Happy Birthday Jane Russell!

[The Judge]

Born in Minnesota in June 1921, Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was the daughter of an Army lieutenant and a former actress. In the early 1930s, Russell's family moved to California. After Russell's father passed away in 1937, in order to help support the family she took a job as a receptionist. By 1940, Russell began to take acting classes, where she was discovered by producer Howard Hughes, who signed her to a seven-year contract. Her first film for Hughes was The Outlaw, which was filmed in 1941. The controversy surrounding the picture helped delay its release and, as a consequence, Russell's acting career. Russell didn't appear in another film until the 1946 drama Young Widow; afterward, her career took off. In the meanwhile, she married future pro-football Hall-of-Famer Bob Waterfield in 1943. After Waterfield returned from duty after World War II, he played for the Los Angeles Rams until 1952.

Russell's first film was the notorious western The Outlaw, which became known for its then-shocking display of Russell's charms rather than as a quality western film. Filmed in 1941 and directed by Howard Hawks, American censors almost immediately banned the film. It was briefly released in 1943 and again in 1946 and 1947, but The Outlaw did not gain a wide release until 1950. In some European countries, the film was banned until the early 1960s.

Although Montana Belle was originally filmed in 1948, the release of this RKO retelling of the Belle Starr story was delayed until 1952, when the film was recut and additional footage was added. This color western is not a bad film by any means and is an early showcase for Jane Russell's singing talent.

After Russell's 1957 film The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, she called a halt to her filmmaking career. By this time, she and her husband were raising three children, so Russell focused her efforts on her nightclub act and acting on the legitimage stage. In 1967, Russell and Bob Waterfield divorced, and Russell briefly resumed her acting career, appearing in four films between 1964 and 1967. She married Roger Barrett in 1968, but tragically he died just a few months after their wedding at the age of 47. Russell made only one more film, Darker than Amber, in 1970. She remarried again, this time to John Peoples, in 1974. Following her retirement from films, Russell did quite a bit of television work, including commercials for Playtex in the 1970s. Today, Russell is a widow who devotes her efforts to WAIF, an organization she began in the 1950s that helps place abandoned and orphaned children in adoptive homes.

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[jonnyblaze]

Dirty old man

[Seanie Mac]

yea happy birthday whoever yoiu are

[Kramer]

how bout this one :

Juliette Lewis

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