"Actor: Jane Russell"

• Forever Marilyn Four Film Collection | DVD | (23/07/2012) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Marilyn Monroe forever stands alone as Hollywood's quintessential icon of sex appeal and timeless allure. Her breathy voice, voluptuous figure and wide-ranging talents catapulted her to superstardom, where she remains as legendary today as ever. Immortalized here in this must-own collection are four of her best and most popular films, showcase Marilyn's flawless beauty and captivating performances as they're meant to be seen. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell co-star as showgirls who set a course for love and laughter on board a luxury liner sailing to France.How To Marry A Millionaire:Marilyn, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall play three Manhattan models who concoct a wild scheme to meet the men of their dreams.The Seven Year Itch:Marilyn plays a seductive starlet who tests the wedding vows of a married man when she moves into the apartment above him.Some Like It Hot:Marilyn is the lead singer of an all-girl band joined by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, who are posing as women to hide from the mob.

• The Grapes of Wrath | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £9.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (9.18%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This American classic based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Tom Joad (Henry Fonda in an Oscar- Nominated role) and his family as they escape the Depression-era Oklahoma dust bowls for the promised land of California. But the arduous trip and harsh living conditions offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face.

• The Paleface | DVD | (27/04/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and sneering like a kid playing cowboy in a flamboyant costume apparently stolen from the Oklahoma! road show. The Paleface is one of his best films, and the unflappable Russell is a great match. Theme song "Buttons and Bows" (which Hope delivers with a clowning mock twang) won an Oscar®, and the 1948 film spawned a sequel (Son of Paleface, costarring Roy Rogers and Trigger) and a remake (The Shakiest Gun in the West with Don Knotts). --Sean Axmaker

• Forever Marilyn Four Film Collection | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.19

  Marilyn Monroe forever stands alone as Hollywood's quintessential icon of sex appeal and timeless allure. Her breathy voice, voluptuous figure and wide-ranging talents catapulted her to superstardom, where she remains as legendary today as ever. Immortalized here in this must-own collection are four of her best and most popular films, presented on Blu-ray - the perfect format to showcase Marilyn's flawless beauty and captivating performances as they're meant to be seen.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell co-star as showgirls who set a course for love and laughter on board a luxury liner sailing to France.How To Marry A Millionaire:Marilyn, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall play three Manhattan models who concoct a wild scheme to meet the men of their dreams.The Seven Year Itch:Marilyn plays a seductive starlet who tests the wedding vows of a married man when she moves into the apartment above him.Some Like it Hot:Marilyn is the lead singer of an all-girl band joined by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, who are posing as women to hide from the mob.

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (09/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos' old story from the 1920s about a pair of single women in search of husbands, gets a makeover in Howard Hawks' 1953 musical. The remake stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as two friends who go to Paris looking for mates. The film is charged by Hawks's stylish snap, a famous set piece or two (Monroe descending that staircase while singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"), Russell's wit and songs by Leo Robin and Jule Styne. The film may largely be a fluff project best remembered as a showcase for its leading actresses, but then Monroe and Russell rarely got such extended opportunities to prove that they were more than cinematic icons.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Spot - Where's Spot | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Join in Spots' 25th Anniversary celebrations with this wonderful special 'Silver Edition' DVD. Episodes comprise: 1. Where's Spot 2. Spot Plays Hide And Seek 3. Spot's First Picnic 4. Spot's Treehouse 5. Spot Goes To The Playground 6. Spot In The Garden 7. Spot's First Walk 8. Spots Bath 9. Spot's Favourite Toy

• Marilyn Monroe: The Marilyn Collection - 17 Fabulous Films | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £79.99   |  Saving you £-34.32 (N/A%)   |  RRP £45.67

  Titles Comprise: All About Eve As Young As You Feel Bus Stop Don't Bother to Knock Gentlemen Prefer Blondes How to Marry a Millionaire Let's Make it Legal Let's Make Love Love Nest The Misfits Monkey Business Niagara River of No Return The Seven Year Itch Some Like it Hot There's No Business Like Show Business We're Not Married

• Double Dynamite | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bank assistant Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) is too poor to marry his sweetheart Mildred Goodhue (Jane Russell) but one day he jumps into a fracas and saves 'Hot Horse Harris' a big shot bookie from a beating. When the bookie gives Johnny an extremely generous reward for saving his skin Johnny's first thought is that he can now afford to wed his sweetheart... until he discovers that by coincidence the money he has been given just happens to match a mysterious shortage at his bank! Johnny asks his pal Emile (Groucho Marx) an eccentric waiter to get him out of his mess... but will the comic antics of Emile leave Johnny in even deeper trouble?

• The Pale Face | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £9.91   |  Saving you £0.08 (0.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Like Merry Xmas and Happy New Year...They belong together! The Wild West has never been wilder - or funnier - than in this classic six-shootin' farce which introduced the Academy Award winning song ""Buttons and Bows."" In one of his most popular roles Bob Hope plays ""Painless"" Peter Potter a timid correspondence school dentist earninga shaky living in the lawless West. When ""Painless"" is seduced into agreeing to a quickie marriage by the voluptuous Jane Russell he thinks h

• Montana Belle | DVD | (16/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When the infamous Dalton Boys fall out with the sharp shooting Belle Starr (Jane Russell), she decides to form her own outlaw gang and quickly becomes the scourge of the Oklahoma Territories with a big bounty on her beautiful head.Disguising herself as a widowed showgirl, she hides away at the Birdcage gambling parlour and saloon, intending to rob the place at the first opportunity. But what Belle hasn't reckoned on is falling in love with the saloon owner Tom Bradfield (George Brent) - or the Dalton Boys riding into town looking for revenge...

