{"title":"A Woman of Faith","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.21","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at Jane’s deep spiritual beliefs which she had been raised on and carried into adulthood. The construction of a Chapel on Geraldine Jacobi’s property is also discussed along with various religious projects Jane’s brothers were involved in. Also explored is how the deliberately crafted screen image devised by Howard Hughes contradicted Jane’s real life personality.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127170089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blondes","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813181080.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813181080.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes a deep dive into the making of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, directed by Howard Hawks and co-starring Marilyn Monroe. Discussed are the differences in Russell and Monroe’s personalities, their rapport both onscreen and off, and the enduring appeal of the film. Issues relating to the PCA, Travilla’s costumes, and Monroe’s personality quirks are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130722584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valley Girl","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813181080.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813181080.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter covers Jane Russell’s childhood through the age of fifteen. Items discussed include the birth of Jane’s four younger brothers and how they helped shape her personality, Jane’s early exposure to the arts, primarily through music lessons the school drama club, along with her early precociousness and childhood as a self-professed tomboy. Also discussed is the family home \"La Posada\" which would be an anchor for much of Jane’s life, along with her time spent with her aunt and cousins in Fontana.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133008630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Lord","authors":"Douglas C. Lord, Brian J. Barnes","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116742327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wing-Ding Tonight","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.17","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the continued momentum of Jane’s career with Las Vegas Story and RKO opposite Victor Mature and Vincent Price, and Son of Paleface at Paramount with Bob Hope and Roy Rogers. Also covered is the adoption of Jane’s first child.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117136338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kick-starting a Career","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Jane’s first foray into live performing in nightclubs along with radio and recording appearances as a singer with Kay Kyser. Jane’s renewed contract with Howard Hughes is also covered along with a renewed momentum with her film career and the filming of The Paleface with Bob Hope for Paramount Pictures, Montana Belle with George Brent for Fidelity Pictures, and Double Dynamite with Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx for RKO.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130619523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Bemidji to Burbank","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter gives background information and genealogy of Russell’s parents, Geraldine Jacobi and Roy Russell. Their upbringings are briefly discussed, along with their courtship, marriage, the birth and death of their first child, and the birth of Jane. The chapter ends with the couple moving from Edmonton, Canada to Burbank, California.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131549292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endings, Beginnings, and Endings","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.27","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses Jane’s final films: Cauliflower Cupids, The Born Losers, and Darker Than Amber along with the inevitable dissolution of her marriage to Robert Waterfield and her battles with alcoholism. Also discussed is her whirlwind romance with actor Roger Barrett, which came on the heels of the divorce, and his untimely death mere months after the wedding.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131634196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Uproar","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.18","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details Jane’s difficulties in adopting a second child in the United States which caused her to investigate adopting a child from a European orphanage. This led to Jane taking a child out of England who was surrendered to her by desperate parents, resulting in investigations by the FBI and Parliament. Also described is the British Command Performance Jane was invited to attend and perform at.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126643574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Life Off-screen","authors":"C. Rice","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kz4gcv.28","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter details Jane’s attempts to recover from Roger Barrett’s death by occupying herself with stock theater appearances and her only Broadway show as Elaine Stritch’s replacement in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. Also discussed is Jane’s pet-project, an apartment complex in Van Nuys called Taos West and her involvement with Playtex as their spokesperson. Also included is a controversial interview with Jane that appeared in Esquire, along with Jane’s third marriage to John Peoples.","PeriodicalId":112665,"journal":{"name":"Mean...Moody...Magnificent!","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128237994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}