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(Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell)
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| 21 June 21 |
is born in Bemidji, Minnesota, at 6 a.m.
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| 32 |
her family moves to Van Nuys, California
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| 37 |
her father dies, and she takes a $10-a-week job as a chiropodist's receptionist
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| 38 |
starts dating her high school sweetheart, Bob Waterfield, the star quarterback for the Cleveland Rams football team
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| 40 |
enrolls at Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop, but after one term switches to Maria Ouspenskaya's school, where she studies for six months
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Hughes signs her to a seven-year contract
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| 41 |
Hughes refuses Zanuck's offer for her to play Dona Sol in Blood and Sand
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| 24 April 43 |
elopes with Waterfield to Las Vegas, gets married, and follows her new husband, who is inducted into the Army, to Georgia
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| 45 |
she and Waterfield return to California
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| 15 February 52 |
the Waterfields adopt a newly born girl, Tracy
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| April 51 |
does an advertisement for Jergens Lotion
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| May 52 |
threatens to walk out on her RKO contract at the same time Bob Mitchum leaves
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| December 52 |
the Waterfields adopt a fifteen-month-old British boy, Tommy Kavanaugh
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| 54 |
forms Russ-Field Productions with her husband
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| July 54 |
is so impressed by Dick Egan's performance with her in The Big Rainbow that she'd like to sign him as her leading man for her first independent Russ-Field picture
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| 56 |
forms a production company with Clark Gable for Last Man On Wagon Mound, but Eleanor Parker plays in the finished film
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the Waterfields adopt a nine-month-old boy, Robert John
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| October 56 |
attends the fundraiser for President Eisenhower's reelection campaign, held at the Hollywood Bowl
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| September 57 |
avoids answering questions about the similarity of her The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown to the Marie MacDonald kidnapping
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| October 57 |
debuts with a solo act at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas and fulfills later engagements in Mexico, South America, Europe, Canada, and the U.S.A.
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| Summer 61 |
debuts with a tour of Janus in New England
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| Fall 61 |
plays in Skylark at the Drury Lane Theater, Chicago
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| November 62 |
plays in Bells are Ringing at the Westchester Town House, Yonkers, New York
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| 63 |
is signed for MGM's Never Enough and Richard Condon's A Talent For Loving
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| 2 February 67 |
files for divorce from Waterfield in Los Angeles
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| 25 August 68 |
marries actor Roger W. Barrett in Beverly Hills. Both are 47.
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| 17 November 68 |
Roger Barrett dies of a heart-attack
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| 31 January 74 |
marries real estate man John Calvin Peoples in a "kaftan" ceremony in Santa Barbara, California. He's 49; she's 52.
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| 91 |
the couple lives in Sedona, Arizona
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Sources:
The RKO Gals by J. R. Parrish, Silver Screen, Movie Story, The Hollywood Reporter, Motion Picture, Modern Screen |
Recommended Books:
Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours by Jane Russell |
Links:
Filmography
Jane Russell at For the Love of Opera Gloves
Jane Russell at Bombshells.com
Denny Jackson's Jane Russell Page
Jane Russell Shrine
Brian's Drive-In Theater: Jane Russell
Wallpapers |
