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Article: Hollywood sex-bomb Jane tells it how it really was; Jane Russell Scene By Scene BBC2, 3.20pm.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- May 15, 1999
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ONE of Hollywood's greatest all-time sex symbols is celebrated in a special programme filmed in Scotland.
Described by Bob Hope as the "the two and only Miss Russell", she danced with Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was best pals with Robert "Mitch" Mitchum and, perhaps most famously, was the object of producer Howard Hughes's obsession.
She made little more than 20 films. the best ones being shot between 1943 and 1957.
Mark Cousins, the presenter and director of this afternoon's programme, says: "It was a time when the American film ...