"She was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts to pounding during World War II, the favorite movie star of a generation of young men long before she'd made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.
Such was the stunning beauty of Jane Russell, and the marketing skills of the man who discovered her, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.
Russell, surrounded by family members, died Monday at her home in the central coast city of Santa Maria. Her death from respiratory failure came 70 years after Hughes had put her on the path to stardom with his controversial Western The Outlaw. She was 89."
Jane Russell, star of '40s and '50s films, dies
John Rogers
March 1, 2011
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/03/01/jane_russell_star_of_40s_and_50s_films_dies/
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