Jane Russell - Biography - IMDb Jane Russell Biography Showing all 75 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (37) | Personal Quotes (23) | Salary (2) Overview (5) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (2) Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in Canada, but moved to California when he found employment there. The family was well-to-do and although Jane was the only girl among four brothers, her mother saw to it that she took piano lessons. In addition to music, Jane was interested in drama much as her mother had been and participated in high school stage productions. Upon graduation, Jane took a job as a receptionist for a doctor who specialized in foot disorders.

Although she had originally planned on being a designer, her father died and she had to go to work to help the family. Jane modeled on the side and was very much sought-after especially because of her figure. She managed to save enough money to go to drama school, with the urging of her mother. She was ultimately signed by Howard Hughes for his production of The Outlaw (1943) in 1941, the film that was to make Jane famous. The film was not a classic by any means, but was geared to show off Jane's ample physical assets. Although the film was made in 1941, it was not released until two years later and then only on a limited basis due to the way the film portrayed Jane's assets. It was hard for the flick to pass the censorship board. Finally, the film gained general release in 1946. The film was a smash at the box-office. Jane did not make another film until 1946 when she played Joan Kenwood in Young Widow (1946). She had signed a seven year contract with Hughes and it seemed the only films he would put her in were those that displayed Jane in a very flattering light due to her body.

Films such as His Kind of Woman (1951) and The Las Vegas Story (1952) did nothing to showcase her true acting abilities. Probably the pinnacle of her career was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as Dorothy Shaw, with Marilyn Monroe . This film showed Jane's comedic side very well. Jane did continue to make films throughout the 1950s, but the films were at times not up to par, particularly with Jane's talents being wasted in forgettable movies in order to show off her sexy side. Films such as Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) did do Jane justice and were able to show exactly the fine actress she was. After The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) (a flop), Jane took a hiatus from films, to dabble a little in television, returning in 1964 to film Fate Is the Hunter (1964). Unfortunately, the roles were not there anymore as Jane appeared in only four pictures during the entire decade of the 1960s.

Her last film of the decade was The Born Losers (1967). After three more years away from the big screen, she returned to make one last film called Darker Than Amber (1970). Her last play before the public was in the 1970s when Jane was a spokesperson for Playtex bras. Had Jane not been wasted during the Hughes years, she could have been a bigger actress than what she was allowed to show. Jane Russell died at age 89 of respiratory failure on February 28, 2011 in Santa Maria, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson Jane's first interest was in dress designing but on leaving high school she enrolled for a term at Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop which changed her mind about being a dress designer. Later she signed for 6 months with Madame Ouspenskaya (an actress and coach) who fired her dramatic ambition. Although studying she needed to earn some money so she became a doctor's receptionist and also modeled for photographers and advertising agencies. It was her photograph hanging on an office wall that attracted the attention of a scout for Howard Hughes .

Within 24 hours an agent signed her up and soon after she left for Arizona to start work on 'The Outlaw'. After the film was finished it was held up for some time by the Board of Censors. During that time she lived quietly at home waiting to see what would happen when the film was released. - IMDb Mini Biography By: tonyman5 Spouse (3) Trivia (37) Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1989. Howard Hughes , in addition to designing airplanes, is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of her physical endowments. She and husband Bob Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy Waterfield, on February 15, 1952. She and husband Bob Waterfield adopted a 15-month-old British boy, Tommy Kavanaugh, in December 1952. First husband Bob Waterfield was her high school sweetheart. Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families. Her breasts are the namesake for "The Jane Russell Peaks" in Alaska.

Russell filed for divorce from Bob Waterfield on February 2, 1967. Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell". Attended Van Nuys High School with James Dougherty , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe 's first husband. Married John Calvin Peoples in a "kaftan" ceremony in Santa Barbara, California. A born-again Christian decades before the term was coined, she held weekly Bible study at her home which was attended by some of the industry's biggest names. Unable to bear children, Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States. Howard Hughes is reported to have said of her stardom, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough." (Source: quoted in the book "The Humour of Sex" by Robert Hale). Her three adopted children are Tracy Waterfield, Thomas Waterfield and Buck Waterfield . Attended the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.

Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) in order to find up close and personal what Howard Hughes was really like. In 2006 (at age 84), she put together a musical show entitled "The Swinging Forties" that played twice a month at the Radisson Hotel. The show featured herself and about a dozen local Santa Maria (CA) residents, including a choir director, lay preacher and retired police officer. She formed the show out of boredom and because there was nothing much going on in town for the older folks to do. The troops in Korea named two embattled hills in her honor. A political conservative, she sided publicly with an industry panel that urged the removal of certain provocative scenes in one of her films. Had macular degeneration and wore hearing aids in both ears until her death. Retired to Santa Maria, CA, after the death of her third husband in 1999 to be close to her youngest son. In the late 1930s she was a member of Max Reinhardt 's Theatrical Workshop and attended Maria Ouspenskaya 's Drama School for six months. Jane was a tomboy as a little girl.

She had four younger brothers: Tom, Kenny, James H. Russell and Wally Russell . Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004). A longtime pro-life activist, she opposed the use of abortion in any circumstance including rape or incest. She was a member of America's Future. Had been a vocal supporter of the Iraq War since its beginning in March 2003. Has a street named after her in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1942 she had an affair with John Payne . The affair is detailed in her 1986 autobiography, "My Path and My Detours". It ended when Jane realized that she was still in love with her high school sweetheart, football player Bob Waterfield , whom she married in April 1943 (they divorced in 1967). Although rumors circulated that she was buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery, she was in fact cremated at Santa Barbara Cemetery and her ashes were scattered at sea. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6850 Hollywood Blvd. on February 8, 1960.

She passed away on February 28, 2011, four months away from what would have been her 90th birthday on June 21. One month after her death, another screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died at age 79. Her brother James H. Russell had a small part in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). She confesses in her biography that, unable to have children with her husband by the natural way, they adopted a British boy, but that brought them some problems with the British authorities. They eventually obtained American citizenship for him. She and Raoul Walsh remained friends until his death in 1980. Personal Quotes (23) Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw (1943). And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did. They held up The Outlaw (1943) for five years.

And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pick up the pails. They were not shooting the pails. The girl with the summer-hot lips . . . and the winter-cold heart. The music these kids play nowadays, it's nothing but screaming and pounding drums! You can't hear the words, and that's just as well, because the words stink! [what she thinks of Hollywood liberals George Clooney , Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn I think they're not well. [why modern Hollywood is so liberal] I think the '60s have happened between when I was there and now. A lot of the actors and actresses, their parents were '60s people and they just have a Democratic left wing--they flipped. I have always been a Republican, and when I was in Hollywood long ago, most of the people there were Republican.

The studio heads were all Republican, my boss Howard Hughes was a raving Republican, and we had a motion picture code in those days so they couldn't do all this naughty stuff. We had John Wayne , we had Charlton Heston , we had man named Ronald Reagan , we had Robert Mitchum , James Stewart , Clark Gable . My son said, "Mother you can't say the word bigot because that has to do with nationalities and things." I said, "No darling, it's a verb. It means I can't stand these people who are trying to take the Ten Commandments off the wall, take prayer out of school and take prayer out of football games." It's too ridiculous. The Lord put this country together or we wouldn't be like we are. [in 2003] These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death.

[what happened when she found herself pregnant at age 18] The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said, "What butcher did this to you?". I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've never known pain like it. [in 2001] I want to save America. I do not want a one-world order, a one-world government, at all. I think that our Founding Fathers had exactly the right idea, and we've got a great country, and let's go back to God. I've been working a lot to get the Bible back in schools because I think a great deal of our loss of wisdom as a society results from the fact that a lot of children have never read the Bible. I've been helping Elizabeth Ridenour [of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools] get the Bible back in school by going on television shows for her. She's gotten it into 38 states and 117 school districts, and as a result of this effort 60,000 children have now been able to read the Bible.

