1940s sex symbol Jane Russell dies at 89

Russel in movie Outlaw

Former Hollywood actress and sex symbol Jane Russell has died at the age of 89.
Some of her most memorable films include the The Paleface (1948) with Bob Hope, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) with Marilyn Monroe.
She died on Monday at her home in California of a respiratory-related illness, her daughter-in-law confirmed.
Russell was a pin-up girl in the 1940s and 1950s, but her film career had faded by the 1960s.
Russell had three husbands: Bob Waterfield, a UCLA All American, Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Rams quarterback,
Los Angeles Rams head coach, and Pro Football Hall of Fame member (married on April 24, 1943, then divorced in July 1968); actor Roger Barrett,
(married on August 25, 1968 through his death on November 18, 1968); and the real-estate broker John Calvin Peoples
(married January 31, 1974 through his death on April 9, 1999).