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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" flick star Jane Russell, who became a disputable tone sex symbol, died on Monday at the age of 89, her kinsfolk said.

Russell, prizewinning known as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory failure at her bag in Santa Maria, bicentric California, her kinsfolk said.

"Jane writer passed away peacefully today at bag enclosed by her children at her bedside," Russell's son author Waterfield said in a statement.

Russell, who after in chronicle was the "full-figured girl" in broadcasting undergarment ads, was at her prizewinning in comedies that, subtly or not, spoofed her sexpot ikon and focused on her figure.

Multimillionaire producer-industrialist histrion aviator unconcealed writer and place her in her prototypal movie, "The Outlaw," which cragfast her with the sexpot ikon based on her bosom, the undergarment for which reportedly was filler 38-D.

In the photos, the sulfurous writer languished on a bed of straw, hunting petulant as her tight-fitting Goth blouse slipped off digit shoulder. Censors held up "The Outlaw" for nearly threesome years before a restricted promulgation in 1943.

"Except for comedy, I went nowhere in the performing department," writer said in her autobiography. "The truth is that, more ofttimes than not, I've been unhappy most the pictures I've been in."

The promotional material was so striking that in digit enquiry writer was voted "favorite actress" before the voters had modify seen her act. Reviews of "The Outlaw" and some of her films were inferior kind, with digit critic calling her "the challenger of motionless pictures."

In 1978, she prefabricated headlines by being jailed for four life for drunken dynamical and began her flourishing effort against alcoholism.

At the age of 60, Russell's amount erst again gained the attention of millions -- this time on broadcasting screens advertising a sort of bras for "full-figured" women.

Russell erst told an interviewer that "Christians have bosoms, too, you know," and in her autobiography she talked most the conflict between her religious establishment and her image. She also spoken regret over her extra-marital affairs, her divorce and her alcoholism.

Russell was dropped June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, and grew up in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.

Bob Hope, who erst introduced the actress as "the two and only Miss Russell," teamed with her in 1948 in the Western spoof "The Paleface," which led to a sequel.

In 1953 writer matched with Marilyn Monroe in her large hit, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." "Jane proven to modify me (to religion) and I proven to introduce her to Freud," Monroe said.

Russell also had a impact with adventurer Gable in "The Tall Men" in 1955. But some of her movies were apace forgotten.

In 1952, however, as a diversion hall girl in "Montana Belle," writer sang, which led to a career melodic in nightclubs and on television.

By her own account, Russell's wedlock to sport hero Bob Waterfield was tempestuous. They had no biological children, cod to an incompetent back-alley failure writer underwent in her youth, and instead adopted threesome children.

She divorced Waterfield after 25 years and mated actor Roger Barrett but he died threesome months later. In 1971, writer mated John Peoples, a old Air Force colonel who died in 1999.

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