Steven C. Fisher
Screenwriter · 1941
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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.
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Carole often suffered from depression and attempted suicide several times. As a result, her career began to decline, and her marriage to Broadway producer V. Horace Schmidlapp fell apart. Some time later, she began an affair with actor Rex Harrison. After he refused to leave his family for her on July 5, 1948, the 29-year-old actress took her own life.
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Her real name was Frances Lillian Mary Ridste.