Jane Russell

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. A buxom beauty of a film star, she could act but was rarely given the opportunity to do so. She was so breathtakingly attractive that her pairing with Marilyn Monroe in "gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is still a kitschy classic.

She started with a bang in the Howard Hughes drama "The Outlaw":

She did good work in "The Paleface," "His Kind of Woman," and "The Tall Men."



In later life, she became a spokesperson for the Playtex 18-Hour Bra, "for us full-figured gals."

For someone who was judged primarily for her appearance, she displayed great panache on camera. The best analysis of her career is here in the L.A. Times --