924), Kenneth Steven Russell (born on September 2nd, 1925), James Hyatt Russell (born on February 9th, 1927) and Wallace Jay Russell (born on January 31st, 1929).

His/her two parents his born with the North Dakota and married in 1917. Three of his/her large parents were born with the Canada, whereas his/her large maternal mother was born in Germany. His/her father was lieutenant of the American army and his mother actress in a travelling troop. Whereas Jane was child, they moved temporarily in Canada, then in the valley Saint Fernando (San Fernando Valley) in California of the South. They lived in 1930 with Burbank, his/her father worked then as director of a soap manufacture.

The mother of Jane dealt with him to find piano lessons. In addition to the music she liked the theater and took part in settings in scene with the college Van Nuys High School. With its beginnings she wanted to become designer, with dead on her father, 46 years, she decided herself to work as receptionist. She made also model in the photograph, and under the insistence of his/her mother the dramatic art studied with the troop max Reinhardt to which belonged celebrates it Russian actress Maria Ouspenskaya

Career with the screen

In 1940, Jane Russell signed a seven year old contract with the millionaire Howard Hughes and made to its great beginnings in the Outlaw ( The Outlaw ) in 1943, where its sumptuous face was noticed. Although the film was made in 1941, it was diffused only two years later, for a limited public, because of the censure which found its marvellous chest a little too advantageously filmed. When the film was finally authorized, it was diffused with the general public in 1946. At this time there, the actress turned of publicities and became famous. As opposed to what regularly said the media of the time and what they say always today, during the turning of the Outlaw , Jane did not carry under clothing intended to emphasize its chest, whereas Howard Hughes had especially made some make for this film, a big first!. In its autobiography published in 1988 it affirms that throat of Howard Hughes supports it was not whole comfort and that it preferred to turn with his, falling straps.

With dimensions of Lana Turner and Rita Hayworth, Jane Russell married its sensual style better and better, benefitting from its advantageous measurements 38D-24-36 for 1m70. In spite of the thousands of mocking remarks coming from the radio, of the actors, of which Bob Hope which presented it like " the two and only Jane Russell", its photographs obscured on bottom of bundle of hay, its youth, its sensuality, its chest, its blouses and its beauty did of them one of the favorite Pin-up S of the American armed forces at the time of the Second world war

Although the Outlaw was not a spectacular Western, it had the honors of the box office. The only interest of Howard Hughes was its new recruit, the film was the window of its incredible face. She refused thereafter to play Doña Sol in bloody Arènes ( Blood and sand ) of Darryl Zanuck. She did not turn of another film until in 1946, where she played Joan Kenwood in the Slave of the memory ( Young Widow ) for RKO. Although its first films were not great help to show its play of actress, they helped to direct its career towards elegance, often the cynical one, with a familiar attitude however.

In 1947, Jane Russell tried to launch out in a musical career, it recorded individual with the orchestra of Kay Kyser: " Ace Long Ace I Live".

She played with talent of many roles, of which Calamity Jane with dimensions of Bob Hope in pale Visage ( The Pale face ) (1948) and with Mike Delroy in the pale Son of face ( Its off Paleface ) (1952), the whole under contract with the Paramount.

Jane Russell was at the top of its comic career with the role of Dorothy Shaw in the Men prefer the blondes (1953) with in particular Marilyn Monroe, with the 20th Century Fox, probably its best role. The film had and has always an enormous success and revealed it as actress of talent.

She appeared in two films with dimensions of Robert Mitchum: Finished laughing ( His kind off woman ) (1951) and the Paradise of the bad lots ( Macao ) (1952). Other large stars were with its with dimensions: Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx in the comedy a vein of… ( Double dynamite ) (1951); Victor Mature, Vincent Price and Hoagy Carmichael in Scandal in Las Vegas ( The Las Vegas story ) (1952); Jeff Chandler in gold Wall ( Foxfire ) (1955); Clark Gable and Robert Ryan in the Relentless ( The Tall man ) (1955).

