The Uninvited
1944
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Actress. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 3:25. Angel and the Badman (1947) 2 Videos. 89 Photos. Gail Russell was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 21, 1924. She remained in the Windy City, going to school until her parents moved to California when she was 14.
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The Tattered Dress. Seven Men From Now. The Unseen. The Uninvited. Laser Moon. Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour. El Paso. The Bachelor's Daughter. Duffy's Tavern. See Gail Russell full list of...
- Introvert with Crippling Shyness
- Discovered by Paramount in 1942
- Lifelong Stage Fright
- John Wayne Rumors
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
- Nervous Breakdown in 1945
- Angel and The Badman
- Angel and The Badman Receives Strong Reviews
- Wake of The Red Witch and Controversy
- Wake of The Red Witch
Gail Russell was born in Chicago in 1924 and named Elizabeth by her parents, George and Gladys Russell. She often visited her uncle's farm in Michigan, but even there, she remained alone with her charcoal and sketchpads. She was an introvert with a limited social life, unprepared for the big city. She once told a reporter that her shyness was so se...
The Russell family moved to Los Angeles when Gail was 14. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Russell told the story of when her parents asked her to wear an evening gown and try to look glamorous, a task she found challenging considering she had never worn makeup. Russell was a student at Santa Monica High School on vacation with her mothe...
Although the studio hired an acting coach, Russell’s stage fright was a problem from the start and was often discussed by her costars and the crews on the set as it interfered with filming. Nevertheless, she started her career with an explosion of films. Russell made her first film appearance at 19 in the 1943 film Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour. In 19...
Gail Russell's raven hair and enigmatic beauty were particularly suited to the ghost story plot of The Uninvited, her second film of 1944. Russell was again cast with Ray Milland, this time as his love interest. During filming, Russell’s stage fright was so great that one of her co-stars suggested she use alcohol to calm her nerves. More than one b...
In her next film, Russell starred in the well-received 1944 comedy Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, also starring Diana Lynn. The film is based on a book of the same name, written by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough. The book describes their jaunt through Europe in the 1920s when they were fresh out of college. Russell pla...
Also in 1945, Russell joined many famous actors of her time in Duffy's Tavern. After suffering from a nervous breakdown, she was forced to repeat her three-films-a-year routine. In 1946, Russell and Lynn revived their roles in Our Hearts Were Growing Up, the sequel to Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. This film was also well-received by audiences and ...
In 1947, Russell performed one of her most famous roles as the innocent Quaker love interest of John Wayne in Angel and the Badman. It was during filming that Wayne first noticed that Russell's struggle with alcohol outweighed her problems with shyness. As mentioned before, Wayne offered to help his costar with her fears and panic, and spent what m...
The film was critically well-received. The New York Timesreview stated, "John Wayne makes a grim and laconic, converted renegade, who is torn by love, a new faith and the desire for revenge on an arch enemy. Gail Russell, a stranger to Westerns, is convincing as the lady who makes him see the light." Angel and the Badmanwas an important film for Ru...
Gail Russell made three films in 1948, playing Gilly Johnson in Moonrise, Jean Courtland in Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and then to top off the year, a repeat performance as John Wayne's love interest. This time it was as Angelique Desaix inWake of the Red Witch. John Wayne received 10% of the gross from the movie, which entitled him to help choose ...
At the time of the filming of Angel and the Badman, John Wayne was married to Esperanza "Chata" Baur. Baur was convinced that her husband was having an affair with Russell. According to Ronald L. Davis in his John Wayne biography Duke, although Wayne openly admitted to affairs in the past, both Wayne and Russell firmly denied anything more than fri...
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TV Shows 1. Department. Acting 26. Gail Russell was an American screen and television actress who is probably best remembered for her role as Stella Meredith in the 1944 film The Uninvited.
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