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Musée national éthiopien d'Addis Abeba.
J'ai entendu ce matin sur France Culture une interview du conservateur du nouveau département des Arts byzantins du musée du Louvre, département qui devrait ouvrir en 2027. La conception retenue de l’art concerné est assez large puisque ce département présentera, outre des œuvres d’art, en particulier des icônes, des pays classiques se réclamant de la religion orthodoxe au sens large, également des œuvres de pays pouvant s’y rattacher. Parmi eux, le conservateur a cité l’Ethiopie, historiquement un des premiers pays chrétiens. Autrefois rattachée à l’Eglise copte d’Egypte, la religion éthiopienne, mâtinée de judaïsme et qui ne reconnait pas les décisions du concile de Chalcédoine, est maintenant autocéphale et son art religieux très riche est très original et souvent d’une grande qualité artistique. Je me réjouis qu’une place soit faite au Louvre à cet art assez méconnu et qui mérite d’être mis en valeur.
Outre les peintures et fresques murales recouvrant le murs des églises, l'art éthiopien s'est exercé dans les exceptionnelles enluminures des manuscrits qui étaient présents dans toutes les églises, souvent hélas sans protection particulière, et qui ont fait l'objet des nombreux vols.
Cette photo d’une icône éthiopienne (probablement du XIXe siècle) a été prise dans des conditions de lumière difficile au Musée national éthiopien, qui renferme des collections certes très riches (dont le squelette de la fameuse Lucy, en ce moment exposé à Prague) mais dont les conditions de présentation n’ont rien de commun avec les plus grands musées des pays occidentaux.
On notera en particulier les yeux en amande des personnages, caractéristiques de l'art éthiopien.
Three logos and images are visible here that are as all American as baseball and apple pie!
On the building at left can be seen the Harley Davidson logo. Founded in 1903 their legendary motorcycles have a cult following. At right are the golden arches introduced in 1955 when the small McDonald's restaurant founded 15 years earlier in Southern California began to be franchised out and eventually spread to all the corners of the globe.
But front and center is the oldest of them all. The Providence and Worcester Railroad was chartered in 1844 and has been hauling freight and passengers on rails through the Blackstone Valley between its namesake cities for nearly two centuries! Here, local PR-3 is working Teknor Apex beside the industrial highway on the East Providence Running Track.
GP38-2 was built new for the railroad in November 1980 and has spent her entire 39 years working the rails of the Ocean State.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Thursday November 5, 2020
From left to right the following peaks: Escalavrado, Dedo de Nossa Senhora, Dedo de Deus, Cabeça de Peixe, Pedra do Sino. Parque Nacional da Serra dos Orgãos, Teresópolis, RJ, Brazil.
Car manufacturers would retool to produce a new and fresh design every year. This image shows and easily recognizable year and model.
Ms Neveah Niu rocking her iconic group gift (group closed) and meghindo's Trina skin with phat as appliers.
Few of the Universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial objects combine whirling, pinwheeling arms with scatterings of sparkling stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark, weaving lanes of cosmic dust, creating truly awesome scenes — especially when viewed through a telescope such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, this image from Hubble frames a perfect spiral specimen: the stunning NGC 2903.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1917a/
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One of my favourite photos from my first roll of Ilford HP5 Plus 400, featuring a couple of Vancouver landmarks of very different proportions, The Steam Clock and Harbour Centre. There's also a tour trolley down the street, and the artist on the corner of Cambie and Water Street does wood burning art with a magnifying glass. He is there all the time, and tourists were crowding and watching him work earlier. Maybe he was going to get up and stretch his legs, but saw me taking a photograph and stayed still for a pose. I was just concentrating in trying to get everything into the frame, so I didn't notice he was looking at me, but I'm really happy how the shot came out.
