Jane Russell Gone at 89 ):

a sad day in the world of film

Yeah, I just saw that. The Full-Figured Gal.

Goodbye gorgeous :(

Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust…William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

Sad news. An underrated actress too, not only a good body.

Brush with fame…

I have 8 autographs:

Adam West
Candy Clark
Allen Ginsberg
Jessica Lange
Linda Blair
Dick Smith
Roger Ebert

and…Jane Russell

:(

RIP, Jane Russell. Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

haha :) great stuff

and whatever happened to Jack Buetel …?!?

She had a body like a hand-fed calf and a face like a cast-iron skillet.

On second thought, fuck you, Jane Russell:

http://www.crosswalk.com/1183926/

Hollywood Actress Declares Herself ‘Right Wing Christian Bigot’
Marc Morano
Senior Staff Writer
Email thisPrint thisDiscuss thisShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on DeliciousShare on DiggShare on StumbleUponmoreArlington, Va. \b (CNSNews.com) – Veteran Hollywood Actress Jane Russell declared herself a “mean-spirited, narrow-minded, right-wing Christian bigot” to a crowd of conservative activists on Saturday.

The retired actress was making the point that she is tired of Christian conservatives being labeled intolerant when they stand up for their beliefs.

Russell’s comments received enthusiastic applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Arlington, Va.

The 81-year-old Russell, who spoke on a panel called “Hollywood Needs Adult Supervision,” explained that her son chides her for using the term ‘bigot,’ but she insists on doing so.

“My son said, ‘Mother you can’t say the word bigot because that has to do with nationalities and things.’ I said, ‘No darling, it’s a verb. It means I can’t stand these people who are trying to take the Ten Commandments off the wall, take prayer out of school and… take prayer out of football games.’ It’s too ridiculous,” Russell said.

“The Lord put this country together or we wouldn’t be like we are,” she added.

Russell, a former pin-up girl from the 1940s and 1950s who starred in such films as “Outlaw” and 1953’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” with Marilyn Monroe, now serves as an advocate for children.

Russell noted how Hollywood’s political affiliations have changed since her heyday.

“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, [billionaire producer] 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,” Russell said.

“We had John Wayne, we had Charlton Heston, we had man named Ronald Reagan, we had [Robert] Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable,” she added.

In an interview with CNSNews.com,\b Russell explained why she believes present-day Hollywood has become so liberal.

“I think the 60’s have happened between when I was there and now. A lot of the actors and actresses, their parents were 60’s people and they just have a Democratic left wing – [they] flipped,” Russell said.

Asked what she thinks of present-day Hollywood liberals such as George Clooney, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, Russell quipped, “I think they’re not well.”

Daniel Flynn, another panelist and author of Why the Left Hates America, said celebrity activists are out of place in political activism because they confuse make-believe with reality.

“Hollywood is a place where aliens can be made to seem to invade the earth, where the dead can rise from the grave, where a 5’7 white guy from Philadelphia can become heavyweight champion of the world – that’s Hollywood, it’s make-believe stuff,” Flynn said.

According to Flynn, when celebrities delve into political matters, they “bring the fictionalized world into a world where facts matter.”

“This is why Hollywood is the way it is in regard to politics, because facts matter in our world, they don’t mix,” he added.

I was waiting for Ehrenstein’s entrance in this thread and he did not disappoint.

No, somehow his choice of clip didn’t surprise. One of her most memorable scenes, for sure. I was just thinking about David, as it happens, having seen the old man thread, and reminded of a comment about the under 50s- quite right too.

A pity about Russell’s politics. But she was right about the strength of Republicanism in Hollywood- the “commie” witch-hunt was after the exceptions not the rule- of course there have always been liberals in Hollywood, but there’s long been a myth of Hollywood being liberal. Clooney, Sarandon, Penn are among those who stand out from the crowd. It’s a money making machine. It seems Russell was stuck in the past- the 60s must have come as a shock to many Republicans- but she made her name with The Outlaw.

I don’t understand what Roscoe’s doing here, we’re criticizing an actor’s / actress’s depth and traits, not his / her political affiliations. His text is quite irrelevant to this thread. With that in mind:

She was more or less a talentless actress. Raunchy maybe but wooden, shaky and like a screeching pigeon. When I saw her in Macao, she was like a retired porn-star. For a real Actress who died almost the same time timeline as Russell, check Annie Girardot and her thread.

