{"id":17634,"date":"2011-02-28T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=17634"},"modified":"2011-02-28T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T03:18:55","slug":"rip-jane-russell-1921-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/rip-jane-russell-1921-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Jane Russell, 1921-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jane-russell\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-17635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell-192x128.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell-301x200.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">B<\/span>ursting onto the Hollywood scene with a smoldering earthiness in 1943&#8217;s <em>The Outlaw<\/em>, which was banned or suppressed in several places due to its on-screen sexuality, Jane Russell was not the staid glamourpuss so common at the time, but something more visceral, wearing her curves with pride, and slipping easily into every genre, including musicals and comedies. In fact, she showed quite a talent for those last two, as shown in the clips below from <em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em> and <em>Son of Paleface<\/em>, two excellent films in which Russell easily holds her own against Marilyn Monroe and Bob Hope. Thanks for the memories, Jane Russell. RIP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"550\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pthokb18V7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"550\" height=\"339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7v3d_lJ6UKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bursting onto the Hollywood scene with a smoldering earthiness in 1943&#8217;s The Outlaw, which was banned or suppressed in several places due to its on-screen sexuality, Jane Russell was not the staid glamourpuss so common at the time, but something more visceral, wearing her curves with pride, and slipping easily into every genre, including musicals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1058,2094,2093,2095],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/jane-russell.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1653,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/favorite-films-one-letter-at-a-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":17634,"position":0},"title":"Favorite Films, One Letter at a Time","author":"Jandy","date":"November 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I rarely organize my collections alphabetically, at least not as the major organizational tool, since the letter the title starts with is usually less meaningful than the year it was made or the genre that it's in. 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