During Howard Hughes’s censorship battles over The Outlaw, a Maryland judge upheld his state’s ban on the film with the remark that Jane Russell’s breasts “hung over the picture like a summer thunderstorm spread out over a landscape.”
As if to prove the point, when the movie was released, publicity genius Russell Birdwell hired skywriters to decorate the southern California skies with a pair of enormous circles with dots in their centers.
Source:
Boller, Paul F., and Ronald L. Davis. "Sexual Images." Hollywood Anecdotes. New York: Morrow, 1987. 393. Print.
Original Source Listed:
James Mason, Before I Forget (London: Hamilton, 1981), p. 294.
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