I liked Condoleezza Rice . And Ann Coulter was great. She was so strong and forceful. But people kept asking me, "You're from Hollywood. Why are you here?". I very much wanted to tell them, as a whole group, that in my day Hollywood was Republican. All the heads of the studios were Republicans, and we were fighting communism. You had John Wayne and Charlton Heston and myself and Bob Mitchum, and President Ronald Reagan came right out of that same group. There were a few Democrats in Hollywood, but we thought they were crazy. Music has gone just as bananas as the movies. But kids are learning swing and going back to the music of the '40s. There's a swing club near my home in Santa Barbara, and the kids are fantastic. There's no drinking, no smoking, just dancing all night long. My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited, narrow-minded, right-wing, conservative Christian. I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

[2000] I can't tell you how distressed I've been during the past seven years of the [ Bill Clinton ] Administration, with one cheap and tawdry scandal erupting after another. And I thought Hollywood was bad! I was particularly disgusted by the radical feminists who tried to excuse the President's misbehavior, even as the testimony of his victims accumulated and it turned out that they weren't all "little girls from Little Rock". Apparently the poor soul doesn't know any better and just can't say no. It's been a terrible example for our young people. Even worse than the debasement of the office of the presidency and of greater concern is the damage that's been done to our national security by the Clinton Administration's lax policies and by its deliberate transfer of sensitive missile technology to China while at the same time accepting campaign contributions from that foreign power. Instead of looking forward to a century of peace at the beginning of the new millennium, we now face the very real prospect of World War III. Our military readiness has dropped fifty percent since Clinton took office and our soldiers are frantic. It was always an accident; I wish I could take some of the credit.

My mother used to say, "You have a path from heaven and if you fall off of it, it'll be a problem, Jane." It was always the case where no matter what way I wanted to go, the Lord wanted me to go this way. I really think the 1940s were the best generation for Hollywood. Everybody was patriotic then. Nobody was talking the way they do now, against the soldiers. It was a different era, a different Hollywood then, and we respected our country, our leaders and our fighting men. Sure, I'll admit, I'm a mean-spirited, politically conservative old actress. I'm not bigoted against any race, just those idiots who want to spit on our soldiers' hard work or remove the Ten Commandments from our schools and courtroom walls. [on her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe ] She once got her life so balled up that the studio hired a full-time secretary maid for her. So Marilyn soon got the secretary as balled up as she was, and she ended up waiting on the secretary, instead of vice-versa. [on her sex appeal] Sex appeal is good--but not in bad taste.

Then it's ugly. I don't think a star has any business posing in a vulgar way. I've seen plenty of pin-up pictures that have sex appeal, interest and allure, but they're not vulgar. They have little art in them. [ Marilyn Monroe 's calendar was artistic. Salary (2) Jane Russell, Voluptuous Star of Westerns, Dies at 89 - The New York Times The New York Times Movies |Jane Russell, Sultry Star of 1940s and ’50s, Dies at 89 Search Continue reading the main story Jane Russell , the voluptuous actress at the center of one of the most highly publicized censorship episodes in movie history, the long-delayed release of the 1940s western “ The Outlaw ,” died on Monday at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. She was 89. The cause was a respiratory-related illness, her daughter-in-law, Etta Waterfield, said. Ms.

Russell was 19 and working in a doctor’s office when Howard Hughes, returning to movie production after his aviation successes, cast her as the tempestuous Rio McDonald, the object of a romantic rivalry between Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid, in “The Outlaw,” which he directed. A movie poster — which showed a sultry Ms. Russell in a cleavage-revealing blouse falling off one shoulder as she reclined in a haystack and held a gun — quickly became notorious and seemed to fuel movie censors’ determination to prevent the film’s release because of scenes that, by 1940s standards, revealed too much of the star’s breasts. The Roman Catholic Church was one of the movie’s vocal opponents. Although the film had its premiere and ran for nine weeks in San Francisco in 1943, it did not open in New York until 1947 and was not given a complete national release until 1950. Critics were generally unimpressed by its quality, but it made Ms. Russell a star. The specially engineered bra that Hughes was said to have designed for his 38D leading lady took its place in cinematic history, although Ms.

Russell always contended that she never actually wore it. She went on to make some two dozen feature films, all but a handful of them between 1948 and 1957 and many of them westerns. Photo Jane Russell made her screen debut in Howard Hughes’s 1943 film “The Outlaw.” Credit RKO, via Associated Press In the western comedy “ The Paleface ” (1948), she played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope, with whom she also starred in “ Son of Paleface ,” the 1952 sequel. In the musical comedy that she called her favorite film, “ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ” (1953), she starred with Marilyn Monroe as one of two ambitious showgirls. Her numbers included “Two Little Girls From Little Rock,” one of several duets with Monroe, and the comic lament “Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love?” Two years later she starred with Jeanne Crain in “ Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ,” a sequel of sorts, set in Paris. A number of her movies were musicals, and singing became a large part of her career.

