{"id":3422,"date":"2005-08-01T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:19:30","slug":"rosalind-russell-2-on-james-galanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Russell 2: on James Galanos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another excerpt from Life Is a Banquet<\/i><\/a>\"\" – another excerpt from the introduction written by her husband – this one made me cry. Rosalind Russell was responsible for launching the career of James Galanos, designer. She ended up giving him a shot … and not only did he run with it, he ran AWAY with it.<\/p>\n

Here is an unbelievably moving story, told by Freddie Brisson (Russell’s husband) about the special relationship between Russell and Galanos:<\/p>\n

In 1960, after she had the first mastectomy, Rosalind went to Galanos. He says it was the only time he ever saw her break down. She had come to his office, very crisp, very businesslike. “I’m going to tell you something nobody in the world knows except Freddie and my doctor. I’ve had my breast removed, and I want to keep it quiet. So long as I can be active, I don’t want to be thought a freak, I don’t want people looking at me in person or on the screen and wondering about my sex life.” (You have to consider the era. Women had not yet begun to go public about their mastectomies.)<\/p>\n

“I want you to start thinking in terms of how I can now be dressed,” Rosalind said to Jimmy, and then she began to take her clothes off. She started to cry, and he saw that she could hardly lift her left arm, it was so swollen, and he broke down too. From that day forward, he specially designed every piece of her clothing, and neither he nor his fitter ever told a soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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