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Jane Russell
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, model, and singer. She was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s and starred in more than 20 films.
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entertainment · American actress, model, and singer (1921–2011) · film actor · actor · singer · model · television actor · musician · also Jane Russell, Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, Ernestine Russell, Russell
Born 21 June 1921 · Died 28 February 2011 · Q217033
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,252 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 1,113, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 11,503 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.3× the usual 1,113, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Jane Russell’s Former Creekside Idyll in Santa Barbara Just Listed for $8.25 Million
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: From the archive: Jane Russell on films, bras and the male gaze, 1985
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2011· 8 entries
At Pacific Christian Church, Santa Maria
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The Guardian: Jane Russell: Mean! Moody! Misunderstood!
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The Guardian: Jane Russell: 'An immense, impervious beauty'
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The Guardian: Jane Russell obituary
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The Guardian: Jane Russell: a life in clips
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The Guardian: Jane Russell's career in pictures
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The Guardian: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star Jane Russell dies at 89
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Died 2011-02-28.
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2009· 1 entry
Under the title Fine and Dandy, and the CD included some demo and soundtrack recordings, as well
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2008· 1 entry
In a package that also included the choral singles by the original quartet and two tracks with Fleming replacing Della Russell
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2005· 1 entry
And it includes more secular recordings, including Russell's spoken-word performances of Hollywood Riding Hood and Hollywood Cinderella backed by a jazz group that featured Terry Gibbs and Tony Scott
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Miss Jane Russell Sings”.
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2002· 2 entries
In a package that also included the Kyser singles and two songs she recorded for Columbia in 1949 that had gone unreleased at the time
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Released album “Let's Put Out the Lights”.
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2001· 1 entry
Russell was portrayed by Renee Henderson in the CBS miniseries Blonde, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Berlinale Camera (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Russell received the Women's International Center Living Legacy Award
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1971· 1 entry
Russell starred in the musical drama Company, making her debut on Broadway in the role of Joanne, succeeding Elaine Stritch
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1968· 2 entries
One month after her divorce from Waterfield, Russell married actor Roger Wyatt Barrett, whom she had met at a stock company production
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The divorce was finalized in July 1968, with Russell gaining full custody of her two eldest children and Waterfield gaining full custody of their youngest child.
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1959· 1 entry
Debuted with a tour of Janus in New England, performed in Skylark and also starred in Bells Are Ringing at the Westchester Town House in Yonkers, New York
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “Jane Russell”.
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1957· 1 entry
Russell starred in Russ-Field's last production, the romantic comedy The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, which was a box-office failure
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1956· 1 entry
Adopted a nine-month-old boy, Robert John
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1955· 3 entries
Russell founded Waif, an organization to place children with adoptive families, and which pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans
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Founded Waif, the first international adoption program
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In 1955, Russell founded Waif, an organization to place children with adoptive families, and which pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.
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1954· 2 entries
With three other members of a faith-sharing group called the Hollywood Christian Group
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“original suggestion of a bikini, a very racy choice for a movie costume in 1954. Russell said that she initially wore the bikini in front of her”
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1953· 2 entries
Russell and her first husband, former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Bob Waterfield, formed Russ-Field Productions
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Released ep “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Recorded Directly From The Sound Track Of The 20th Century-Fox Technicolor Musical)”.
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1950· 2 entries
Recorded a single, "Kisses and Tears", with Frank Sinatra and The Modernaires for Columbia
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Which would be reshot by Richard Fleischer the following year
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1947· 2 entries
Russell launched a musical career
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Russell delved into music before returning to films
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1941· 1 entry
But it was not released until 1943 in a limited release
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1940· 1 entry
Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul Howard Hughes, and made her motion-picture debut in The Outlaw (1943), a story about Billy the Kid that went to great lengths to showcase her figure
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-06-21.
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