Olympus XA2
Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Blazinal 1:25, 6 minutes, 68°F/20°C
We photographers are always on the lookout for that special shot! When I photographed this statue of Marylin Monroe among other memorabilia . I spared a thought for the photographer who captured this iconic moment - a shot that tens of millions have seen and admired and that still stands the test of time! A shot that hangs in rooms and garages all over the world and that is even reproduced as a statue!! Wow! Imagine being able to say "I took that shot!"
Happy Hump day!
Iconic view of Plymouth's Crown Jewels - Smeaton's Tower.
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This is the 4th photo I am posting shot from the top floor of the garage at Pier 39. This is the view looking south/southeast. The panoramic view from here is quite amazing. To see what I mean, check out these other shots.
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Beach holidays were born in the 1700s in Great Britain, this social phenomenon was born in which bathers for the first time go to the beaches, certainly not as sunny as those bathed by the Mediterranean Sea, they are fully dressed; this "new fashion" is also encouraged by the belief of English doctors since the beginning of the eighteenth century (starting around 1720), that breathing the brackish sea air and bathing in cold sea water is healthy, invigorates the body and cure lung diseases (conviction even more strengthened by the discovery of oxygen by Antoine Lavoisier in 1778, which led to the greater diffusion and conviction of the theories on the health benefits of sea air, which was thought to be more oxygenated and pure), these theories push many people from Northern Europe suffering from severe lung diseases to spend long periods in southern Europe, often in the south of Italy, this explains why characters with extraordinary qualities come to Taormina to cure their tuberculosis. The photographer baron Wilhelm von Gloeden and the English lady Florence Trevelyan Trevelyan had the seawater brought with their mules from Isola Bella, but while W. Von Gloeden heated the sea water, the English noblewoman Lady Trevelian did not heat it, mindful of the teachings of the English medical school, this will cause her death from bronchopneumonia on 4 October 1907 (see my previous "photographic stories" about Taormina). In fact, "thalassotherapy" was born in Great Britain, together with the social and cultural phenomenon of frequenting bathing beaches (before the beginning of the 18th century, the sea and its beaches were lived, except for reasons of trade and fishing, in a dark and negative way, from the sea often came very serious dangers such as the sudden landings of ferocious pirates, or foreigners carrying very serious diseases could land). Thus the fashion of spending holidays by the sea was born in the English aristocracy and high bourgeoisie of the time, subsequently the habit of going to the sea spread to all levels of society, the railways that were built throughout Great Britain to 'beginning of the nineteenth century, made travel to the ocean accessible even to the lower classes, they too will frequent the seaside resorts, Blackpool becomes the first seaside resort in Great Britain completely frequented by the working classes thanks to the presence of low-cost bathing establishments; the great and definitive boom in seaside tourism will then take place in the 1950s and 1960s. This being the case, it should not be surprising to know that in Great Britain the beaches are more frequented than one might instinctively think due to a climate very different from the Mediterranean one, and that this socio-cultural phenomenon has been investigated at the photographic by photographers of the same Great Britain, of these I mention four names. An important photographer, who probably inspired subsequent photographers, was Tony Ray-Jones, who died prematurely in 1972, at the young age of 30, who was trying to create a “photographic memory” of the stereotypes of the English people; the famous photojournalist Martin Parr, who, although inspired by the previous one, differs from it for his way of doing “social satire” with his goal; finally, I would like to mention David Hurn and Simon Roberts, the latter with wider-ranging photographs, with photographs more detached from the individual. In Italy there are numerous photographers (I will mention only a few) who have made in their long career images captured in seaside resorts (generally we speaking of "beach photography" similar to "street photography"), photographs that are often unique in their style, such as that adopted by Franco Fontana, I mention Mimmo Jodice, Ferdinando Scianna (of whom I am honored to have known him personally), and Massimo Vitali, famous photographer (understood by some as "the photographer of the beaches"), especially for his beautiful photographs taken on the beaches (but not only), thanks to the presence of elevated fixed structures as a kind of mezzanine, built specifically in the bathing beaches for the realization of his photographs. This is my incipit, to introduce the theme I tackled, that of "beach photography", with a series of photographs taken on the beaches of Eastern Sicily, most of which are located near Taormina.
