A cut page from an autograph album signed in person September 6th 1947 by Carole Landis (1919 - 1948), the American actress who committed suicide at the age of 29. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s after coming to audiences attention as the female lead in One Million B.C. (1940). She had dropped out of school at age 15 determined to make it in show-business, working as a hula dancer in night clubs, singing with dance bands and posing for pin-up pictures. In Hollywood she got work as a film extra, making her debut in A Star Is Born (1937), and when One Million B.C. was a box-office smash, she became a star. Landis appeared in a string of successful films, usually as the second female lead. In a time when the singing of many actresses was dubbed in, Landis's own voice was considered good enough and was used in her few musical roles. Landis landed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox and began a sexual relationship with Darryl F. Zanuck. She had roles playing opposite fellow pin-up girl Betty Grable in the musical Moon Over Miami and crime drama I Wake Up Screaming, both in 1941. When Landis ended her relationship with Zanuck, her career suffered and she was assigned roles in B-movies. During the war, she toured U.S. bases in England, entertaining the troops. Her final two films, Noose and Brass Monkey, were both made in Great Britain. Landis began a relationship with actor Rex Harrison, who was then married to actress Lilli Palmer. When Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of Seconal.