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Jane Russell - Hollywood superstar

The movie actress, Hollywood star of the first magnitude, Jane Russell (full name Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell) was born June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota.

The Russell family was big and amicable, the head of the family Roy William Russell served in the US Army as a senior lieutenant, his wife, mother of five children, Geraldine Jacobi was an actress. The occupation of the mother served as an impetus to the choice of the profession of Jane, who from early childhood began to join music (she learned to play the piano) and theatrical art (she attended the school drama club).

Contract with a millionaire

When Jane turned 15 years old, her father suddenly died. The mother could not support five children, so Jane had to leave the school and get a job. However, soon the financial situation of the Russell family improved, and at the insistence of her mother Jane continued to develop her artistic abilities. To do this, she went to the theater arts courses for Max Reinhardt, then she studied at the drama school of Maria Uspenskaya. In 1940, Jane met with millionaire Howard Hughes, an industrialist and part-time film producer. Hughes saw in Jane Russell, height, weight And the parameters of the figure which corresponded to the standards, significant acting potential and offered the beginning actress a contract for a period of seven years. Jane agreed, although she did not quite understand the meaning of this long contract.

The invention of Hughes

Hughes was going to create a counterweight to the recognized sex symbol of America, Hollywood superstar Rita Hayworth, in the face of Russell. And first and foremost enterprising Howard wanted to bet on Jane's femininity, her breasts and impeccable figure. However, his efforts almost ended in failure, the film "Beyond the Law" was on the verge of bans because of the excessive openness of the actress's chest. But the calculation of Hughes was justified, and Russell was worthy of competition and Rita Hayward, and other Hollywood stars of the time. In the future, Howard Hughes even invented a special bra, which emphasizes the breasts of his favorite. All the other clothes Jane was also subject to the director's desire for sexual superiority Russell over other representatives of American cinema. The actress herself was not enthusiastic about the dubious intentions of her patron, she wanted more intelligent roles.

Jane and Marilyn

In 1953, Jane Russell starred in the Howard Hawks movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." This was her first work in tandem with the main blonde in America, the inimitable Marilyn Monroe. The character Marilyn is a sweet, but extremely frivolous Loreley Lee, who is engaged to a young millionaire Gus Esmond. Of course, she does not feel love for her fiance, but she wants to become his wife for money. Father Gus sees Lorele through and in every possible way discourages his son from an ill-considered act. And Lee's girlfriend, quite decent Dorothy Shaw, played by Jane Russell, does not approve of his predator's predatory inclinations, but tries to help her out when Lorelei gets into trouble. In the end, the girls manage to get out of the difficult situation. Jane Russell's comments about Marilyn Monroe were the most flattering, she considered her a great actress of her time.

How to get married

The film "Gentlemen marry brunettes," directed by Richard Sal in 1955, is a continuation of the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." The plot is about the same: two girls, this time the sisters Bonnie and Connie Jones, variety show artists, are moving from America to Paris to achieve success there, and if lucky, then successfully marry. Marilyn Monroe did not participate in the new film, Connie Jones was played by actress Jinn Crane, and the role of Bonnie was performed by Jane Russell. Despite the fact that both films were put on the book by writer Anita Luz, the second film did not have success, the criticism was cool, the box office fees left much to be desired.

Leaving the cinema

Nevertheless, actress Jane Russell considers both films to be the same and the best for her entire career in film. In 1970, the actress left the movie, for some time she performed on the stage, and then she left the theater too. After the full completion of her artistic career, Jane turned her attention to the questions related to the adoption of adoptive children, since she was personally touched by this problem.

Personal life

Biography Jane Russell contains pages of her personal life, which can be conditionally divided into three stages, since the actress was married three times. The first husband she lived with for almost twenty-five years was Bob Waterfield, a football player. Children from Russell was not due to an unsuccessful abortion, made in his young years. Nevertheless, the actress took in her family two adopted boys and one girl. At the same time, she had to overcome many difficulties in the preparation of documents. Russell was shocked by the dominance of bureaucratic obstacles in the sphere of adoption. In 1955, the actress opened a charity bureau to help people who want to adopt a child.

Jane Russell's second husband, actor Roger Barrett, died of a heart attack a year after the wedding, it happened in 1969.

In 1974, the actress married John Kelvin Piples, who was engaged in real estate. The couple lived twenty-five years, in 1999 John Kelvin died of heart disease.

Actress Jane Russell lived almost ninety years, she died on February 28, 2011 at her home in Santa Maria, California.

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