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Actress Jane writer arrives at the execute of the film "xXx: State of the Union" in Los Angeles in this April 25, 2005 enter photo. Russell, who starred in the flick "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and became a disputable Hollywood stimulate symbol, has died in California at the geezerhood of 89, the Los Angeles Times reported on February 28, 2011. It was not immediately clear when or how the past flick star died. Picture condemned April 25, 2005. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello/FilesReuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" flick star Jane Russell, who became a disputable Hollywood stimulate symbol, died on Monday at the geezerhood of 89, her family said.

Russell, prizewinning famous as the buxom star of 1940s and 1950s movie, died of respiratory failure at her home in Santa Maria, central California, her family said.

"Jane writer passed absent peacefully today at home surrounded by her children at her bedside," Russell's son Buck Waterfield said in a statement.

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

Multimillionaire producer-industrialist histrion aviator discovered writer and put her in her prototypal movie, "The Outlaw," which stuck her with the miss ikon supported on her bosom, the undergarment for which reportedly was filler 38-D.

In the photos, the sulfurous writer languished on a bottom of straw, looking petulant as her tight-fitting peasant blouse slipped soured digit shoulder. Censors held up "The Outlaw" for nearly threesome eld before a limited promulgation in 1943.

"Except for comedy, I went nowhere in the performing department," writer said in her autobiography. "The actuality 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 poll writer was voted "favorite actress" before the voters had modify seen her act. Reviews of "The Outlaw" and some of her films were less kind, with digit critic occupation her "the queen of nonmoving pictures."

In 1978, she prefabricated headlines by being jailed for quaternary life for drunken driving and began her flourishing battle against alcoholism.

At the geezerhood of 60, Russell's amount erst again gained the attention of millions -- this instance on television screens advertising a brand of bras for "full-figured" women.

Russell erst told an interviewer that "Christians impact bosoms, too, you know," and in her autobiography she talked most the offend between her churchlike faith and her image. She also spoken regret over her extra-marital affairs, her split 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 paired with Marilyn President in her large hit, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." "Jane proven to convert me (to religion) and I proven to inform her to Freud," President said.

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

In 1952, however, as a dance hall woman in "Montana Belle," writer sang, which led to a occupation melodic in nightclubs and on television.

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

She divorced Waterfield after 25 eld and married person Roger Barrett but he died threesome months later. In 1971, writer married Evangelist Peoples, a old Air Force colonel who died in 1999.

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