By Rene Torres
It was not Jane Russell that wasn’t welcomed in Brownsville, but rather the western movie she stared in, “The Outlaw.” Local church groups and people around the country did not like the idea that so much emphasis was placed on Russell’s … ah, “assets.”
In 1941, Howard Hughes, the producer of the movie, felt that the camera did not do justice to Russell’s curvaceous “attributes,” so he used his engineering skills to design a bra to allow for more bosom to be exposed, and that was the source of controversy.
After much debate, the movie was released to the theaters in 1943 but pulled from the scene after one week due to violations of the Production Code.
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