- Geboren am
- Verstorben5. Juli 1948 · Pacific Palisades, Kalifornien, USA (Selbstmord)
- GeburtsnameFrances Lillian Mary Ridste
- Spitznamen
- The 'Ping' Girl
- The Blonde Bomber
- The Chest
- Größe1,66 m
- Carole Landis wurde am 1 Januar 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA geboren. Sie war Schauspielerin und Autorin, bekannt für I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Ein eleganter Gauner (1946) und Road Show (1941). Sie war mit William Horace Schmidlapp Jr., Capt. Thomas C. Wallace, Willis Hunt Jr. und Jack Robbins verheiratet. Sie starb am 5 Juli 1948 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
- EhepartnerWilliam Horace Schmidlapp Jr.(8. Dezember 1945 - 5. Juli 1948) (sie verstorben)Capt. Thomas C. Wallace(5. Januar 1943 - 19. Juli 1945) (geschieden)Willis Hunt Jr.(4. Juli 1940 - 13. November 1940) (geschieden)Jack Robbins(25. August 1934 - 9. Mai 1939) (geschieden)Jack Robbins(14. Januar 1934 - Februar 1934) (annulliert)
- ElternAlfred Leonard RidsteClara Agnes Bernice ZentekAlfred RidsteClara Stentek Ridste
- VerwandteLewis Andrew Ridste(Sibling)Dorothy Anna Ridste Ross(Sibling)Jerome Arthur Ridste(Sibling)
- Blonde hair and blue eyes
- She desperately wanted to become a mother but suffered from endometriosis and could not have children. She had numerous other health problems during her life, including dysentery, malaria, pneumonia and depression.
- Diana Lewis once gave Carole a gold cross as a gift. She wore the cross for the rest of her life and was even buried wearing it.
- She adopted her stage name by choosing Carole because she was a huge fan of Carole Lombard and took the surname Landis after baseball commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis.
- In her musicals, Carole usually sang in her own voice.
- Spent more time visiting troops during World War II than any other Hollywood star. She nearly died from malaria she contracted while traveling overseas.
- [on Lupe Velez's suicide, which occurred years before her own] I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.
- I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
- Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly.
- Although I avoided dramatics--and everything else--in school. I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.
- We had a wonderful time everywhere overseas. But it was hard. For five months we never gave less than five shows a day. It was too cold to sleep nights and there wasn't water enough to take a bath. I had to do my own washing. And I ate more sand and fog than food.
- Out of the Blue (1947) - $7,500
- Tumak, der Herr des Urwalds (1951) - $75 /week
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