She first appeared in Las Vegas in 1957 and was performing in musical shows at small venues as recently as 2008. Although she did considerable stage acting over the years, her sole Broadway appearance was in 1971 in the Stephen Sondheim musical “ Company ,” in which she replaced Elaine Stritch as the tough-talking character who sings “The Ladies Who Lunch.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Ms. Russell was best known in the 1970s and ’80s as the television spokeswoman in commercials for Playtex bras, which she promoted as ideal for “full-figured gals” like her. Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minn., the daughter of Roy and Geraldine Russell. Her mother had been an aspiring actress and a model. “The Girl in the Blue Hat,” a portrait of her by the watercolorist Mary B. Titcomb, once hung in the White House, bought by President Woodrow Wilson. When Jane was 9 months old, before her four brothers were born, her father moved the family to Southern California to take a job as an office manager.

He died when Jane was in her teens. After high school, Jane took acting classes at Max Reinhardt’s theater workshop and with Maria Ouspenskaya. She did some modeling for a photographer friend but was working in a chiropodist’s office when a photo of her found its way to Hughes’s casting people. Photo Jane Russell with Bob Hope. Credit Paramount Pictures, via Reuters In 1943 she married her high school sweetheart, Bob Waterfield, a U.C.L.A. football player who became the star quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams. They adopted a daughter, Tracy, and two sons, Thomas and Robert. (After a botched abortion before her marriage, Ms. Russell was unable to have children. She later became an outspoken opponent of abortion and an advocate of adoption, founding the World Adoption International Fund in the 1950s.) She and Mr. Waterfield divorced in 1967 after 24 years of marriage. The following year she married Roger Barrett, an actor, who died of a heart attack three months after the wedding.

In 1974, John Calvin Peoples, a real estate broker and retired Air Force lieutenant, became her third husband, and they were together until his death, in 1999. 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. “These days I’m a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist,” she told The Daily Mail of London in 2003. Bigotry, she added, “just means you don’t have an open mind.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story By the time she married Mr. Peoples, her acting career was all but over. After appearing in three movies in the mid-1960s, she had a small role in her last film, “ Darker Than Amber ,” a 1970 action drama starring Rod Taylor.

She did relatively little television, but her final screen role was in a 1986 episode of the NBC police drama “Hunter.” Her children survive her, as do 8 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Ms. Russell was very public about her religious convictions. She organized Bible study groups in Hollywood and wrote about having experienced speaking in tongues. In her memoir, “My Path and My Detours” (1985), she described the strength she drew from Christianity. A higher power was always there, she wrote, “telling me that if I could just hold tough a little longer, I’d find myself around one more dark corner, see one more spot of light and have one more drop of pure joy in this journey called life.” Correction: March 9, 2011 An obituary on March 1 about the actress Jane Russell misidentified the newspaper to which she gave an interview in 2003. Although the interview was reprinted in The Sunday Mail, an Australian newspaper, it originally appeared in The Daily Mail of London. The obituary also misstated part of the plot of “The Outlaw,” her first movie.

Her character, Rio McDonald, was the object of a romantic rivalry between Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid; she was not the girlfriend of Sherriff Pat Garrett, another character in the movie. A version of this article appears in print on March 1, 2011, on Page B15 of the New York edition with the headline: Jane Russell, Sultry Star of 1940s and ’50s, Dies at 89. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe Facts about Jane Russell - The Meaning Of The Name The Meaning Of The Name Toggle navigation Nationality: United States of America Occupation: Actress Height: 5 ft 6 in (170 cm) For privacy reasons, we cannot provide the meaning of this celebrity's name! Instead, please find the Numerology Interpretation for that name. The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. Interpretation: Learn more with our free Numerology Tool Which stars are celebrating their birthday today? Check our and find out celebrities born on your birthday.

Biography Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011), generally known as Jane Russell, was an American film actress, and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in 1943 with The Outlaw. In 1947 Russell delved into music before returning to films. After starring in multiple films in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career. Russell married three times, adopted three children, and in 1955 founded the World Adoption International Fund. She received several accolades for her achievements in films, including having her hand- and footprints immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The section "Biography" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article " Jane Russell "; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) . You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL. Jane Russell | Chickipedia Expert on Jane Russell? She needs your help. Add biography, facts, photos, videos along with any other details about Jane Russell, like tattoos, hook-ups or relationships. Jane Russell == Biography == Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was an US Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. DETAILS Add Jane Russell Biography Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her father was an US Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in Canada, but moved to California when he found employment there.

The family was well-to-do and although Jane was the only girl among four brothers, her mother saw to it that she took piano lessons. In addition to music, Jane was interested in drama much as her mother had been and participated in high school stage productions. Upon graduation, Jane took a job as a receptionist for a doctor who specialized in foot disorders. Although she had originally planned on being a designer, her father died and she had to go to work to help the family. Jane modeled on the side and was very much sought-after especially because of her figure. She managed to save enough money to go to drama school, with the urging of her mother. She was ultimately signed by Howard Hughes for his production of The Outlaw (1943) in 1941, the film that was to make Jane famous. The film wasn't a classic by any means, but was geared to show off Jane's ample physical assets. Although the film was made in 1941, it wasn't released until two years later and then only on a limited basis due to the way the film portrayed Jane's assets. It was hard for the flick to pass the censorship board. Finally, the film gained general release in 1946.

The film was a smash at the box-office. Jane didn't make another film until 1946 when she played Joan Kenwood in Young Widow (1946). She had signed a seven year contract with Hughes and it seemed the only films he would put her in were those that displayed Jane in a very flattering light due to her body. Films such as 1951's His Kind of Woman (1951) and The Las Vegas Story (1952) did nothing to showcase her true acting abilities. Probably the pinnacle of her career was in 1953's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as Dorothy Shaw, with Marilyn Monroe. This film showed Jane's comedic side very well. Jane did continue to make films throughout the 1950s, but the films were at times not up to par, particularly with Jane's talents being wasted in forgettable movies in order to show off her sexy side. Films such as Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) did do Jane justice and were able to show exactly the fine actress she was.

After The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) (a flop) in 1957, Jane took a hiatus from films, to dabble a bit in television, returning in 1964 to film Fate Is the Hunter (1964). Unfortunately, the roles were not there anymore as Jane appeared in only four pictures during the entire decade of the sixties. Her last film of the decade was 1967's The Born Losers (1967). After three more years away from the big screen, she returned to make one last film called Darker Than Amber (1970) in 1970. Her last play before the public was in the 1970s when Jane was a spokesperson for Playtex bras. Had Jane not been wasted during the Hughes years, she could have been a bigger actress than what she was allowed to show. She was married to Bob Waterfield, the quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, an American professional football team. Jane Russell - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Her father was a United States Army lieutenant and her mother had been a student of drama and an actress with a traveling troupe. Once Mr. Russell was mustered out of the service, the family took up residence in Canada, but moved to California when he found ... See full bio » Born: a list of 27 people created 22 Aug 2011 a list of 25 images created 13 Dec 2011 a list of 36 people created 27 May 2012 a list of 34 people created 23 Dec 2013 a list of 35 people created 11 Apr 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Jane Russell's work have you seen?

User Polls 1984 The Yellow Rose (TV Series) Rose Hollister 1960 Death Valley Days (TV Series) Mary Taylor 1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) Lili Travers Soundtrack (15 credits) 2010/I Burlesque (performer: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Swing Cats Mix)") 2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "A Little Girl from Little Rock" - uncredited) 1968 Handicap (Short) (performer: "I'm Just A Little Girl From Little Rock") 1956 The Revolt of Mamie Stover (performer: "Keep Your Eyes On The Hands") 1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (performer: "You're Driving Me Crazy", "I've Got Five Dollars", "I Wanna Be Loved by You", "Daddy", "Ain't Misbehavin'") 1953 The French Line (performer: "WELL!

I'LL BE SWITCHED", "WHAT IS THIS THAT I FEEL?", "ANY GAL FROM TEXAS", "LOOKING FOR TROUBLE" - uncredited) 1953 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (performer: "Anyone Here for Love?" (1953), "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (1949) (uncredited), "Bye Bye Baby" (1949) (uncredited)) 1952 Montana Belle (performer: "The Gilded Lily", "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892) - uncredited) 1952 Son of Paleface (performer: "Buttons and Bows", "Wing-Ding Tonight", "Am I In Love") 1952 Macao (performer: "Ocean Breeze", "You Kill Me", "One for My Baby") 1952 The Las Vegas Story (performer: "I Get Along Without You Very Well", "My Resistance Is Low") 1951 Double Dynamite ("It's Only Money", uncredited) / (performer: "Kisses and Tears" - uncredited) 1

