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Word: janes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls are holding their own. Two secretaries keep busy mailing out the classic shot of Betty Grable in a tight bathing suit. Studies of Rita Hayworth, who has not made a movie since 1948's The Loves of Carmen, are still in demand. Also in high favor: Jane Russell, Esther Williams, Virginia Mayo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Boys | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

G.I.s also have an eye for new faces, bosoms and legs belonging to actresses who mostly went through World War II in bobby-sox: Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Jane Powell, Ruth Roman, Vera-Ellen, Debra Paget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Boys | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Where Danger Lives (RKO Radio) gives movie audiences, at long last, a chance to see highly publicized Faith Domergue, latest graduate of the Howard Hughes straining-bodice school of dramatic art. Hughes discovered Faith in 1941, put her into a strenuous training program for stardom. Like Jane Russell, another Hughes discovery whom she somewhat resembles, Faith bloomed unseen except in leg and torso art poses. Her first film, Vendetta, has been awaiting release since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...sooner did we arrive at the hotel [in Paris] after a very rough Channel crossing than I found again what a very small place the world is. There in the dining room were Dr. & Mrs. Jessup from Mt. Vernon Street, and Jane Silby and her aunt from Commonwealth Avenue, and the Murrows from Brookline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: At Home Abroad | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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