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Le vacanze al mare nascono nel ‘700 in Gran Bretagna, nasce questo fenomeno sociale nel quale i bagnanti per la prima volta si recano sulle spiagge, non certo assolate come quelle bagnate dal mar Mediterraneo, sono completamente vestiti; questa “nuova moda” è anche incoraggiata dalla convinzione dei medici inglesi fin dall’inizio del ‘700 (a partire dal 1720 circa), che respirare l’aria salmastra del mare e fare il bagno nell’acqua marina fredda sia salutare, rinvigorisca il corpo e curi le malattie polmonari (convinzione ancor più rafforzata dalla scoperta dell’ossigeno da parte di Antoine Lavoisier nel 1778, che portò alla maggiore diffusione e convinzione delle teorie sui benefici per la salute dell’aria di mare, che si pensava essere più ossigenata e pura), queste teorie spingono molte persone del Nord Europa affette da gravi malattie polmonari a trascorrere dei lunghi periodi nel sud Europa, spesso nel meridione d’Italia, questo spiega perché a Taormina giungono personaggi dalle qualità straordinarie per curare il proprio “mal sottile”, il barone fotografo Wilhelm von Gloeden e la lady inglese Florence Trevelyan Trevelyan si facevano portare coi muli l’acqua di mare proveniente dall’Isola Bella, però mentre W. Von Gloeden riscaldava l’acqua marina, la nobildonna inglese lady Trevelian non la riscaldava, memore degli insegnamenti della scuola medica inglese, questo causerà la sua morte per broncopolmonite il 4 ottobre del 1907 (vedi i miei precedenti “racconti fotografici” su Taormina). Infatti la “talassoterapia” nasce in Gran Bretagna, insieme al fenomeno sociale e culturale della frequentazione dei lidi balneari (prima dell’inizio del ‘700, il mare e le sue spiagge erano vissuti, tranne che per motivi di commercio e di pesca, in maniera oscura e negativa, dal mare spesso provenivano gravissimi pericoli come gli sbarchi improvvisi di feroci pirati, oppure potevano sbarcare stranieri portatori di gravissime malattie). Nell’aristocrazia e nell’alta borghesia inglese di allora nasce così la moda di trascorrere le vacanze al mare, successivamente l’abitudine di andare al mare si diffonde a tutti i livelli della società, le ferrovie che furono costruite in tutta la Gran Bretagna all’inizio dell’Ottocento, resero i viaggi verso l’oceano accessibili anche per i ceti più bassi, quelli più popolari e meno agiati, anch’essi frequenteranno le località balneari, Blackpool diviene la prima località balneare della Gran Bretagna completamente frequentata dalle classi popolari grazie alla presenza di stabilimenti balneari a basso costo; il grande e definitivo boom del turismo balneare si avrà poi negli anni ’50 e ’60. Stando così le cose, non ci si deve meravigliare nel sapere che in Gran Bretagna le spiagge sono più frequentate di quanto istintivamente si possa pensare a causa di un clima ben diverso da quello Mediterraneo, e che questo fenomeno socio-culturale sia stato indagato a livello fotografico da parte di fotografi della stessa Gran Bretagna, di questi cito quattro nomi. Un importante fotografo, che probabilmente ispirò i successivi fotografi, fu Tony Ray-Jones, scomparso prematuramente nel 1972, alla giovane età di 30 anni, il quale cercava di realizzare una “memoria fotografica” degli stereotipi del popolo inglese; il famoso fotoreporter Martin Parr, il quale pur ispirandosi al precedente, se ne differenzia per il suo modo di fare “satira sociale” col suo obiettivo; infine desidero menzionare David Hurn e Simon Roberts, quest’ultimo con fotografie di più ampio respiro, con fotografie più distaccate dal singolo individuo. In Italia numerosi sono i fotografi (ne cito solo qualcuno) che hanno realizzato nella loro lunga carriera immagini colte in località balneari (genericamente si parla di “beach photography” affine alla “street photography”), fotografie spesso uniche nel loro stile, come quello adottato da Franco Fontana, menziono Mimmo Jodice, Ferdinando Scianna (del quale mi onoro di averlo conosciuto personalmente), e Massimo Vitali, famoso fotografo (da alcuni inteso come “il fotografo delle spiagge”), soprattutto per le sue bellissime fotografie realizzate sui lidi (ma non solo), grazie alla presenza di strutture fisse sopraelevate a mò di soppalco, costruite appositamente nei lidi balneari per la realizzazione delle sue fotografie. Questo mio incipit, per introdurre il tema da me affrontato, quello della “beach photography”, con una serie di fotografie realizzate nelle spiagge della Sicilia Orientale, la maggior parte delle quali si trovano nei pressi di Taormina.
