Talk:Jane Russell

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File:Jane Russell in The Outlaw.jpg scheduled for POTD[edit]

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Jane Russell

Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) was an American actress, singer, and model who became one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. This publicity still, depicting Russell reclining on a bed of hay and holding a pistol, was taken by George Hurrell for her film debut in Howard Hughes's film The Outlaw (1943), which launched her career. She went on to star in more than twenty films, including opposite Marilyn Monroe in the hugely successful Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

Photograph credit: George Hurrell

Her kindness, humor, and love of astrology[edit]

As a young teen I met the then Mrs Waterfield and on occasions was invited to visit with her in her home in Orange County, California. She was always gracious and inviting, found my artwork of value, and engaged me in conversation on a range of topics. I was both aware that she had been an important star and that her husband, who I never met, was a famous football star and coach with the Rams. As neither much of a filmgoer nor particularly a football fan, I have no memory of being intimidated when in her company, just welcome and comfortable. Jane insisted we do my astrological chart and I can still remember her intensity while doing the math and her apparent depth of knowledge on the subject. This is admittedly not much of a "Hollywood" story... yet it occurred to me that it might do no harm to mention that (beyond her cinema life and fame) "Jane Russell" presented herself to a then 14 year old kid as a relaxedly welcoming and intelligent woman, and a tremendously kind and often broadly funny hostess to whose home I was always made to feel welcome, and of worth. Patricmcm (talk) 02:39, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of her says 1934[edit]

she was born in 1921, she doesn't look 13 to me in that pic. 172.77.163.48 (talk) 01:36, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]