951 His Kind of Woman (performer: "Five Little Miles From San Berdoo" - as Miss Russell) / (performer: "You'll Know") 1946 Young Widow ("These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)") Hide "The Outlaw" - Portfolio: Jane Russell - Pictures - CBS News Portfolio: Jane Russell Next "Montana Belle" One of the most memorable screen goddesses of the 1940s and '50s, actress and singer Jane Russell was promoted for her ample charms and curvaceous figure, which first graced the screen in Howard Hughes' "The Outlaw." But she also brought a torch song sultriness to her singing and a deft wit to such musical comedies as "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Left: Russell in the 1952 drama, "Montana Belle." By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan Credit: RKO Pictures Portrait Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, in Bemidji, Minn., on June 21, 1921, she took acting lessons after her family moved to California, and did some modeling.

At age 19, while she was working as a receptionist, Russell was discovered by billionaire aviator and Hollywood producer Howard Hughes, who cast her in his western film, "The Outlaw." Credit: Getty Images/John Kobal Foundation "The Outlaw" Jane Russell in a publicity photo for Howard Hughes' "The Outlaw." Russell's revealing-for-the-time attire, and her steamy scenes opposite Jack Buetel as Billy The Kid, provoked a censorship battle that delayed the wide release of "The Outlaw" for years. Credit: RKO Pictures "The Outlaw" Hughes reportedly had a brassiere designed especially for the 38D-24-36 Russell that would highlight her "physical attributes," though she denied ever wearing it. Credit: United Artists "The Outlaw" Filmed in 1941, "The Outlaw" was initially released in 1943, and opened nationally three years later (the censorship battles a key part of its publicity). Credit: United Artists Jane Russell and Jack Buetel in "The Outlaw." Credit: United Artists Actress Jane Russell tests her skill with a bow and arrow, July 25, 1941.

Credit: AP Photo "Young Widow" In 1946 Jane Russell starred in "Young Widow," a wartime drama about a woman's romantic complications after her Army Air Corps husband is killed overseas. It was the first glimpse of the actress for many in the U.S., as "The Outlaw" hadn't yet opened wide. Credit: Hunt Stromberg Productions Jane Russell as a journalist in "Young Widow" (1946). Credit: Hunt Stromberg Productions "Young Widow" An ad for "Young Widow." The film was later re-released with the more salacious title, "The Naughty Widow." Credit: Hunt Stromberg Productions An undated photo of Jane Russell. Credit: GAB Archive/Redferns Bob Waterfield and Jane Russell Cleveland Rams player Bob Waterfield with wife, actress Jane Russell, sitting on bench watching the Rams practice for their championship game with winners of the Eastern Division in Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The two, high school sweethearts, were married for 23 years before divorcing. Russell's second husband, actor Roger Barrett, died three months after they married in 1969.

Credit: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images/Allan Grant "Paleface" Jane Russell played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope as a dentist in the western comedy, "The Paleface" (1948). Credit: Paramount Pictures You missed! Jane Russell is a target in "The Paleface." Credit: Paramount Pictures "His Kind of Woman" Jane Russell starred with Vincent Price and Robert Mitchum in the 1951 film noir, "His Kind of Woman." Credit: RKO Pictures Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in "His Kind of Woman" (1951). Credit: RKO Pictures "The Las Vegas Story" Vincent Price is in some financial difficulty, and Jane Russell is his wife who becomes a tool in his plot, in the mystery, "The Las Vegas Story" (1952). Credit: RKO Pictures "Macao" Produced by Howard Hughes and directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray, "Macao" (1952) featured Jane Russell as a night club singer caught up in a nefarious plot involving stolen jewels, gangsters and murder.

Credit: RKO Pictures Jane Russell reteamed with Robert Mitchum in "Macao." Credit: RKO Pictures "Macao" Jane Russell as a nightclub singer in "Macao." In addition to her film work, Russell also performed on radio with Kay Kyser. In 1947 she recorded an album of torch songs for Columbia, "Let's Put Out the Lights," which only burnished her appeal. Credit: RKO Pictures "Son of Paleface" Jane Russell returned in the sequel to "Paleface," the 1952 comedy, "Son of Paleface," in which she faced off against Bob Hope as "The Torch," a saloon singer/head of a gang of masked bandits. Credit: Paramount Pictures "Montana Belle" Jane Russell played the outlaw Belle Starr, traveling in disguise (the blonde wig is a giveaway) in the 1952 western, "Montana Belle." Credit: RKO Pictures "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe played showgirls looking for love in all the wrong places in the sparkling musical comedy, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), based on the stage musical adapted from the Anita Loos novel.

