Married John Calvin Peoples in a "kaftan" ceremony in Santa Barbara, California.

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1989.

In 2006 (at age 84), Jane put together a musical show entitled "The Swinging Forties" that plays twice a month at the Radisson Hotel. The show features 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.

Retired to Santa Maria, California after the death of her third husband in 1999 to be close to her youngest son.

As a little girl Jane was a tomboy. She had four brothers: Tom, Kenny, Jamie and Wally.

Her three adopted children are Tracy, Thomas and Buck.

A born-again Christian decades before the term was coined, she held weekly Bible study at her home which was attended by some of the industry's biggest names.

Is portrayed by Marla Carlis in The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) (TV), by Renee Henderson in Blonde (2001) (TV), and by Erika Nann in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) (TV).

She and husband Bob Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy, on 2/15/52.

Measurements: 38D-25-36 (definitive for majority of her career), 36D-26-36 (during The Outlaw (1943)), 38D-25-39 (on set of The Paleface (1948) 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).

She and husband Bob Waterfield adopted a 15-month-old British boy, Tommy Kavanaugh, in December of 1952.

Went to Van Nuys High School (Los Angeles).

On 2 February 1967, Russell filed for divorce from Bob Waterfield; it was granted in July 1968.

Howard Hughes is reported to have said of her stardom, "There are two good reasons why men go to see her. Those are enough." (Source: quoted in the book "The Humour of Sex" by Robert Hale.)

Howard Hughes, in addition to designing airplanes, is said to have designed a "cantilever bra" to take care of her physical endowments.

Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" bu Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).

A political conservative, she sided publicly with an industry panel that urged the removal of certain provocative scenes in one of her films.

In the late 1930s she was a member of Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Workshop and attended Maria Ouspenskaya's Drama School for six months.

The troops in Korea named two embattled hills in her honor.

In 1955 she and husband 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).

Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families.

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.

As a little girl Jane was a tomboy

Has macular degeneration and wears hearing aids in both ears.

Leonardo DiCaprio visited Jane while filming The Aviator (2004) in order to find up close and personal what Howard Hughes was really like.

Attended the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.

Went to high school with James Dougherty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe`s first husband.

Bob Hope once introduced her as "the two and only Jane Russell".

Her breasts are the namesake for `The Jane Russell Peaks` in Alaska.

First husband Bob Waterfield was her high school sweetheart.

In the early 1950s, made a television commercial for Lustre Creme`s shampoo campaign.

Discovered by Howard Hughes working as a receptionist for his dentist.