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Jane Russell Biography

Discovered by Howard Hughes. Her breast are the namesake for "The Jane Russell Peaks" in Alaska.
 

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Distinctive Features
Her breasts
Measurements
Bust: 38" D  Waist: 25"  Hips: 36"
Friends and Family
Wally Russell [Brother] :: Jamie Russell [Brother] :: Kenny Russell [Brother] :: Tom Russell [Brother]

Trivia and Quotes

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  • "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".
  • "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".
  • Asked what she thinks of Hollywood liberals George Clooney, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn: "I think they`re not well
  • Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at eighteen: "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."
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist
    Trivia
  • As a little girl Jane was a tomboy
  • Attended the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.
  • Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell".
  • Discovered by Howard Hughes working as a receptionist for his dentist.
  • First husband Bob Waterfield was her high school sweetheart.
  • Has macular degeneration and wears hearing aids in both ears.
  • Her breasts are the namesake for `The Jane Russell Peaks` in Alaska.
  • In the early 1950s, made a television commercial for Lustre Creme`s shampoo campaign.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) in order to find up close and personal what Howard Hughes was really like.
  • Went to high school with James Dougherty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe`s first husband.
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