Credit: 20th Century Fox "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe sing "When Love Goes Wrong" by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson, from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Credit: 20th Century Fox "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Actress Jane Russell poses on the set of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in Hollywood, Calif., Dec. 26, 1952. Credit: AP Photo "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell press their heel prints into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater to promote their film, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," in Los Angeles, June 26, 1953. Credit: Getty Images/Darlene Hammond/Hulton Archive "The French Line" The posters for "The French Line" (1953) shouted "J.R.

in 3D - Need we say more?" Russell refused to wear the bikini that producer Howard Hughes had designed for the film (about an heiress who switches places with a model, to find a man who's interested in more than her money - see, it's a movie), so Hughes devised a one-piece with cutaways that still managed to incense the Catholic Legion of Decency. The censors demanded, and got, cuts in Russell's dance number, "Lookin' for Trouble." Credit: RKO Pictures Jane Russell in a publicity shot for a bubble-filled scene from "The French Line." Credit: RKO Pictures "Underwater!" Jane Russell is a diver seeking sunken treasure in the shark-filled Caribbean in the adventure "Underwater!" (1955), directed by John Sturges. Credit: RKO Pictures Clark Gable and Jane Russell starred in the Raoul Walsh western, "The Tall Men" (1955).

Credit: 20th Century Fox "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain in "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955), a sequel of sorts to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," also written by Anita Loos, about showgirls who move to Paris to seek fame and fortune (and, of course, guys). Credit: 20th Century Fox Actress Jane Russell, as seen in the film, "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955). Credit: AP Photo Jane Russell is the hot-blooded gypsy in the 1956 film, "Hot Blood," costarring Cornell Wilde. Credit: Columbia Pictures "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" Jane Russell played a prostitute who tries, and fails, to make a new life for herself in Honolulu in the WWII drama, "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (1956), directed by Raoul Walsh. Credit: 20th Century Fox "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" Jane Russell on the beach in Hawaii in "The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (1956).

Credit: 20th Century Fox "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" In the comedy, "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" (1957), Ralph Meeker is one of a pair of small-time crooks who kidnap a Hollywood actress (Jane Russell) and hold her for random. Russell made rare appearances in films in the 1960s, including the westerns "Johnny Reno" and "Waco," the Mafia comedy "Cauliflower Cupids," the counter-culture mystery, "Darker Than Amber," and the first "Billy Jack" film, "The Born Losers." Credit: United Artists John Peoples and Jane Russell Actress Jane Russell poses for pictures with her third husband, real estate broker John Peoples, in Santa Barbara, Calif., Feb. 1, 1974. They remained married until his death in 1999.

Credit: AP Photo "The Las Vegas Story" Left: A portrait of Jane Russell from "The Las Vegas Story." By 1970 she left Hollywood films, but was featured on the TV series "Hunter" and "The Yellow Rose," and appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's "Company." She also formed a gospel singing group with Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, and was also active in her church and charities. In the 1970s and '80s Russell was most frequently seen in TV commercials for Playtex Bras. Russell died from respiratory failure in 2011 at her home in Santa Maria, Calif., at the age of 89. By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan Credit: RKO Pictures Jane Russell Bra Size, Measurements, Height and Weight Actress » Jane Russell Bra Size, Measurements, Height and Weight Jane Russell Bra Size, Measurements, Height and Weight by katty (Read below the latest celebrity plastic surgery news, rumors and updates! Celebrities get plastic surgery all the time and we keep you updated on what sort of surgery they have done recently!) Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was a gorgeous American actress who was knows as her professional name Jane Russell.

She was a sex symbol in Hollywood around 1940s to 1950s. This lady who died on February 28, 2011 at the aged 89 had perfect and unique figure. Some sources believed that she had 38-24-36 inches (97-61-91 cm) of her measurements. ​

Question: What was Jane Russell's real first name?
Answer: Ernestine