HOLLYWOOD EVENTS

Hollywood Heritage presents

An Evening with Jane Russell

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

If you think you know Jane Russell, you’re in for some surprises. Come and meet the deeply religious beauty who adopted three children and founded World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), an organization to place children with adoptive families that pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.

Through her organization, World Adoption International Fund, Russell has placed 51,000 children with adoptive families. Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States.

A limited amount of Jane Russell’s 1986 autobiography Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours : An Autobiography will be available for sale at the event.

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Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn

2100 N. Highland Avenue

Hollywood (across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Refreshments available. FREE PARKING

Information: (323) 874-2276

Admission – Members: $5 Non-Members: $10

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM. SEATING IS LIMITED.

ADMISSION IS SOLD ONLY AT THE DOOR.

For more information, visit: www.hollywoodheritage.org

Hollywood Heritage, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the historic built environment in Hollywood and to education about the early film industry and the role its’ pioneers played in shaping Hollywood’s history.

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