
Carole Landis
Actress
Born: December 31, 1918 (29 years old)
Died: July 5, 1948
Place of birth: Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. She was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure. Landis was reportedly crushed when actor Rex Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her. Unable to cope any longer, on July 5, 1948, she died by suicide in her Pacific Palisades home by taking an overdose of Seconal. From Wikipedia.
Filmography (39)
- I Wake Up Screaming (1941, ★ 6.9)
- A Star Is Born (1937, ★ 7.2)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, ★ 7.5)
- One Million B.C. (1940, ★ 5.8)
- Orchestra Wives (1942, ★ 6.3)
- Moon Over Miami (1941, ★ 6.3)
- Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937, ★ 6.4)
- Topper Returns (1941, ★ 6.4)
- Secret Command (1944, ★ 6.5)
- Varsity Show (1937, ★ 6.5)
- Behind Green Lights (1946, ★ 5.5)
- Hollywood Hotel (1938, ★ 5.5)
- A Scandal in Paris (1946, ★ 6.4)
- Noose (1948, ★ 5.1)
- My Gal Sal (1942, ★ 5.6)
- Three Texas Steers (1939, ★ 4.9)
- Turnabout (1940, ★ 5.8)
- Road Show (1941, ★ 5.3)
- Blondes at Work (1938, ★ 6.1)
- Having Wonderful Crime (1945, ★ 6.3)
- A Day at the Races (1937, ★ 7.1)
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946, ★ 5.6)
- Boy Meets Girl (1938, ★ 6.5)
- When Were You Born (1938, ★ 5)
- Girls on Probation (1938, ★ 5.9)
- Out of the Blue (1947, ★ 6.3)
- Fly Away Baby (1937, ★ 6.2)
- A Slight Case of Murder (1938, ★ 6.3)
- The Patient in Room 18 (1938, ★ 4.5)
- The Adventurous Blonde (1937, ★ 5)