• Rob Brydon Live / Annually Retentive - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Join Rob Brydon and team captains Jane Moore and Dave Gorman for a double dosage of hilarity in this box set containing series 1 and 2 of the off-beat panel show where what happens off set is just as amusing as what happens on it!

• Life Is Sweet | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £19.93   |  Saving you £-6.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Life is Sweet, Mike Leigh's 1990 snapshot of the suburban family condition at the tail end of the Thatcher era, is often depressing and occasionally harrowing. It is also ultimately joyous, not just for the sharpness of Leigh's satire--the script was improvised with and by the cast--but also for the real affection that binds the family together. Through a series of minor crises, channels of communication silted up by the daily grind and terminal self-absorption are gradually eased open and the film ends on a note of genuine hope. As parents Wendy and Andy, Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent give virtuoso performances: two adults who use fantasy, mundane work and a stream of banal chatter to keep reality at bay before a freak kitchen accident forces them to stop and take stock. They have two daughters to perplex them: one a plumber (Claire Skinner) and the other an angry anorexic (Jane Horrocks, unsparing in a gut-wrenching bulimic scene). Timothy Spall is hilarious as family friend Aubrey, a would-be restaurateur whose efforts to establish a gourmet eatery in Enfield collapse in hopeless, drunken farce. This is not an overtly political film, but the sense of a stake being driven through the heart of the 1980s enterprise culture is unmistakeable. Inspiring. --Piers Ford

• Marilyn Monroe - The Best Of Marilyn | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £17.58   |  Saving you £7.41 (42.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Celebrate the 80th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe with the delightful 4 disc boxed set featuring: 1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 2. The Seven Year itch 3. How To Marry A Millionaire 4. Marilyn Monroe - The Final Days For individual synopses' please refer to the individual products.

• The Grapes Of Wrath | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £7.53   |  Saving you £5.46 (72.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen) a neighbor now nearly mad with grief tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the preying land agents who have plowe

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (86.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this musical spectacle, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are the infamous 'Two Little Girls from Little Rock'; Dorothy - the sassy one looking for true love, and Lorelei - the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire.

• How To Marry A Millionaire / Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How To Marry A Millionaire: Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to

• 3 Classics Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 10 - Road To Bali / Basin Street Revue / Forbidden Music | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Road To Bali: Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour team up in their sixth ""Road"" picture Road To Bali which was the only film in the series to be shot in color. Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie for her affections. Of course the boys run into the usual perils such as cannibals

• The Outlaw | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £4.93   |  Saving you £-0.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Howard Hughes with the assistance of Howard Hawks directed this racy version of the Pat Garrett vs Billy The Kid story. The publicity campaign surrounding the film's release was a masterpiece. Armed with stills of 19-year-old Jane Russell revealing a remarkable dcolletage (while stopping to pick up a pair of milk pails!) producer/director Howard Hughes spent tens of thousands of dollars purposely to agitate the censors and arouse public indignation. He released the film independently in San Francisco in 1943 after United Artists refused to distribute it; it was quickly closed down by civic groups. Meanwhile legendary publicist Russell Birdwell leased thousands of billboards from coast to coast for three years plastering a suggestive photo of the scantily clad Russell reclining on a bed of hay gun in hand. By 1946 when Hughes finally re-released the film audiences flocked to theatres: Jane Russell was now a Hollywood star and you can see why!

• The Lost Weekend | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £31.98   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  "I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk." These words, and the serious message behind them, were still potent enough in 1945 to shock audiences flocking to The Lost Weekend. The speaker is Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a handsome, talented, articulate alcoholic. The writing team of producer Charles Brackett and director Billy Wilder pull no punches in their depiction of Birnam's massive weekend bender, a tailspin that finds him reeling from his favorite watering hole to Bellevue Hospital. Location shooting in New York helps the street-level atmosphere, especially a sequence in which Birnam, a budding writer, tries to hock his typewriter for booze money. He desperately staggers past shuttered storefronts--it's Yom Kippur, and the pawnshops are closed. Milland, previously known as a lightweight leading man (he'd starred in Wilder's hilarious The Major and the Minor three years earlier), burrows convincingly under the skin of the character, whether waxing poetic about the escape of drinking or screaming his lungs out in the D.T.'s sequence. Wilder, having just made the ultra-noir Double Indemnity, brought a new kind of frankness and darkness to Hollywood's treatment of a social problem. At first the film may have seemed too bold; Paramount Pictures nearly killed the release of the picture after it tested poorly with preview audiences. But once in release, The Lost Weekend became a substantial hit, and won four Oscars: for picture, director, screenplay, and actor. --Robert Horton

• Hot Blood | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £6.86   |  Saving you £6.13 (89.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dramatic musical directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Russell and Wilde as a gypsy couple whose marriage was prearranged by their relatives. Gypsy girl who lives by decamping with marriage settlements from wealthy men meets her match in the handsome younger brother of a gypsy king.