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While filming their first film together, His Kind of Woman, Bob and Jane got along like old buddies.  From her stand-in and friend Carmen Cabeen, Russell was already well acquainted with some of Bob’s more depraved antics and she had prepared herself for his “shocking side,” but the fact that he was also so “intellectual, gentle, caring” came as a most pleasant surprise. She would rave about his astounding command of the English language–even as he would tell her she was the most inarticulate girl he knew.  He would tease her about her God-fearing ways, but he understood she was no Loretta Young, wallowing in piety.  He loved to tell the one about the pestering reporter who couldn’t believe a girl with her “image” read the Bible and went to church each Sunday.  “Hey Buddy,” she told him, “Christians have big breasts, too.“  She was good-natured, generous, strong-minded when she had to be, a stand-up guy.  Mitchum nicknamed her “Hard John.“  They became fast friends.  "I think she really adored Bob, loved him deeply, but without any hankypanky.  Because she’s a very straight girl. And he loved her.  It was just a marvelous combination,” commented Vincent Price.

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FEMME FATALES OF THE 1940s & 1950s (insp)

Elsa Lanchester as The Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | dir. James Whale

Natalie said later her favorite scene from Rebel was one between herself and Dean that was cut from the film: “It was in the car. I was waiting for him and he comes up and we talk to each other. There was a section of the scene where I imply that I’ve sort of been around, that I’m not really pure. I say to him, ‘Do you think that’s bad?’ And he says, ‘No, I just think it’s lonely. It’s the loneliest time.’ I thought it was a wonderful line—right on the cutting room floor.”

She hate me. Like others.