Lillian Russell

References: Lillian Russell (http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/RusslL.html). Smith reprised her Kelly Garrett role in a short cameo in the 2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle feature film. On her passing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922, Russell was interred in the Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. Smith has two children, Spencer Margaret and Gaston, from her marriage to Richmond. She performed with a variety of opera companies including the company of the Casino Theater in New York and the company of Weber and Fields. Smith has been married four times; to actors Roger Davis (1972-1975) and Dennis Cole (1978-1981), to filmmaker Tony Richmond (1981-1989), and to surgeon Brad Allen (since 1997). Among her most well-known roles were in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience and The Sorcerer as well as Jacques Offenbach's The Princess of Trebizonde, The Brigands, and The Grand Duchess. Since 1985, Smith has designed and promoted a clothing line for Kmart.

For years, Russell was the foremost singer of operettas in the U.S. Smith currently has a reoccurring role in the television series The District. For forty years, she was the companion of businessman "Diamond Jim" Brady who showered her with extravagant gifts of diamonds and gemstones. In 1989, Smith had the title role in Christine Cromwell, a mystery television series which only lasted one season. Since her first appearance at Tony Pastor's she was also the subject of a great deal fanfare in the newsmedia. Smith has also appeared in over two dozen television movies and miniseries. Not only was her voice celebrated but her beauty caused quite a stir among the men and the women of the audience. Smith was the only female lead to remain with the series for its complete run.

Russell's appearance caused such a stir that she stayed on with Pastor and starred in some of his comic operas. Smith is best known for the role of Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels (1976-1981), a light-hearted action series about three beautiful women who worked as private investigators. Tony Pastor, known as the father of vaudeville, was responsible for some of the biggest stars in show business. She attended Trinity University and the University of San Antonio before deciding on an acting career. In 1879, under the new guise of "Lillian Russell", Helen made her first appearance on the august stage at Tony Pastor's Theater. Jaclyn Ellen Smith was born in Houston, Texas. This would serve as an inauspicious beginning to a dazzling career. Jaclyn Smith (born October 26, 1947) is an American television actress.

At the age of 18, she and her mother left for New York where Helen was offered a role in the chorus of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. Little is known of her early life except that she had some musical training in Chicago. Born in Clinton, Iowa in 1861, Helen Louise Leonard would become one of the most famous and beautiful actresses of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard) (December 4, 1861 - June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer.