Shokin News Blondes star Jane Russell Died

Jane Russell has made generations of red-blooded American men prefer brunettes, even when she played a blonde. From his first appearance in "Outlaw", in which her boyfriend Howard Hughes reportedly invented the bra, designed especially for her
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes stars Jane Russell, who became a controversial sex symbol in Hollywood, has died at age 89.

Russell, known as the voluptuous star of the 1940's and 1950's films, died of respiratory failure at his home in Santa Maria, central California.

The actress, who later in life was "full-figured girl in a television advertisement bra was in her best in comedies that subtly or not, fake her sexpot image and focus on her figure.