Jane Russell, the busty brunette who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 Western 'The Outlaw', has died of respiratory failure, her family said today.

HOLLYWOOD great Maureen O’Hara has spoken of her dream of finding and developing young Irish stars of the screen at a new drama centre which is to be built in her honour in her adopted west Cork home village.

ALMOST all her contemporaries from Hollywood’s Golden Era have passed away.

Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat, has died in the US. He was 90.

Vincent Sherman, who directed – and romanced – Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the US in the 1940s and ’50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.

HOLLYWOOD legend Audrey Hepburn has topped a list of the 100 most beautiful women of all time.

THE buzzwords on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards were “festive” and “glamorous,” with many celebrities opting for sleek, 1940s-style looks, right down to the Rita Hayworth-style peekaboo hairstyle favoured by Debra Messing and Portia de Rossi.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford has dealt a blow to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) movement by becoming spokeswoman for fur giant Blackglama.

Jude Law is being lined up to play Hollywood legend Errol Flynn in a new blockbuster movie.