Some Like It Hot (1959)
Jane Russell was one of the biggest sex symbols of the 40s and 50s. She was at the center of a several-year spanning controversy concerning her first movie, Howard Hughes ' The Outlaw (1943), in which Hughes, at the height of the Production Code era, exploited her voluptuous figure on his film as much as he could. Appearing in some of the biggest box office hits of her time, she also worked with screen legends such as Clark Gable , Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx . Then, in 1953, she starred in Howard Hawks ' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , having as co-star a then relatively unknown newcomer called Marilyn Monroe . The film went on to become a box office success, with both Russell and Monroe being praised for their performances, as well as immortalizing their handprints in front of the prestigious Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. As years went by, however, both the movie's notoriety and its top billed star's fame waned away, crushed under the