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Howard Hughes: Outlaw
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[One] of Hughes’ film productions, The Outlaw, is released. It becomes controversial for its sexually explicit advertising and content, both featuring the barely covered bosom of its star Jane Russell. During the production, Hughes was obsessed with a minor flaw in one of Russell's blouses, and wrote a detailed memorandum on how to fix the problem. He contended that fabric bunched up two seams, giving the distressing appearance (to Hughes, at least) of two nipples on each of Russell's breasts. He designs a complicated cantilevered bra to show them off to best effect, but unbeknownst to him, she never wears it because it is so uncomfortable.
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His father was the outlaw wildcatter Howard (Bo) Robard Hughes; his mother, the neurotic Dallas heiress Allene Gano. He would always be half outlaw, defying justice; half fragile, self-centered neurasthenic. Two men who helped shape his character were his grandfather, the monomaniac Iowa Judge Felix Hughes, and his brilliant Jekyll-and-Hyde uncle, the celebrated best-selling novelist and Broadway playwright Rupert Hughes.
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Two other Hughes films, “The Front Page” (1931) and “Scarface” (1932), received critical acclaim, but his film “The Outlaw” (1941), starring buxom Jane Russell, pushed the erotic envelope of the day and was generally dismissed by the media. As one wag summarized, a Hughes movie is “rich in entertainment, low on philosophy and message, and packed with sex and action.”
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