Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, singer, and model. Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in Howard Hughes’ The Outlaw. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career.
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Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was an American actress, singer, and model. Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in Howard Hughes’ The Outlaw. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career. Russell married three times, adopted three children, and in 1955 founded Waif, the first international adoption program. 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. Russell’s measurements were 38-24-36, and she stood 5 ft 7 in, making her more statuesque than most of her contemporaries. She was a popular pin-up photo with servicemen during World War II. Her favorite co-star Bob Hope once introduced her as \”the two and only Jane Russell\”. He joked, \”Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands. Those are enough.’’ Russell did not wear the specially designed underwire bra that Howard Hughes had designed and made for her to wear during filming. According to Jane’s 1985 autobiography, she said that the bra was so uncomfortable that she secretly discarded it and wore her own bra with the cups padded with tissue and the straps pulled up to elevate her breasts. She did not appear in another movie until 1946, when she played Kenwood in Young Widow for USD, who went over budget and was a box office failure.
She also sang with the Kayyser Orchestra on radio and recorded two singles with his band, as well as a 78 rpm album that year for Columbia Records, Let’s Put Out the Lights, which included eight ballads and a ballad that included a diaphanous ball gown that included her legs. She once put more of her focus on the focus on her legs for the cover of her album Let’s put out the Lights! She also cut a 78-rpm album for Columbia that year that included an eight-ball ballad and a duet with Bob Hope called Bo-n-N-Ning! She was the eldest child and only daughter of Geraldine and Roy William Russell. Her father had been a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and her mother an actress with a road troupe; her mother was also the subject of a portrait by Mary Bradish Titcomb, Portrait oferaldine J. Russell, which received public attention when purchased by Woodrow Wilson. Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Her brothers are Thomas, Kenneth, Jamie, and Wallace. She decided to work as a receptionist after graduation. She also modeled for photographers, and, at the urging of her mother, studied drama and acting with Max Reinhardt’s Theatrical Workshop and with actress and acting coach Maria Ouspenskaya. Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind.
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