 JANE RUSSELL |
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JANE RUSSELL |
WOm!WAm! Career Perspective:
 Much like Ann-Margret
did in the 1960s, thunder-thigh Jane made fetishistic perversions
wholesome
in
the 50s... In costumes bordering on the obscene, she would shake
her mammoth mamma-ries and abundant buttocks about while at no time
degrading herself, but rather innocently inviting the audience to enjoy
the over-stated wonders of her flesh and talent... Always as
powerful or sweet as the scene called for, she was clearly superior to
men, but usually willing to play up to, rather than dominate
them... But when she did dominate, far-from-plain Jane was
about as overwhelming and thorough as a WOman could be... Her dominance
resounded by projecting a masculine /
Feminine Power, a SHE-he dynamic, combining man/broad
toughness with broad-beyond-belief Female Fhysicality... Between 1952-54
she was a magnet for the majority of all FemmeFetishes featured in the Survey... She set the standard for Gargantuan GlamGoddesses...
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Calamity Jane That's right, she's got double barrels... The viciousness in which she shoots down men is startling for 1948... Later re-made as the Don Knotts comedy Shakiest Gun in the West with the equally Gargantuan Barbara Rhoades manning the Tough Gal role... |
One of her 2 tough-but-lovable saloon singer roles with Big Bob Mitchum... Jane's just about any man's kind of a WOman... |
Macao
 The 2nd Mitchum pairing -- she also swings a mean high-heeled shoe... |
 Belle Starr It's a safe bet she's about as far removed from the historical character that inspired this movie as she could be... |
The
he-She quality of JR is reinforced as she's a Gal called "Mike..."
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Paired with MM in the watershed breakthrough of popular media Fetish... |
 Just a little old Gal looking for love decked out in the most scandalous Fetish Costumes of Filmdom... Don't know about the French, but she'll straighten out just about anybody's line... |
 Foxy Jane's firing on all cylinders... |
Weak follow-up to Blondes, with Jeanne Crain no sub for MM, but still no one comes in a bigger package than Jane... |
Jane's a gypsy, shaking more than her tambourine... |
Don't know what the revolution's all about, but we're on Mamie's side... |
At this stage in her career, producers didn't really know what to do with Jane, but putting her in a fuzzy pink nightgown wasn't that bad an idea... The Red Skelton Show ("Lillian Martin")  Reprising "Mike" from Son Of Paleface... |