Behind the sex-goddess image of Jane Russell was a very different woman

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The first sight moviegoers had of the devastating Jane Russell was the most celebrated cinematic roll in the hay of all time.

Russell, who died on Monday at the age of 89, was lying on a pile of straw, one hand up against her cloud of raven hair, her low-cut dress pulled off one shoulder so that it was stretched tight across her voluptuous breasts. Her other hand held a pistol.

‘Mean! Moody! Magnificent!’ screamed the publicity for her long-delayed and heavily-censored Hollywood debut in The Outlaw. ‘How’d you like to tussle with Russell?’ teased another of the ads.