The Outlaw

…weeks working on Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw in 1940, finally removing himself from the production after he found Hughes’s meddling to be intolerable, and then happily moved on to the Jesse Lasky production of Sergeant York (1941), which would become his biggest hit. Gary Cooper starred as the eponymous hero…

…landing her first role, in The Outlaw (1943). Producer and director Howard Hughes had been looking for a curvaceous leading lady to portray Rio McDonald—a young woman caught in a love triangle with gunfighters Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday—and after an extensive search he picked Russell for the sultry…