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Well, Gregory Peck really - a screen icon in his most iconic role.
Restored and coloured for you by internationally unknown restorer and all-round good egg, Billyfish Photographic Art
The Torre de Belém (in English: "Belém Tower") in the city of Lisbon’s district Belém on the northern bank of the Tejo river (in English: "Tagus river"), Lisbon, Portugal
Some background information:
The Torre de Belém, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent, is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. The tower was finished in 1519 and symbolizes Portugal's maritime and colonial power in early modern Europe. It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a prominent example of the Portuguese Manueline style, but it also incorporates other architectural styles, such as the minarets, which are inspired by Moorish architecture. The structure was built from lioz limestone and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (100 feet) four-storey tower.
Since 1983, the tower has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the Jerónimos Monastery. It is often portrayed as a symbol of Europe's Age of Discoveries and as a metonym for Portugal or Lisbon, given its landmark status. It has incorrectly been stated that the tower was built in the middle of the Tagus and now sits near the shore because the river was redirected after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. But in fact, the tower was built on a small island in the Tagus river near the Lisbon shore.
With an estimated population of almost 568,000 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within its metropolitan area, Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal. It is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. Situated on the northern shore of the Tejo river near its estuary, Lisbon’s port can be called at by ships of any size.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens). Although the first fortifications on Lisbon's castle hill are known to be no older than the 2nd century BC, recent archaeological finds have shown that Iron Age people already occupied the site from the 8th to 6th centuries BC. The Phoenicians and later the Carthaginians, are said to have called the place Alis Ubbo and used it as the only major natural harbor on the Iberian Atlantic coast. There are also evidences that Lisbon once was a Greek city, but its Greek name is unknown.
Under Roman rule, starting around 205 BC, the city was initially called Olisipo. In 48 BC, the town was granted Roman municipal rights and subsequently became known as Colonia Felicitas Iulia, growing into a larger town in the province of Lusitania. From 409 AD, barbarian tribes advanced onto the Iberian Peninsula from Gaul. During the late antique migration period, Alans, Suebi, Vandals, and Visigoths tried to occupy Lisbon.
In 719, Lisbon was conquered by Muslim Moors and later became part of the Emirate of Córdoba. The city, now known as al-Ushbuna, experienced its first major boom. During the Caliphate of Córdoba, the city was one of the most important ports, while Christian Galicians and Leonese repeatedly attempted to seize it. In 844, Vikings ravaged Lisbon and its surroundings.
In the 11th century, Lisbon was part of the Moorish Emirate of the Aftasids from Badajoz. Starting in 1093, Count Raymond of Armous, a younger son of Duke William I of Burgundy, was given rule over Galicia by King Alfonso VI of León. From there, he launched campaigns against the Moors in the south, temporarily managing to occupy Lisbon.
At the beginning of the 11th century, the south of the Iberian Peninsula was still under Moorish control. But in 1147, in the course of the so-called Reconquista, the Siege of Lisbon led to the city's final capture by the Portuguese under Alfonso I. In 1255, Lisbon became the capital city of the new Portuguese territory and in 1290, the first Portuguese university was founded in the town. During the last centuries of the Middle Ages, Lisbon expanded substantially and became an important trading post with both Northern European and Mediterranean cities.
