Death of Jane Russell

June 21, 1921 - February 28, 2011
Santa Maria, California | Age 89

Star of '40s and '50s films dies at 89
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JOHN ROGERS, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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...

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