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Jane Russell: Biography

Jane Russell

Birth Name: Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell
Birth Place: Bemidji, MN
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/21/1921, Gemini
Date of Death: 02/28/2011
Profession: Actor

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Jane Russell Fast Facts:

Billionaire filmmaker Howard Hughes, impressed with her physical assets, signed her to a seven-year film deal in 1940. Her debut, filmed in 1941 but first screened in 1943, was The Outlaw.
Most memorable role was in the 1953 musical-comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with costar Marilyn Monroe.
Unable to conceive children after a botched abortion as a teenager and having run into problems trying to adopt foreign-born children, she founded the World Adoption International Fund in 1968.
Appeared on Broadway for six months in 1971, replacing Elaine Stritch in Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Became the spokesperson for the Playtex Cross Your Heart bra in the 1970s.
Her 1985 autobiography, My Paths and Detours, divulged episodes of infidelity that doomed her first marriage and led to battles with alcohol.

Jane Russell Relationships:
Roy William Russell - Father
Geraldine Russell - Mother
Bob Waterfield - Ex-husband
Roger Barrett - Husband (deceased)
John Calvin Peoples - Husband (deceased)
Tracy Foundas - Daughter
Thomas Waterfield - Son
Robert John "Buck" Waterfield - Son
Thomas Russell - Brother
Kenneth Russell - Brother
James Russell - Brother
Wallace Russell - Brother
John Payne - Ex-significant Other

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