Production of Howard Hughes French line ( The french line ) (1954) watch Jane Russell for one of the last time in a bathing suit a part, with a strategic cut however, from which it drew advantage by carrying out a provocative number entitled " Lookin' for Trouble". In its autobiography, Jane reveals that this bathing suit was only one alternative to the initial suggestion of Howard Hughes which was the bikini, a choice dared for a film of 1954! The actress initially affirms to have carried the bikini in front of the technicians then " horrifiés" , while feeling very stripped…

With its first husband, old quaterback with American football, Bob Waterfield, they melted Russ-Field productions in 1955. They produced the Men marry brown the ( brownish Gentlemen marry) (1955), the King and four queens ( The King and Four Queens ) (1956) with Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker, Run for the Sun (1956) and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).
Its appearances in the Men marry brown the with Jeanne Crain and in the tragedy Bungalow for women ( The Revolt off Granny Stover ) (1956) reflect in value its play of actress. However following Kidnapping out of laces ( The Fuzzy pink night gown ) (1957) which did not hold the top of the poster, it did not appear more with the screen for seven years.

In October 1957, it began a number in famous a nightclub of Las Vegas: the Sands Hotel. It signed rounds in the United States thereafter, in Canada, in Mexico, in South America and Europe.

At the summer 1961, it made its beginning in Janus. With the end of the year it occurred with Chicago with the Drury Lane Theater. In November 1962 it was with the poster of Bells Are Ringing in New York.

The film which followed was Fate Is the Hunter (1964), in which she played her own part. Only four other films will follow.

In 1971, she plays in the musical comedy Company one Broadway where she replaces Elaine Stritch.

In 1985 she writes her autobiography: Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours. In 1989 it receives Women' S International Center (WIC) Living room Legacy Award.

Its borrow feet and hands are immortalisées on the square of the Grauman' S Chinese Theater; she has in addition a star with the Hall off Famed of Hollywood, to the 6850 Hollywood Boulevard.

Renee Henderson in 2001 made a portrait of Jane Russell in the Blonde series, drawn from the news of Joyce Carol Oates.

Private life

Jane Russell had three husbands, Robert Bob Waterfield a former American football player, entered to the Hall off Famed (grooms on April 24th, 1943, divorced in July 1968), the actor Roger Barrett (grooms on August 25th, 1968, deceased on November 18th, 1968) and the real estate agent John Calvin Peoples (grooms on January 31st, 1974, deceased on August 9th, 1999). The latter lived in Sedona in Arizona.

In February 1952, the couple adopted a little girl, Tracy. In 1952 they adopted a 15 month old baby, Thomas and in 1956 it was a nine month old baby, Robert John. Jane Russell was unable to have children, in 1955 it founded International World Adoption Fund (WAIF), an organization charged to place the children in the families, which made much in the adoption of foreign children by American. In her autobiography of 1985, the actress reveals that it was pregnant with old 19 years. Followed an illegal abortion, which was so badly carried out that its life was in danger a few days. By examining it with the urgencies of the hospital, the doctor exclaimed " which butcher did that to you!? ". After these events, Jane Russell was unable to give birth to. She militated then against the abortion.

Although its image with the screen was that of a pinup, its private life did not suffer from scandals like some other actresses of this time (Lana Turner for example). In its autobiography she says to have survived two assaults with intent to commit rape, without traumatism. She also affirms that its first marriage was destroyed by suspicions of adultery (of the two with dimensions ones) and violence, that she was alcoholic as of her adolescence. Moreover it reveals the Christian religion helped it to be regenerated.

At the top of its career, Jane Russell founded the " Hollywood Christian Group " , which gathered once per week to study the bible, at it. Large celebrities went there. Jane Russell republican was engaged, it took part in the partner and the election of Eisenhower in with dimensions of Lou Costello, Dick Powell, June Allyson, Anita Louise, Louella Parsons and other conservatives.

Partial catalog of films

as an actress

See too

External bonds

  • Card IMDB: Jane Russell

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