John Wayne Gail Russell Angel And The Badman Publicity Photo 1947-2012 #3
by David Lee Guss
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John Wayne Gail Russell Angel And The Badman Publicity Photo 1947-2012 #3
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Gail Russell was yet another casualty of "Tinsel Town," becoming a hopeless alcoholic.
(Two years later she returned to co-star with Duke in "Wake of the Red Witch.")
Duke's favorite screen writer, James Edward Grant, directed his first and only directorial effort. Grant was also an alcoholic.
Russell's last film appearance was in the Wayne produced, Burt Kennedy written and Bud Boetticher directed "Seven Men From Now" (1957).
She died partly from malnutrition, four years later at 37, in bed surrounded by empty alcohol bottles.
Russell was mortifyingly shy, a peculiar affliction for a movie actress whose doe eyed face was blown up 30 feet on the silver screen.
Her first film was playing Stella in the ghost story, "The Uninvited" (1944).
Victor Young composed a haunting theme, "Stella By Starlight," which has become a classic. Perhaps because I have listened to jazz while composing these notes, I have picked Charlie Parker's rendition of "Starlight."
"Bird" is backed up, at his request, by a full orchestra of strings which offends some purists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bST3qI7N_I
You Tube has vocal versions by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day and Connie Francis.
@2012 David Lee Guss Film homage, JW & Gail Russell, publicity photo, Angel & the Badman, 1947-2012
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