1. Carole Landis worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s.
26 Facts About Carole Landis
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Carole Landis was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure.
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Fleming, circumstantial evidence supports that Carole Landis was likely the biological child of her mother's second husband, Charles Fenner.
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In 1923, Carole Landis's family moved to San Bernardino, California, where her mother worked menial jobs to support the family.
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At the age of 15, Carole Landis dropped out of San Bernardino High School and set forth on a career path to show business.
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Carole Landis apparently employed her only because he felt sorry for her; she later sang with a dance band.
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Carole Landis made her film debut as an extra in the 1937 film A Star Is Born.
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Carole Landis continued appearing in bit parts until 1940, when Hal Roach cast her as a cave girl in One Million BC.
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Carole Landis appeared in a string of successful films in the early 1940s, usually as the second female lead.
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Carole Landis had roles playing opposite fellow pin-up girl Betty Grable in the musical Moon Over Miami and crime drama I Wake Up Screaming, both in 1941.
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When Carole Landis ended her relationship with Zanuck, her career suffered and she was assigned roles in B-movies.
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Carole Landis became a popular pin-up with servicemen during World War II.
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Carole Landis wrote several newspaper and magazine articles about her experiences during the war, including the 1944 book Four Jills in a Jeep, which was later made into a movie costarring Kay Francis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair.
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Carole Landis wrote the foreword to Vic Herman's cartoon book Winnie the WAC.
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Carole Landis was married four times and had no children.
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In January 1934,15-year-old Carole Landis married her first husband, 19-year-old Irving Wheeler.
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Carole Landis's mother had the marriage annulled in February 1934.
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Carole Landis persuaded her father, Alfred Ridste, to allow her to remarry Wheeler.
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Carole Landis finally relented, and the two were remarried on August 25,1934.
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Carole Landis maintained that she had not seen Wheeler in years and heard from him only the previous year when he claimed to want a divorce.
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Carole Landis left Hunt after two months of marriage; they were divorced in November 1940.
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On December 8,1945, Landis married Broadway producer W Horace Schmidlapp.
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Carole Landis was reportedly crushed when Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her.
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The next afternoon, Harrison and Carole Landis's maid discovered her on the bathroom floor.
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Carole Landis is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, in plot 814 of the "Everlasting Love" section.
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Carole Landis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street.