Jane Russell Net Worth

Jane Russell's Quotes

• Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw (1943). And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.
• They held up The Outlaw (1943) for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
• Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
• Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pick up the pails. They were not shooting the pails.
• The girl with the summer-hot lips . . . and the winter-cold heart.

Interesting Facts about Jane Russell

1. Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award (1989).
2. Howard Hughes, in addition to designing airplanes, is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of her physical endowments.
3. She and husband Robert Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy Waterfield, on February 15, 1952.
4. She and husband Robert Waterfield adopted a 15-month-old British boy, Tommy Kavanaugh, in December 1952.
5. First husband Robert Waterfield was her high school sweetheart.
6. Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families.
7. Her breasts are the namesake for "The Jane Russell Peaks" in Alaska.
8. Russell filed for divorce from Robert Waterfield on February 2, 1967.
9. Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell".
10. In 1955, she and husband Robert Waterfield formed Russ-Field Productions. Under this banner, they made Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), Run for the Sun (1956) and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).
11. Attended Van Nuys High School with James Dougherty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe's first husband.
12. Married John Calvin Peoples in a "kaftan" ceremony in Santa Barbara, California.
13. A born-again Christian decades before the term was coined, she held weekly Bible study at her home which was attended by some of the industry's biggest names.
14. Unable to bear children, Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States.
15. Howard Hughes is reported to have said of her stardom, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough." (Source: quoted in the book "The Humour of Sex" by Robert Hale).
16. Her three adopted children are Tracy Waterfield, Thomas Waterfield and Buck Waterfield.
17. Attended the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953).
18. Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) in order to find up close and personal what Howard Hughes was really like.
19. In 2006 (at age 84), she put together a musical show entitled "The Swinging Forties" that played twice a month at the Radisson Hotel. The show featured herself and about a dozen local Santa Maria (CA) residents, including a choir director, lay preacher and retired police officer. She formed the show out of boredom and because there was nothing much going on in town for the older folks to do.
20. The troops in Korea named two embattled hills in her honor.