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Jane Russell

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Jane Russell Fast Facts:

Billionaire/filmmaker Howard Hughes, impressed with her physical assets, signed Russell to a seven-year film deal in 1940. Her debut, filmed in 1941 but first screened in 1943, was the movie 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 running into problems adopting foreign-born children, Russell founded the World Adoption International Fund in 1968.
Appeared on Broadway for six months in 1971, replacing Elaine Stritch in Stephen Sondheim's musical-drama 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 lead to battles with alcohol.