When the Spaniards had expelled the Jews from Spanish territory, many of them fled to Lisbon. But even in Portugal they either had to convert to Christianity or leave. In 1506, an anti-semitic movement among the Old Christians of Lisbon culminated in a massacre lasting four days in which some 1,000 to 4,000 New Christian residents, converted descendants of Sephardic Jews, are estimated to have been killed.
Most of the Portuguese expeditions of the Age of Discovery set out from Lisbon during the period from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century, including Vasco da Gama's expedition to India in 1498. In the 16th century, Lisbon’s golden era began: The city was the European hub of commerce between Africa, India, the Far East and later, Brazil, and acquired great riches by exploiting the trade of spices, slaves, sugar, textiles and other goods. This period also saw the rise of the exuberant Manueline style in architecture, which left its mark in many 16th-century monuments, including the Belém Tower and the Jerónimos Monastery.
The succession crisis of 1580 initiated a sixty-year period of dual monarchy in Portugal and Spain under the Spanish Habsburgs. In 1589, Lisbon was the target of an incursion by the English Armada led by Francis Drake. The Portuguese Restoration War, which began with a coup d'état organised by the nobility and bourgeoisie in Lisbon in 1640 amd ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, restored Portuguese independence.
In the early 18th century, gold from Brazil allowed King John V to sponsor the building of several Baroque churches and theatres in the city. Prior to the 18th century, Lisbon had experienced several significant earthquakes: eight in the 14th century, five in the 16th century, and three in the 17th century. But the earthquake of 1755 was the most davastating one. It destroyed 85 percent of the city's structures, including the Ribeira Palace and the hospital Real de Todos os Santos. An an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Lisbon residents of a total population estimated of 200,000 to 275,000 wer killed. And in the coastal areas north of Lisbon even more people were killed by the following tsunami.
This catastrophic event shocked the whole of Europe and left a deep impression on its collective psyche. However, the city was rebuilt quickly and largely according to the plans of prime minister Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the 1st Marquis of Pombal. He decided to demolish what remained after the earthquake and rebuild the city centre in accordance with principles of modern urban design. It was reconstructed in an open rectangular plan with two great squares: the Praça do Rossio and the Praça do Comércio.
In the first years of the 19th century, Portugal was invaded by the troops of Napoléon Bonaparte, forcing Queen Maria I and Prince-Regent John to flee temporarily to Brazil. By the time the new King John VI returned to Lisbon, many of the buildings and properties were pillaged, sacked or destroyed by the invaders. The development of industry and commerce determined the growth of the city and Lisbon grew farther from the Tejo river.
In 1911, Lisbon refounded its university after centuries of inactivity. In the 20th century, the city was also the site of three revolutions. The first ond of 1910 brought an end to the Portuguese monarchy and established the highly unstable and corrupt Portuguese First Republic. The second one of 1926 ended the first republic and firmly established the Portuguese Second Republic. And the third revolution of 1974, the so-called Carnation Revolution, put an end to the right-wing regime and reformed the country to what it is still today, the Portuguese Third Republic.
Modern Lisbon is the political centre of the country and hosts the government, the National Assembly, the Supreme Court of Justice and the Armed Forces. It is also the residence of the head of state and the centre of Portuguese diplomacy, with ambassadors from 86 countries residing in the city, as well as representations from Taiwan and Palestine. About 2.96 million people, who live in the Lisbon metropolitan area (representing almost 28 % of the Portugal's population), make Lisbon the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula after Madrid and Barcelona.
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Shostakovich - 5 Preludes - No.3 in G major (Opus 2, No.2) - Part 2/5 Andante
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"Only the religious picture [icon] shows the full ontological power of the picture... in it we can see without doubt that a picture is not a copy of a copied being [as in Plato], but is in ontological communion with what is copied.
