Cinema: This Week: Jane Russell

In the glossary of Hollywood, "talent" is one of the synonyms for bosom. Accordingly, Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 24, has been, as every fan-magazine reader knows, Hollywood's most talented actress. But, except for a brief (1943) showing in San Francisco, she has never been seen on the screen.

Pictures of her torso have adorned the snouts of U.S. fighter planes over Buna; U.S. sailors named her "the girl we'd like to have waiting for us in every port." In the five years since Producer-Aviator Howard Hughes found her in a chiropodist's office, she has been ardently and endlessly photographed in silks...

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