Jane Russell has died

[Flaxbee]

LOS ANGELES — 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/jane-russell-dies_n_829481.html

[Graybeard]

1. My favorites are the "Paleface" movies.

Jane Russel was a very able comedy foil to Bob Hope in

The Paleface (1948) and Son Of Paleface (1952).

RIP Jane.

[LeftinOH]

2. She was a nasty right-wing shrew:

A direct quote from her:

Russell was at times a prominent Republican Party member.... She has described her struggles with alcoholism, commenting in her later life:

"These days I am a teetotalling, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist."

also-

Because of early back street abortions, Russell herself was unable to have children and in 1955 she founded World Adoption International Fund, an organization to place children with adoptive families and which pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Russell

[Bake]

3. Stunning? If you like brunettes, I suppose ...

She's really kinda average, in my eye.

Bake