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Essential to an emanation is that what emanates is an overflow. What it flows from does not thereby become less. The development of this concept by Neoplatonic philosophy, which uses it to get beyond Greek substance ontology, is the basis of the positive ontological status of the picture. For if the original One is not diminished by the outflow of the many from it, this means that being increases.
It seems that the Greek fathers [of the Church] used this kind of Neoplatonic thinking in overcoming the Old Testament's hatred of images when it came to christology. They regarded the incarnation of God as a fundamental acknowledgement of the worth of visible appearance, and thus they legitimated works of art. In their overcoming the ban on images we can see the decisive event that enabled the development of plastic arts in the Christian West."
fragments from "Truth and Method" by Hans-Georg Gadamer
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mosaic icon of the Theotokos, temporary resting outside the Trinity church at Cheia Monastery
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The controversial monument in Riga's Victory park. Erected by the Soviets to commemorate the liberation of Latvia from the Nazis. Powerful iconic Soviet statues have become a divisive subject in the relatively new independent Latvia. By themselves, they are objects of beauty.
Nikon f6 with a Voigtlander 58mm F1.4 Nokton lens and Ektar 100 film.
American postcard by Classico San Francisco, Inc., no. 105-011. Photo: Twentieth Century-Fox. Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1955).
American film actress Jane Russell (1921-2011) was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. She became an icon with her first film role in Howard Hughes' The Outlaw (1943). Her biggest hit was the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) in which she played Dorothy Shaw opposite Marilyn Monroe's Lorelei Lee.
Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born in 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota. She was the only daughter of the five children of Geraldine (née Jacobi) and Roy William Russell. She had four younger brothers: Tom Russell, Kenny Russell, James H. Russell and Wally Russell. Her father had been a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and her mother was an actress with a road troupe. When Jane was two, her family moved to Southern California where her father worked as an office manager. Russell's mother arranged for her to take piano lessons. In addition to music, she was interested in drama and participated in stage productions at Van Nuys High School. Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father in his mid-40s, when she decided to work as a receptionist after graduation. She also modelled for photographers, and, at the urging of her mother, studied drama and acting with Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop and with acting coach Maria Ouspenskaya. In 1940, Jane Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul, Howard Hughes. She made her film debut in the Western The Outlaw (Howard Hughes, 1943), a story about Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) that went to great lengths to showcase Russell's voluptuous figure. The film was completed in 1941, but it was not released until 1943 in a limited release. Hughes' battles with the censors resulted in the film spending three years on the shelf before finally gaining wide release in a cut version in 1946. During that time, Russell was kept busy doing publicity and she became known nationally. The film and the controversy turned her into an icon. She was a popular pin-up photo with servicemen during World War II. Wikipedia cites Russell: "Sex appeal is good - but not in bad taste. Then it's ugly. I don't think a star has any business posing in a vulgar way. I've seen plenty of pin-up pictures that have sex appeal, interest, and allure, but they're not vulgar. They have a little art to them. Marilyn's calendar was artistic." Russell did not appear in another film until 1946 when she played Joan Kenwood in Young Widow (Edwin L. Marin, 1946) opposite Louis Hayward, released through United Artists. The film went over budget by $600,000 and was a box office failure. In 1947 Russell delved into music before returning to films. She sang with the Kay Kyser Orchestra on the radio and recorded two singles with his band. Then, she played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope in The Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod, 1948). The film was a sizeable box office hit, earning $4 million. She later also played Mike 'the Torch' Delroy opposite Hope in another Western comedy, Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin, 1952). It was also a hit. In between, Howard Hughes cast Russell opposite Robert Mitchum and Vincent Price in the Film Noir His Kind of Woman (1951). The film was originally directed by John Farrow in 1950 but would be re-shot by Richard Fleischer the following year. Russell did two more Film Noirs: The Las Vegas Story (Robert Stevenson, 1952) with Price and Victor Mature, and Macao (Josef von Sternberg, 1952) with Robert Mitchum. His Kind of Woman and Macao were minor hits but both involved so much re-shooting through the interference of Hughes that they lost money.
