JANE RUSSELL jaunts 'round the dance
floor while auditioning for STRICTLY COME
PRANCING, but sadly she's too much of a woman to
impress any of the gaylords on the judges panel. Never
mind, at least us rugged, macho, manly-men appreciate
her many feminine charms. (Hey, where's my hand-
bag with my lipstick and eye-shadow got to?)
8 comments:
Yes the days when a woman was a woman and looked beaitiful . And she even liked men admiring her...Not now women are men ,and look at it ,your doing time for harrassment..Time for my blood pressure pill.
Better take two, LH - I can see today's topsy-turvy world annoys you. (As it would most sensible people.)
If she was a starlet today, she'd probably be covered in tattoos and have a ring through her hooter! Compared to the golden age of Hollywood stars, most of today's lot look like Biffa Bacon's Mum...my fave from that era is Carole Lombard...
Ah, for the days when women were women (and ladies), eh, HS? Instead of being harpies and ladettes as far too many of them are now.
As a nipper I was taken to see Son of Paleface with Jane Russell and not long after that Calamity Jane with Doris Day.
When early BBC TV started showing westerns it was dissapointing that there were no attractive women in the small b/w TV stories. There was Dale Evans on the Roy Rogers show but if she had an attractive figure it was well hidden. There was Miss Kitty on Gun Law (Gun Smoke) who somehow was the least attractive saloon owner (prostitute) ever. Other westerns had no regular female charactors that I can remember.
Jane Russell always displayed a self assured attitude to the fact she was attractive to men in the roles she played. Had she ever appeared on Wagon Train it would have been one memorable episode.
I fancied Linda Cristal who played Victoria in The High Chaparral, as well as Linda Evans (Audra) in The Big Valley, so I'd say they were worth drooling over, T47. Yeah, I wonder if Jane ever guested on any of the TV westerns? I'll have to check.
Jane was in some western movies (including Bob Hope's two "Paleface" comedies, and her debut in The Outlaw), but, AFAIK, her only TV Western appearance was one episode of the anthology series Death Valley Days.
I doubt that it was ever shown in the UK, TC, because I don't remember ever seeing the name before. I do, of course, have the two Paleface films on DVD.
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