Talk:Jane Russell/Archive 1

Purple prose

I would like to congratulate the writer of the text which describes "[Jane Russell] on a haystack glowering with sulking beauty and youthful sensuality as her bosoms push forcefully against her amply filled dress." -- 71.198.189.142 01:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Aerodynamics

Wasn't there a big publicity campaign about Howard Hughes designing Russell's outlaw bra, or did emerge afterward, as an historical footnote?

Yes, Howard Hughes designed a special brassière for her. He also had to defend the Outlaw against the board who rated motion pictures back then, since the movie was considered obscene. Kamikaze Highlander 16:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Robert Waterfield

Bob Waterfield was Jane Russell's most famous husband. Van Nuys High School Class of 1938; Jane Russell was Class of 1939. They married when he was still at UCLA. He went to the Cleveland Rams who moved in 1946 to Los Angeles. He coached the LA Rams in the early 1960's. 1965 Class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Waterfield was full retired at the time of his and Russell's divorce. (Ustye (talk) 10:41, 22 February 2009 (UTC))

Introduction

The introduction paragraph to Jane Russell is one sentence long and surely needs to be expanded? I found it very unhelpful and at odds with other articles~~TF~~

Sex symbol

Does this article really need to start out by calling her a sex symbol? "Jane Russell is an American film actress and sex symbol" seems like a strangely curt sentence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.27.47 (talk) 15:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

This is the sort of point of view language, that we try to avoid, and for that reason I have removed it. (Refer WP:NPOV) The lead is very scant and unsatisfactory, and hopefully it will be expanded. Perhaps then her status as a "sex symbol" could be put into a suitable context. Rossrs (talk) 15:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

"Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell" ?

Jane was not born as "Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell", but simply as Jane Russell. In an article in the book Killer Tomatoes, for which she was interviewed, she states that Geraldine was her mother's name and Ernestine her aunt's name, so the name in the article and side template should be changed.

Source: Killer Tomatoes, ed. Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner. McFarland & Co, Inc, Publishers, 2004. p. 148 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.232.98 (talk) 04:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 96.241.216.7, 1 March 2011

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Russell died Monday, February 28th, 2011 at her home in Santa Maria, California, the day after she attended the Oscars. She was 89.

Russell reportedly caught a bad cold and died of respiratory difficulties.

Her children, Thomas K. Waterfield, Tracy Foundas and Robert "Buck" Waterfield," were at her side, Etta Waterfield said.

96.241.216.7 (talk) 01:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Done and the article is now unprotected as this has now been verified by reliable sources--5 albert square (talk) 01:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Where is the evidence that she attended last month's Academy Awards ceremony? Jim Michael (talk) 16:02, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

There isn't any. According to photos published recently, she attended in 2008. The article doesn't claim she attended this year, only the above anon is saying this. --CliffC (talk) 22:56, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Find-a-Grave link removed

I have again removed the external link to Russell's Find-a-Grave page. Please review the material at Wikipedia:External_links/Perennial_websites#Find-a-Grave to understand why. (As an aside, Find-a-Grave doesn't even claim to know the location of her grave (if any, see next section)). --CliffC (talk) 16:56, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Cremated?

Several users have edited the article to say that Russell was cremated, but so far no one has offered a source, reliable or otherwise, saying so. If you have a reliable source, please feel free to add that information. --CliffC (talk) 16:56, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Continual addition of "pro-life activists" category

It's quite unsupported. So far, no one's even managed to provide a reliable source that says she opposed abortion. While it's possible that one could be found, that wouldn't make her a "pro-life" activist. We don't divide the entire population of the United States into Category:American pro-choice activists and Category:American pro-life activists based on their views - they have to be, y'know, activists. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:14, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure about this one myself, but the references I saw strongly implied that she started the World Adoption International Fund because of her pro-life views. I haven't yet found a RS that outright states this, though. If true, I would think it would qualify her as an pro-life activist. The source would need to draw a direct line between the two for us to state that, though. (And I did find an RS for being pro-life, and added it.)--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:09, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I think that even if this link could be found (I got the impression, from the research I did, that she founded the group because she had trouble adopting), we would have to prove that she worked against abortion, instead of merely in favor of adoption because she opposed abortion. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:19, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Philomena

This article currently states: "In the 2013 film Philomena, it is strongly implied that Russell may have adopted--or even bought-- a child from the same tainted Sean Ross Abbey in Ireland featured in this true-life movie." The book on which the film is based makes it clear that Russell adopted Thomas Kavanagh in London. Since he was an Irish citizen, his passport and visa for passage to the United States was issued by the Irish government's DoEA (Department of External Affairs). The same department also issued visas for children adopted from the Sean Ross Abbey and got caught up in the scandal concerning the issuance of visas for "purchased" Irish children adopted by "rich" Americans, which arose from the press coverage of the Russell-Kavanagh affair. I do not know exactly how this is presented in the film, but suspect the Wikipedia editor who added this sentence may have misinterpreted the screenplay. --Robert.Allen (talk) 03:01, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Referring to adopted children being "purchased" just because their adoptive parents pay a fee or donation to an adoption agency or orphanage is absurd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.111.234.111 (talk) 21:08, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Jane Russell's 20 year contract

I see nothing in the article about how, when Howard Hughes sold the studio, and essentially was getting out of the motion picture business, that didn't keep him from re-signing Russell to a new, non-exclusive million-dollar contract that ran 20 years. Her next picture, Foxfire, was a loan-out to Universal. I'll give a reference for this, the associated press obituary, by writers Bob Thomas and John Rogers:

'He also bought the ailing RKO film studio and signed her to a 20-year contract that paid her $1,000 a week.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022805363.html

Better is this, from People magazine July 31, 1978:

'A 20-year $1 million contract with Hughes expired just two years ago, and she has received a $50,000 advance for an in-progress autobiography (“I write every day; now I’m up to age 19”).'

http://people.com/archive/jane-russell-went-to-jail-but-insists-she-was-not-in-her-cups-vol-10-no-5/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanLanglois (talk • contribs) 07:49, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Russellville

In 1932 (when Jane Russsell was about 11 years old), her family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The ranch-compound they lived on had it's own functioning chapel and gym. It was called "Russellville". It was later torn down. Wilken Woodland Apartments (13530 Leadwell Street) and Brooktree Estates Apartments (13535 Valerio St) stand there today. Jane Russell also had a homes in Sherman Oaks, Santa Barbara, Arizona, and Santa Maria, and owned an apartment building named Taos West on Woodman Avenue, just south of Kaiser hospital, Panorama City, Los Angeles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.114.108.98 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 11 May 2019 (UTC)