Yes, excellent comment you made on Girardot. Raunchy but a bit wooden may be how Russell is generally perceived; any pointers to greater acting depth, i wonder?

I just missed the chance to experience “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” at A.C.M.I. in November last year (2010). I’d still love the chance to see it on the big screen.

I don’t know much about Jane Russell, I’ll leave the biographical stuff to Dennis and others. However, ROSCOE, your vitriol aimed at the fallen actress would carry more weight if it weren’t so blatantly obvious that Hollywood IS full of lunatics of the left-wing persuasion (whatever that is nowadays). Sure, it’s full of neo-conservative whack jobs, too. But I think there’s a serious problem when the leftist Al Gore/Michael Moore/N.O.W. types who attempt to valorise abortion and yammer on about the importance of gay marriage like it’s the end of the world if it doesn’t happen do not face similar scrutiny from yourself as the right wing Christian rah-rah types for questionable beliefs.

Trust me, people like Democrat Barack Obama don’t exactly reek compassion. Democrats and Republicans both need to realise they aren’t really so different from each other. As for this Daniel Flynn fellow, somebody ought to tell his ignorant arse that those right-wing Hollywood propaganda films of the 1940s, glorifying warfare, weren’t exactly reality either! But oh yes, that’s all right, those are okay because they starred John Wayne and Clark Gable.

Daniel Flynn: since when did being “white” stop someone from becoming a heavyweight boxing champion? The current WBC world heavyweight champion at the time of this post looks a little something like this:

Also, in the films, Rocky Balboa was NOT 5’7". Maybe 5’7" is Sly’s actual height, but guess what? Sly Stallone and Rocky Balboa aren’t the same character! Who is confusing fact with fantasy now?

And someone please tell Daniel Dickhead that every single “Rocky” screenplay was written by Sly Stallone, an avid Republican.

Everything I’ve read about old Hollywood hardly paints it as the puritanical paradise Jane Russell would have had us believe it was…and Jimmy Stewart, contrary to his screen image, wasn’t always such an angel.

She lived in town here in Santa Maria, so the area papers are blowing out the story (and this is a very crap-ass conservative area)

Here she is at the Oscars a few years back.

She wasn’t a great actress but she was a durable star. A good straight man in comedy, very capable with the right musical material, and conveying an all-round sense of acting modesty.

Her politics were right-wing, like so many others in Hollywood, but she had her story. When she was young she had an abortion. It was so botched it prevented her from havign children later on. So she adopted three. She was opposed to abortion for the rest of her left, but she was a big supporter of adoption — campaigning for laws that made it easier for people to adopt. In other words she was rather different than the usual anti-abortion hysteric who couldn’t care less about children once they’re born.

The “Is There Anyone Here For Love?” number is by the great Jack Cole. It’s a dizzying hign point of Hollywood homoeroticism, slippin’ one past the goalie with sass and style.

Her politics were evidently vile, but god she was beautiful. She’s probably the only person in movies to make me look away from Marilyn Monroe. She’s terrifically appealing in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, and just in general, which makes her allegiance to the Forces Of Darkness all the more disappointing.

Yeah, she was a fairly limited actress but she used her assets to her advantage and had presence. I saw The Revolt of Mamie Stover fairly recently and it was the best I’ve seen her (not a bad film either as Pearl Harbor meets Pretty Woman plots go). She got better as she aged, I think.

Ummm….neither she nor Monroe were beautiful women. Maybe I’m in a certain minority but I find beauty in “simple” women more rather in hers and Monroe’s “assets”.

Assets and glamour don’t make beauty….they distort it. (once again, I refuse to comment on her politics because if I were to do so, then I’d say she’s all the more by supporting adoption and bashing abortion at the same time….only a lunatic would have such an opinion…)

I got her autograph when she was signing books at a mall in Tarzana.

It’s a real shame. She was a terribly attractive woman.

Never cared for her face; nice chesticles, though.

“nice chesticles, though”… yeah, and real

Roscoe watching her and Marilyn in the LIttle Rock clip, I was thinking the exact opposte