Jane Russell will be very sorely missed by film fans the world over…and I for one am truly inconsolable at the news!
It’s particularly grim coming two days after the blandest and most boring Oscar ceremony on record. The whole evening simply cried out for some grand, flamboyant star personalities to liven it up…and Jane Russell was one of the very few we had left.
in fact, her spectacular performance in THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER was worthy of an Oscar in its own right. Not all her screen work was that stellar, but I still can’t recall a single boring moment when Jane was onscreen. Jane just didn’t have it in her to be dull.
As she was known to be a devout Christian, I hope she’s now lounging provocatively on a super-size cloud designed escpecially “for us full-figure gals”. She might actually make Heaven a fun place!
What Jack Cole did to subvert the conventions of the studio musical is still astonishing.
My favorite JR moment: the end of LAS VEGAS STORY (52) when she duets with Hoagy Carmichael on “My Resistance is Low.” She was a wonderful singer, which was certainly not what anyone would have predicted at the outset of her career.
I was hoping you’d put that one up. It’s my favorite Jane number and a dizzying high point of Hollywood homoeroticism, as the certifiably insane Jack Cole slips one past the goalie with alarming ease.
Oh, I loved Jane Russell too. She seemed genuinely nice.
I don’t know if anyone else saw the recent TV programme in which Rankin, the tiresomely egocentric portrait photographer, attempted to recreate the great Hollywood glamour shots of the 40s and 50s. One of them was Jane lying in the hay in The Outlaw. Jane herself was there to offer advice, but the feeble facsimile that Rankin came up with just brought home how little true star quality there is around today.
Here I Yam Jane….Fun stuff..lol..her earings look like upside down Crosses..
All the good ones keep passing on..This old place is gonna be hardly worth living in before long..
I loved Jane. She managed to transcend her original job description of ‘ambulatory bosom’, and became a wonderful, dry comedian and fantastic singer. She was also no slouch when straight acting was called for. She seemd like the kind of gal you’d like to have a beer with, although we may have disagreed over religion. Another icon of old school Hollywood glamour gone. Sigh…
Jane dragged Frank Tashlin to church one time when he was going through one of his regular divorces and feeling miserable. It didn’t take. Still, I’m sure it helped her: she had quite a challenging life, but her attitude was always the same pragmatic, positive one we see in her characterisations.
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March 1, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Jane Russell will be very sorely missed by film fans the world over…and I for one am truly inconsolable at the news!
It’s particularly grim coming two days after the blandest and most boring Oscar ceremony on record. The whole evening simply cried out for some grand, flamboyant star personalities to liven it up…and Jane Russell was one of the very few we had left.
in fact, her spectacular performance in THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER was worthy of an Oscar in its own right. Not all her screen work was that stellar, but I still can’t recall a single boring moment when Jane was onscreen. Jane just didn’t have it in her to be dull.
As she was known to be a devout Christian, I hope she’s now lounging provocatively on a super-size cloud designed escpecially “for us full-figure gals”. She might actually make Heaven a fun place!
March 1, 2011 at 3:29 pm
What Jack Cole did to subvert the conventions of the studio musical is still astonishing.
My favorite JR moment: the end of LAS VEGAS STORY (52) when she duets with Hoagy Carmichael on “My Resistance is Low.” She was a wonderful singer, which was certainly not what anyone would have predicted at the outset of her career.
March 1, 2011 at 3:53 pm
I was hoping you’d put that one up. It’s my favorite Jane number and a dizzying high point of Hollywood homoeroticism, as the certifiably insane Jack Cole slips one past the goalie with alarming ease.
March 1, 2011 at 3:54 pm
There’s a very nice interview that she and Robert Mitchum did shortly before he passed that’s on the DVD of Macao
March 1, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Oh, I loved Jane Russell too. She seemed genuinely nice.
I don’t know if anyone else saw the recent TV programme in which Rankin, the tiresomely egocentric portrait photographer, attempted to recreate the great Hollywood glamour shots of the 40s and 50s. One of them was Jane lying in the hay in The Outlaw. Jane herself was there to offer advice, but the feeble facsimile that Rankin came up with just brought home how little true star quality there is around today.
March 1, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I don’t know why people got all bothered about Marilyn Monroe when there was Jane Russell. WOW!
March 1, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Here I Yam Jane….Fun stuff..lol..her earings look like upside down Crosses..
All the good ones keep passing on..This old place is gonna be hardly worth living in before long..
March 1, 2011 at 11:01 pm
I loved Jane. She managed to transcend her original job description of ‘ambulatory bosom’, and became a wonderful, dry comedian and fantastic singer. She was also no slouch when straight acting was called for. She seemd like the kind of gal you’d like to have a beer with, although we may have disagreed over religion. Another icon of old school Hollywood glamour gone. Sigh…
March 2, 2011 at 8:39 am
Jane dragged Frank Tashlin to church one time when he was going through one of his regular divorces and feeling miserable. It didn’t take. Still, I’m sure it helped her: she had quite a challenging life, but her attitude was always the same pragmatic, positive one we see in her characterisations.