Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl (Hollywood Legends) by Eric Gans

By Eric Gans

Regardless of showing in twenty-eight videos in little over a decade, Carole Landis (1919-1948) by no means relatively turned the main Hollywood celebrity her onscreen presence must have afforded her. even if she acted in such enduring movies as A Scandal in Paris and Moon over Miami, she used to be quite often relegated to assisting roles. even if she performed the most important position in a function, as she did within the Powers lady and the movie noir I get up Screaming!, she was once billed moment or 3rd in the back of different actors. This biography lines Landis's existence, chronicling her beginnings as a dance corridor entertainer in San Francisco, her occupation in Hollywood and overseas, her USO performances, and finally her suicide. utilizing interviews with actors who labored with Landis, modern motion picture magazines and journals, and correspondence, biographer Eric Gans unearths a sad determine whose existence was once all too short. Landis's gigantic holiday got here in 1940 with Hal Roach's a million B.C. She seemed in 13 20th Century-Fox images among 1941 and 1946. In 1942-43, Landis entertained troops in England and North Africa within the purely all-female USO journey. The journey ended in her memoir, 4 Jills in a Jeep, and a Fox motion picture of an identical name. After her final American movie in 1947, she accomplished initiatives in England whereas having an affair with married actor Rex Harrison. stricken by a love that may now not bring about matrimony and depressed approximately getting older, she took a deadly drug overdose on July five, 1948. Eric Gans is professor of French at collage of California, l. a.. he's the writer of various books together with so much lately The Scenic mind's eye: Originary considering from Hobbes to the current Day, and his articles have seemed in lots of periodicals.

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We only know that Carole sang at the Royal Hawaiian as well as danced—she claims she eventually convinced the manager to let her sing by giving a rendition of “My Man” in her sultry voice. Subsequently, Carl Ravazza (1912–1968), a former singer and violinist who was taking over the leadership of Tom Coakley’s band, heard Carole’s act at the Royal Hawaiian and hired her as his female vocalist. From references in Bay Area newspapers of the time, it appears that Ravazza often performed at the St. Francis Hotel, only a few blocks from the Royal Hawaiian, and he may have played the Hawaiian as well.

Is both entertaining and perceptive. The story is introduced by an archaeologist (Conrad Nagel) who is working in a cave where a group of hikers, including Carole and Victor Mature, take refuge during a rainstorm. The archaeologist invites the group to imagine the two as the young couple in the story he deciphers from hieroglyph-like drawings on the walls of the cave. ), is injured in a fight with his father over a piece of meat and then knocked into the river by a marauding elephant. Victor floats downstream, where he is found by Carole in the role of Loana of the Shell people, a gentler and more technologically advanced tribe who have learned to make spear points, while the Rock folk have only clubs.

The conspirators put financial pressure on Carole by sabotaging the circus, forcing it to close, then burning down her barn. But the Mesquiteers rescue the situation in extremis by entering a trick horse left over from the circus in a providential trotting race that pays just the amount of money both they (who own the ranch next door) and Carole need to avoid foreclosure. On the whole, Carole acquits herself well of the limited displays of emotion required of her, although in the one sequence in the film where she is shown for any length of time in medium close-up, careful observation shows her trying to stifle a laugh when she is supposed to be feeling indignation.

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