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Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell [1] was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota. [3] [4] She had four brothers: Thomas, Kenneth, Jamie, and Wallace.[5]Her father had been a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and her mother an actress with a road troupe; [6] her mother was also the subject of a portrait by Mary Bradish Titcomb, Portrait of Geraldine J., which received public attention ...
The Outlaw is a 1943 American Western film directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston. Hughes also produced the film, removing original director Howard Hawks and replacing original cinematographer Lucien Ballard with Gregg Toland. The film is notable as Russell's breakthrough role to ...
Hughes retained the rights to pictures that he had personally produced, including those made at RKO. He also retained Jane Russell's contract. For Howard Hughes, this was the virtual end of his 25-year involvement in the motion-picture industry. However, his reputation as a financial wizard emerged unscathed.
The film – which was at one stage known as Star Sapphire, the title of the unpublished story by Gerald Drayson it was based on [8] – was announced in July 1949 with Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum already attached. [9] For Howard Hughes, who owned RKO and acted as its executive producer, Mitchum and Russell were the epitome of sexual ...
Lori Nelson claimed Howard Hughes wanted her for the lead and paid Universal Pictures for her use; however, Jane Russell owed RKO a film. The lead was given to Russell with a part written for Nelson so she could keep her fee.
The Las Vegas Story is a 1952 American suspense film noir starring Jane Russell and Victor Mature, directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Robert Sparks and Howard Hughes with Samuel Bischoff as the executive producer. The story linking the scenes is narrated by Hoagy Carmichael.
Julie Benton (Jane Russell) and Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum), "crackling magnetism" [3] Macao was the second feature that Josef von Sternberg filmed to fulfill a two-picture contract with RKO Pictures then owned by Howard Hughes. (Sternberg's first feature for Hughes was the color epic Jet Pilot). Shooting began in September 1950 and the film ...
Introduced to Howard Hughes, who was about to begin filming The Outlaw, Buetel was signed to play the lead role as Billy the Kid, with the previously signed David Bacon being dropped from the film. Hughes also signed another newcomer, Jane Russell , for the female lead, and realizing the inexperience of his two stars, also signed veteran actors ...