Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January , â€" July ,
) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract-player
for Twentieth Century-Fox in the s. Her breakthrough role was as the
female lead in the film One Million B.C., with United Artists. Landis
was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy
figure.Landis was born on January , , in Fairchild, Wisconsin, the
youngest of five children of Clara (née Sentek), 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 and remarried a
few months later.
) was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract-player
for Twentieth Century-Fox in the s. Her breakthrough role was as the
female lead in the film One Million B.C., with United Artists. Landis
was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy
figure.Landis was born on January , , in Fairchild, Wisconsin, the
youngest of five children of Clara (née Sentek), 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 and remarried a
few months later.
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