Russell’s provocative performance in “The Outlaw” — and the studio publicity ... with such lines as “How Would You Like to Tussle With Russell?” and “Mean! Moody!

Sample ballyhoo line: “How would you like to tussle with Russell?” His efforts were not going unnoticed by the public, the industry, the police, the church. In St. Louis, The Outlaw ...

A legend for voluptuousness almost from the time filming began on “The Outlaw,” the Howard Hughes production that marked her movie debut, Ms. Russell made many other well-remembered movies ...

Take for example the story about the bra he designed for Jane Russell to wear in the 1943 Western The Outlaw. A riff on Billy the Kid, the film represented one of Hughes' few directorial efforts.

Jane Russell had some, and Howard Hughes knew how to exploit them. Having cast the 19-year-old as the female lead in his western The Outlaw, Hughes designed a seamless brassiere for uplift ...

Russell’s provocative performance in “The Outlaw” — and the studio publicity ... with such lines as “How Would You Like to Tussle With Russell?” and “Mean! Moody!