You can thank Jane Russell for “Sucker Punch,” every Roger Corman jigglefest, the Catwoman outfit Halle Berry was poured in and just about any other body-baring costume that a Hollywood actress has shimmied into over the past 70 years. The buxom pinup beauty who helped push the envelope in on-screen sensuality died on Monday at the age of 89 at her home in Santa Maria, California.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Times reported that Russell had suffered from respiratory problems and died after a short illness. The actress made her biggest splash in her first role in 1943’s “The Outlaw,” a Howard Hughes-produced film that played up her sexuality in a marketing campaign that focused on her voluptuous figure.<\/p>\n
In fact, the iconic publicity still of Russell posing in a low-cut top while leaning back on a bale of hay \u2014 her left arm cocked on her hip and her pouty lips and ample bosom prominent \u2014 created a sensation and challenged the strict morality rules of Hollywood’s production code.<\/p>\n
Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, she moved to Southern California with her family as an infant and started working as a part-time model after graduating from high school. She was discovered by one of Hughes’ casting agents amid a search for a beauty with a curvy figure to play Billy the Kid’s love interest Rio McDonald in “The Outlaw.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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