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Jane Russell Trivia
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- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1989.
- A born-again Christian decades before the term was coined, Russell held weekly Bible study at her home which were attended by some of the industry's biggest names.
- Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell".
- Measurements: 38D-25-36 (definitive for majority of her career), 36D-26-36 (during "The Outlaw"), 38D-25-39 (on set of "Paleface" in 1948), 38 1/2D-25 1/2-38 1/2 (for "Photoplay" pin-up in 1953), 39D-26 1/2-37 1/2 (at her bustiest in mid-1950s), 37-27-37 (self-described in 1990), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Unable to bear children, Russell 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.
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