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Gail Russell

Gail Russell
Gail Russell
Born: Sep 23, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: Aug 26, 1961 in Brentwood, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'50s
Major Genres: Drama, Romance
Career Highlights: Seven Men from Now, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Angel and the Badman
First Major Screen Credit: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
3 Videos for Gail Russell
Wake of the Red Witch (1949) Angel and the Badman (1947) The Uninvited (1944)
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Biography:

Sad-eyed actress Gail Russell was attending Santa Monica High School when she was spotted by a Paramount talent scout. Signed by the studio in 1942, Russell made her feature debut in Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1942). Her haunting, melancholy beauty was ideally suited for the ingénue role in the lavish Paramount supernatural yarn The Uninvited (1944).

She also displayed a natural comic sense as Emily Kimbrough in Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944) and Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946). In 1947, she was romantically involved with no fewer than three men: John Wayne, with whom she starred in Angel and the Badman (1947); director John Farrow, who guided her through Calcutta (1947); and actor Guy Madison, her first husband.

After several well-publicized arrests for drunken driving, Russell became a virtual recluse, making only a handful of TV and movie appearances in her last years. On August 27, 1961, Gail Russell was found dead in her Brentwood apartment. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.