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Word: outlawful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will find that they were shapely but not "tiny" as you say in your Kiki article. . . . Her shoes would have fitted that miner's daughter, Clementine, nicely. She had big teeth, a big mouth, and I'll bet she would have made a hit in The Outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...five years, while Producer Howard Hughes and film censors played put & take with certain shots in The Outlaw, Jane Russell was only a box-office bust. Last week she became a bonanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bust Becomes Bonanza | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...first week, the unmitigated Outlaw took Atlantans for $22,413-$3,091 more than Atlanta's own Gone With the Wind, according to Russell Birdwell, Hughes's pressagent. In Chicago it topped the Oriental Theater's alltime record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bust Becomes Bonanza | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

This week she could finally be seen in celluloid-not once, but twice. Hughes's $2,500,000 The Outlaw was ready for public release (first showing: Richmond). So was Young Widow, a picture Jane made for Producer Hunt Stromberg. Hughes had made his peace with some of the censors who growled after The Outlaw's San Francisco showing; he also did not want to be scooped by Stromberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Week: Jane Russell | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

What audiences would make of Jane's films was still uncertain. The two pictures offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Week: Jane Russell | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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