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...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...
Jane Russell, hypermammiferous comeon for The Outlaw (see CINEMA), bravely bounced into a personal-appearance tour with the movie she made five years ago, but somehow the spontaneity was gone. At a Chicago cocktail party, swarming newsmen found her just as advertised. Miss Russell informed them: "I'm sick of talking about myself." On her movie: "They should have let Billy the Kid lie where he was." She eyed her admirers, observed: "How they drool...
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...
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...
When the raiding started, organized baseball in the U.S. declared diplomatic warfare on the Liga. The U.S. officially recognized a small-time competitor, the Mexican National League, pointedly ignored the Pasquel circuit, which thus remained "outlaw." Smart Dictator Pasquel affects to be very amused by this. Says he: "Yankee humor...