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"Glamour without the human element isn't very substantial stuff . . . alone it doesn't last long" *
By Jane Russell
NOW don't get me wrong. I'm glad I'm working in pictures. I've a career many girls would be thrilled to have. But can't a gal have her pet peeves even though she wouldn't want any other kind of job?
To begin with, I'm the kind of person who never goes for the taffy pulling routine. Flattery gets nowhere with me. I know what I'm like and I'm just about the same as I always was. I've tried to be objective about myself, to know what my faults are, and to harbor no phony illusions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to understand why some people are inclined to butter up a star. Why all the fuss about us? We're just like anyone else — or at least we'd like to be. Yet, we get so much attention, so many compliments it's rather hard for us to get to know people well. We're like anyone in that we want to believe the nice things we hear, but we can't help wondering just how much of the "You're wonderful" routine is on the level.
Most of us who work in pictures can add two and two and come up with four — so we've had a habit of believing about a quarter of what's said to us. I remember one incident that proves that we can be a lot happier if we don't swallow too much bait.
A star was being given the royal carpet act by a visitor on the set one day. I watched him (Please turn to page 59)
Jane, as a "bat girl," giving the umpires a bad time of it during recent "Out Of This World" charity baseball game played in Hollywood.
Robert Mitchum with Jane in "His Kind Of Woman," an RKO picture. Jane leaves glamour at the studio, never brings it home with her.
"Nor do I actually enjoy posing for certain publicity stills," says Jane. "That era has done a fade so far as I'm concerned."
Jane and Bob in "His Kind Of Woman." This torrid team is also co-starred in "Macao," another RKO film with Jane as bad girl.