{"id":8985,"date":"2011-03-02T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:23:33","slug":"jane-russell-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"Jane Russell, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eisnerrussell.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8986\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eisnerrussell.jpg?resize=138%2C192\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jane Russell, who died last Monday at age 89, will be remembered fondly for many reasons: her full-bodied sexiness, her saucy\u00a0performance as Marilyn Monroe\u2019s co-star in <em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em>, her various turns\u00a0as a comic foil for Bob Hope. But comics fans will also remember that she was one of the many Hollywood stars that Will Eisner recruited in his work (Lauren Bacall was an especial favourite). Russell\u2019s erotically charged performance in the 1943 movie <em>The Outlaw<\/em>, a film in which her cleavage was much on display, was hugely controversial in the 1940s. In the Spirit section of Sept. 1, 1946, Eisner transformed Russell into Olga Bustle, \u201cthe girl with those big, big eyes.\u201d Farewell, Jane Russell: your movies will continue to entertain the world, as will Eisner\u2019s affectionate parody of your early persona.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5921TheOutlawJaneRussell.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5921TheOutlawJaneRussell.jpg?resize=300%2C281\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Russell, who died last Monday at age 89, will be remembered fondly for many reasons: her full-bodied sexiness, her saucy\u00a0performance as Marilyn Monroe\u2019s co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, her various turns\u00a0as a comic foil for Bob Hope. But comics fans will also remember that she was one of the many Hollywood stars that Will Eisner recruited in his work (Lauren Bacall was an especial favourite). Russell\u2019s erotically charged performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[622,1373],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-jane-russell","tag-eisner"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}