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Gail Russell
Actress
Female
Born
Sep 21, 1924
Hometown
Chicago
Died
Aug 27, 1961
Death Place
Brentwood, Los An...
Other Names
Russell, Elizabet...
Gail Russell was an American film and television actress.
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on September 21, 1924.
TEENAGE
1942
17 Years Old
She was born Elizabeth L. Russell to George and Gladys (Barnet) Russell in Chicago, Illinois, and then moved to the Los Angeles, California, area when she was a teenager. Russell's extraordinary beauty brought her to the attention of Paramount Pictures in 1942.
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TWENTIES
1947
22 Years Old
She continued working after 1947, and married actor Guy Madison in 1949, but by 1950 it was well known that she had become a victim of alcoholism, and Paramount did not renew her contract.
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1954
29 Years Old
She was divorced by Madison in 1954 and, after a five-year absence, returned to work in a co-starring role with Randolph Scott in the western Seven Men from Now (1956), produced by her friend Wayne, and had a substantial role in The Tattered Dress (1957).
THIRTIES
1957
32 Years Old
On July 5, 1957, she was photographed by a Los Angeles Times photographer after she drove her convertible into the front of Jan's coffee shop at 8424 Beverly Blvd.
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She appeared in two more films after that but was not able to control her addiction, and on August 26, 1961, Russell was found dead in her apartment in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, at the age of 36.
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