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My Path and My Detours: An Autobiography

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Dust jacket notes: "The Outlaw: Forty years after the release of this motion picture, its title still conjures up an image of a dark-haired female - peasant blouse hanging loosely from her shoulders, lips sensuously pouted, with an ample bosom and long legs - reclining seductively on a stack of hay. Her name was Jane Russell and both the movie and the girl evoked theatrical notoriety. A five-year publicity campaign was launched and a new sex-symbol was created. She was not characterized as the 'girl-next-door.' Rather, she was lust, desire and everything good boys were not supposed to think about. But think about her they did, and the box-office zoomed. The American G.I. returning from the perils of World War II was eager for more than just his childhood sweetheart, and Jane Russell fir the bill. Even today, she remains the advertising symbol of the 'full-figured' female. But beneath the photographer's delight, Jane Russell was the girl-next-door. Destined to marry her own high school sweetheart, football legend Robert Waterfield, and become the mother of three adopted children, she founded WAIF, a national adoption organization. Her primary goals were never her movie career and stardom, but instead her close relationship with her family and friends, and her own personal faith in the Lord. Jane's rise to stardom under the direction of Howard Hughes, her legendary long-term contract, and her succession of rises and falls in the film industry were all the public was to know of this warm, down-to-earth humanitarian whose love for children set her apart and about which she writes in her candid autobiography."