Jane Russell's career in pictures

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Tue 1 Mar 2011 07.14 EST First published on Tue 1 Mar 2011 07.14 EST

• Jane Russell in a bathing suit as she stands on rocks near the ocean in 1942

  Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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• Russell entertains American troops in 1942

  Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

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• A publicity photograph for the film The Outlaw which eventually went on general release in 1946 after problems with the censor and a groundbreaking publicity campaign by Howard Hughes

  Photograph: Reuters

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• Russell with her first husband, Cleveland Rams American football player Bob Waterfield, at Rams practice in 1945

  Photograph: Allan Grant/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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• Russell poses for artist Zoë Mozert, who makes a chalk drawing for the infamous publicity poster for The Outlaw

  Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

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• A 1946 Los Angeles newspaper advertisement for The Outlaw. Hughes was accused of violating the standards of good taste in his advertising of the film

  Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

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• Russell starred with Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948)

  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount

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• A publicity still from 1950

  Photograph: John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images

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• Russell with Hope and Bing Crosby in a rehearsal for Hope's NBC radio show in Los Angeles in 1950

  Photograph: Murray Garrett/Getty Images

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• Russell with Robert Mitchum in His Kind Of Woman (1951)

  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/RKO Radio Pictures

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• Russell adjusts her makeup alongside Marilyn Monroe, drinking a Coke, during a break from posing for publicity stills to promote their film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953

  Photograph: Ed Clark/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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• Russell, Charles Coburn and Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/20 Century Fox

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• Russell surrounded by a large crowd in 1954

  Photograph: Frank Worth/Getty Images

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• Russell during A Special Tribute to Howard Hughes in 1977

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

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• Russell attends the 80th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak theatre in 2008

  Photograph: Jeff Vespa/WireImage

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