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Jane Russell Filmography
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Jane Russell: Her works
Russell was at the height of her wry comedic talents with her performance as Dorothy Shaw in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) opposite
Marilyn Monroe at 20th Century Fox, which is one of her most memorable roles. It was an excellent movie and showed her as a talented actress.
She appeared in two movies opposite
Robert Mitchum, His Kind of Woman (1951) and Macao (1952). Other co-stars include
Frank Sinatra and
Groucho Marx in the comedy Double Dynamite (1951);
Victor Mature,
Vincent Price and
Hoagy Carmichael in The Las Vegas Story (1952); Jeff Chandler in Foxfire (1955); and
Clark Gable in The Tall Man (1955).
Russell and her first husband, Waterfield, formed Russ-Field Productionsin 1955. They produced Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), A King and Four Queens (1956), Run for the Sun (1956) and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).
Her performances in
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, opposite
Jeanne Crain, and in the drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) displayed her fine acting ability. But after making The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957), which failed at the box-office, she did not appear on the silver screen again for seven years.
In October 1957, she debuted in a successful solo nightclub act at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. She also fulfilled later engagements in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe.
In the Summer of 1961, she debuted with a tour of
Janus in New England. In the Fall of 1961, she performed in
Skylark at the Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago. And in November 1962, she performed in
Bells are Ringing at the Westchester Town House in Yonkers, New York.
Her next movie appearance was in Fate Is the Hunter (1964), in which she was Jane Russell performing for the USO in a flashback sequence. Unfortunately, she made only four more movies after that, playing character parts in the final two.
In 1971, she starred in the musical drama
Company on Broadway, replacing Elaine Stritch. Russell performed the role of Joanne in the play for six months. Also in the 1970s, she started appearing in television commercials as a spokeswoman for Playtex "cross your heart bras for us full-figured gals."
She wrote an autobiography in 1985,
Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours. In 1989, she received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award.
Jane Russell's hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6850 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
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