Carole Landis

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 breakthrough role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C., with United Artists. Landis was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure.\n', 'Landis was born on January 1, 1919, in Fairchild, Wisconsin, the youngest of five children of Clara (née Stentek), a Polish farmer\'s daughter, and Norwegian-American Alfred Ridste, a drifting railroad mechanic who abandoned the family after Landis\' birth. According to Landis\' biographer E.J. Fleming, circumstantial evidence supports that Landis was likely the biological child of her mother\'s second husband, Charles Fenner. Fenner left Landis\' mother in April 1921 and remarried a few months later.\n', 'In 1923, Lan…