Most famously, Jane Russell played Dorothy Shaw in the hit musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953) opposite Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee. The film was a huge success, Russell's biggest hit since The Outlaw, making over $5 million. Brendon Hanley at AllMovie: "On the surface, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a brassy, garish, colourful musical comedy featuring two rather lightweight actresses, Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. Ultimately, however, director Howard Hawks uses the nature of the material and the glossy stars to an interesting, paradoxical effect. The film lacks strong masculine characters and any sort of traditional morality; it's dominated by the superficial. The two main characters are sex symbols who, in true Hawksian fashion, have their sex appeal turned on its head." Back at RKO, she was in Howard Hughes's production The French Line (Lloyd Bacon, 1954), a musical which also starred Gilbert Roland. The film's penultimate moment showed Russell in a form-fitting one-piece bathing suit with strategic cutouts, performing a then-provocative musical number titled 'Lookin' for Trouble'. Wikipedia: "In her autobiography, Russell said that the revealing outfit was an alternative to Hughes' original suggestion of a bikini, a very racy choice for a movie costume in 1954. Russell said that she initially wore the bikini in front of her "horrified" movie crew while "feeling very naked." The film earned $3 million. Hughes also produced Underwater! (John Sturges, 1955), an adventure film with Russell and Richard Egan at RKO. It made $2 million but because of its large cost was a financial flop. Her contract with Hughes eventually ended in February 1954. Russell co-starred with Clark Gable in The Tall Men (Raoul Walsh, 1955) at Fox, one of the most popular films of the year, with earnings of $6 million. Her own production company Russ-Field produced Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Richard Sale, 1955), a sequel to Blondes in which Russell starred alongside Jeanne Crain, for release through United Artists. It was not as successful as the original. Russell made Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray, 1956) with Cornel Wilde at Columbia and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (Raoul Walsh, 1956) at Fox, in the latter playing a role meant for Marilyn Monroe. None of these films was particularly successful. Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. Jane Russell starred in more than 20 films throughout her career. Her final film was Darker than Amber (Robert Clouse, 1970), a film adaptation of John D. MacDonald's suspense novel, starring Rod Taylor as Travis McGee. Russell often played cynical, 'tough broads,' and in 1971, she starred in the Broadway musical Company. In 1985, she published the autobiography 'Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours', in which she noted that she had an affair with John Payne in 1942. The affair ended when Jane realised that she was still in love with her high school sweetheart, football player Robert Waterfield, whom she married in April 1943. Russell married three times and adopted three children. Her first marriage with Bob Waterfield ended in divorce in 1968. Two months after her divorce, Russell married actor Roger Barrett; the marriage ended when he died of a heart attack only two months later in November 1968. She married real-estate broker John Calvin Peoples in 1974, living with him until his death from heart failure in 1999. Her three adopted children are Tracy Waterfield, Thomas Waterfield and Buck Waterfield. Russell was unable to have children, after a botched abortion in her teenage years left her infertile. Later, she opposed the use of abortion in any circumstance including rape or incest. She championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States. In 1955, she founded World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), the first international adoption program. Through her organisation, Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families. She retired to Santa Maria, California, after the death of her third husband in 1999 to be close to her youngest son. In 2006, at age 84, she put together a musical show entitled 'The Swinging Forties' that played twice a month at the Radisson Hotel. The show featured herself and about a dozen local Santa Maria residents, including a choir director, lay preacher and retired police officer. She formed the show out of boredom and because there was nothing much going on in town for the older folks to do. Jane Russell died at her home in Santa Maria of a respiratory-related illness in 2011. Although rumours circulated that she was buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery, Russell was in fact cremated at Santa Barbara Cemetery and her ashes were scattered at sea.
Sources: Brendon Hanley (AllMovie), Denny Jackson (IMDb), AllMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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