Actor

Carole Landis

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Movies: 64Series: 0

TMDB ID: 33229

IMDb ID: nm0484808

Known for: Acting

Born: December 31, 1918

Died: July 5, 1948

Age: 29

Place of birth: Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1936 - 1989

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 6.56

Wikidata: Q242785

Also known as

Frances Lillian Mary Ridste

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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.