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Born in Paris in 1868, Jane Avril was the bastard daughter of an Italian nobleman and a morbid demimondaine whose cruelty for a while sent Jane to an asylum. Avril never had a dancing lesson. She and Lautrec probably first met at the Moulin Rouge in 1889. She had a son,* and in the year Lautrec died (1901) took the boy to New York, but returned in a month to her beloved Paris...
After an unsuccessful trip to Madrid-she was still in her 305-Avril decided to retire. She married a respectable "protector," one Maurice Biais (who died in 1926), and withdrew to a quiet life in a Paris suburb. In 1933, almost destitute, widowed Jane was obliged to abandon her house, enter a Paris home for the aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing...
...advance signs indicated that The Outlaw would be either the best or the worst picture of the year. Its making cost $2,500,000. Its two young stars, full-breasted Jane Russell and slim Jack Buetel, had been ballyhooed to magazine cover fame for two years-and yet the U.S. had never seen them on the screen. Howard Hughes, the eccentric designer-aviator-producer, personally directed the picture and surrounded it with such provoking secrecy that not even the actors in it were allowed to see the finished product. Last fortnight The Outlaw had its premiere. What Hughes apparently...
...friend, Director Howard Hawks, who had helped him make Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
...time thus gained makes possible the arrival of Jane Russell. Her role: Doc's girl friend, a half-breed moron called Rio. When Billy is shot by Sheriff Garrett as he resists arrest for a killing, Doc comes to the rescue, takes Billy to Rio's home. Rio nurses the Kid back to health...