Frances Lillian Mary Ridste Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American film and stage actress, who worked as a contract-player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakthrough role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C., with United Artists.She died of an intentional drug overdose at the age of 29 in 1948. After her death, newspapers headlined stories about the actress, some with the title "The Actress Who Could Have Been...But Never Was."
Stardom is merely some talent, a few breaks and a lot of publicity. I have the talent, the publicity will come and so will the breaks. Just give me a couple of years.
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A man can be an absolute heel and a woman, knowing it, can still be madly in love with him.
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I want to be as good an actress as Bette Davis, and I'd like to be a great singer. But more than that, I'd like to be happily married and have some children.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
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[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.
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Her second husband, Willis Hunt, was stabbed to death by his 6th wife, Deannie Best, during a violent argument. Best, whose attorney claimed Hunt was "drunk and unstable" and picked up the butcher knife he was killed with, was acquitted in November 1970.
She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
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Her name was legally changed to Carole Landis on April 23, 1942.
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Carole desperately wanted to become a mother but she suffered from endometriosis and could not have children. She had numerous other health problems during her life including dysentery, malaria, pneumonia and depression.
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She chose the name Carole because she was a huge fan of Carole Lombard.
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Spent more time visiting troops during World War II than any other Hollywood star. She nearly died from malaria she contracted while traveling overseas.
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She was the youngest of five children. Two of her brothers died when they were toddlers. Jerome was burned by scalding water and Lewis was accidentally shot.
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Actress Diana Lewis once gave Carole a gold cross as a gift. Carole wore the cross for the rest of her life and was even buried wearing it.
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A feminist at a young age, she once tried to start a girls football team at school but got into trouble because it was considered "un-lady like".
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Became friendly with future author Jacqueline Susann in 1944 when they appeared together in the Broadway revue "The Lady Says Yes". The character of fragile, blonde Jennifer North in "Valley of the Dolls" is partially based on Landis.
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Following her untimely death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in the Everlasting Love area.
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Rex Harrison, who had dined with her the previous night, discovered her body the day she committed suicide.
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She initiated divorce proceedings against her last husband in March 1948 but the divorce was not final when she died.
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A keen amateur photographer, she developed her own pictures.
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In her musicals, Carole usually sang in her own voice.
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Carole protested strongly and publicly against the nonsensical nickname "The Ping Girl" (apparently short for "purring") coined by Hal Roach publicist Frank N. Seltzer in April 1940.
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Had four older siblings, two of whom survived her. Lawrence Bernard Ridste (1912 - 1988), Lewis Andrew Ridste (1913 - 1925), Jerome Arthur Ridste (1916 - 1917), and Dorothy Anna Ridste Ross (1917 - 1997). Her brother Lewis died after being accidentally shot in the abdomen by a friend. Her brother Jerome died in infancy.
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Parents were Alfred Ridste, a railroad mechanic, and Clara Stentek Ridste. They separated when Carole was a baby.
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