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Jane Russell Trivia
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- Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families.
- Discovered by Howard Hughes working as a receptionist for his dentist.
- Married John Calvin Peoples in a "kaftan" ceremony in Santa Barbara, California.
- 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.
- In 1955, Russell and Bob Waterfield formed Russ-Field Productions. Under this banner, they made Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956), Run for the Sun (1956), and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).
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