In a 2009 interview for the liner notes to another CD, Fine and Dandy, Russell denounced the Columbia album as "horrible and boring to listen to". She sang with the Kay Kyser Orchestra on radio, and recorded two singles with his band, "As Long As I Live" and "Boin-n-n-ng!" She also cut a 78 rpm album that year for Columbia Records, Let's Put Out the Lights, which included eight torch ballads and cover art that included a diaphanous gown that for once put the focus more on her legs than on her breasts. In 1947, Russell launched a musical career. With Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in Road to Bali (1952) The film went over budget by $600,000 and was a box office failure. She did not appear in another movie until 1946, when she played Joan Kenwood in Young Widow for Hunt Stromberg, who released it through United Artists. I've seen plenty of pin-up pictures that have sex appeal, interest, and allure, but they're not vulgar. I don't think a star has any business posing in a vulgar way. Speaking about her sex appeal, Russell later said, "Sex appeal is good – but not in bad taste. She was a popular pin-up photo with servicemen during World War II. He joked, "Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands." Howard Hughes said, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Her favorite co-star Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell". Russell's measurements were 38-24-36, and she stood 5 ft 7 in (97-61-91 cm and 1.7 m), making her more statuesque than most of her contemporaries. According to Jane's 1985 autobiography, she said that the bra was so uncomfortable that she secretly discarded it and wore her own bra with the cups padded with tissue and the straps pulled up to elevate her breasts. Contrary to countless incorrect reports in the media since the release of The Outlaw, Russell did not wear the specially designed underwire bra that Howard Hughes had designed and made for her to wear during filming. During that time, Russell was kept busy doing publicity and became known nationally. When the movie was finally passed, it had a general release in 1946. Problems occurred with the censorship of the production code over the way her ample cleavage was displayed in promotion of the film. The movie was completed in 1941, but it was not released until 1943 in a limited release. In 1940, Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul Howard Hughes, and made her motion-picture debut in The Outlaw (1943), a story about Billy the Kid that went to great lengths to showcase her voluptuous figure. Publicity still of Russell in The Outlaw by George Hurrell She also modeled for photographers, and, at the urging of her mother, studied drama and acting with Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop and with actress and acting coach Maria Ouspenskaya. Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father in his mid-40s, when she decided to work as a receptionist after graduation. In addition to music, she was interested in drama and participated in stage productions at Van Nuys High School. Russell's mother arranged for her to take piano lessons. The family then moved to Southern California where her father worked as an office manager. Russell's parents lived in Edmonton, Alberta until shortly before her birth and returned to that city nine days after her birth, where they lived for the first one or two years of her life. Army, and her mother an actress with a road troupe her mother was also the subject of a portrait by Mary Bradish Titcomb, Portrait of Geraldine J., which received public attention when purchased by Woodrow Wilson. Her father had been a first lieutenant in the U.S. Her brothers were Thomas, Kenneth, Jamie, and Wallace. She was the eldest child and only daughter of the five children of Geraldine (née Jacobi) and Roy William Russell, who married on March 22, 1918, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota.
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