Biography
Distinctive Features
Her beautiful body.
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Her beautiful face.
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 "I was possessed with an agonizing kind of self-consciousness where I felt my insides tightening into a knot, where my face and hands grew clammy, where I couldn`t open my mouth, where I felt impelled to turn and run if I had to meet new people. When my parents had guests, I would run, get under the piano and hide there." "Everything happened so fast. I was a sad character. I was sad because of myself. I didn`t have any self-confidence. I didn`t believe I had any talent. I didn`t know how to have fun. I was afraid. I don`t exactly know of what - of life, I guess."
Career
Trivia
A talented artist, she starting sketching at the age of 5 and later grew into a respectable oil painter.
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In 1930, she lived with her parents George and Gladys Russell at 5306 S. Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
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Her blue-eyed, dark beauty was frequently compared to Hedy Lamarr throughout much of her career.
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Suffered paralyzing stage fright during the filming of The Uninvited (1944) and suffered a nervous breakdown following its completion. In the role of Stella, the song "Stella by Starlight," which came from the film, is forever associated with Gail.
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Her death certificate and the California State Death Record shows her date of death as August 27, 1961. Many sources give her date of death as August 26, possibly because her body, found on August 27, had been dead for at least a day. But August 27 is the official date of death.
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Her brother, George Russell, who was five years older than Gail, became a musician.
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In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi and Renata Marini. She was also dubbed once by Dhia Cristiani in Wake of the Red Witch (1948).
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Jane Fonda studied up on Russell`s life in order to play an alcoholic, once promising actress in The Morning After (1986).
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Attended Van Nuys High School and was in some of the same classes as actress Jane Russell.
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