Carole Landis
Born Frances Ridste on
Jan. 1, 1919
in Fairchild, WI
Died
July 5, 1948
of suicide in Brentwood, CA
In a 1941 article for Photoplay, the glamorous Carole Landis wrote: "Glamour girls are suckers!" "So you might rightly hail me, 'Hi Sucker!' because, as the nicks on a gun indicate how many men a killer has got, nicks on the heart of a glamour girl indicate how many men she didn't get! "There is very little I can do about it, either. Being a glamour girl doesn't help any. I can only do what other girls do, cry my eyes out at night, hope and pray, pretend I don't care, do the best acting job of my career for the benefit of friends and family, for the sake of my own pride." The star of "One Million B.C." wanted "love, marriage, home, children" more than anything, but in 1948, when Rex Harrison refused to leave wife Lilli Palmer for her, Landis took a bottle of sleeping pills before a scheduled lunch date with Harrison. She may have intended just to scare him, but Harrison found her dead, her head resting atop her jewelry box. When she died at 29, Landis already had been married four times. She wed for the first time when she was a 15-year-old sweater girl at San Bernardino High. The marriage to writer Irving Wheeler lasted 25 days and she returned to high school to graduate in 1936. In 1937, her heart set on a film career, she got her first job as a chorus girl in a Warner Bros. picture. Although her film career took off, in the ways of the heart Landis counted only unhappiness. At the time of her suicide, she was in the process of divorcing her fourth husband, theatrical producer W. Horace Schmidlapp. In the suicide note she left for her mother, Landis said: "I'm really, really sorry to put you through this but there is no way to avoid it."
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Two thoughts about Carole Landis
....Carole Landis is the only actress that can make me sit through a girl movie from her era.
A paraphrase attributed to Carole:
..."and you can have all the glamour and all the money and keep your fame if you have a good man who supports and loves you through the good times and bad"..........
......look at her gorgeous face throughout "Behind Green Lights".
What a beautiful woman!
Carole was a beautiful woman and a very talented actress. It's a shame that she is usually only remembered because of her tragic death. Did you know that during World War 2 Carole spent more times visiting troops than any other actress. She loved her fans and they will never forget her!
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