Highly rare-- almost every signed photo you encounter was secretarially signed!-- violet fountain pen signature on a portion of a pale yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1940s and later affixed by a collector to a 3x5-inch tan card alongside a magazine image of the star. In good condition for its age. Gorgeous 1930s model and film star Carole Landis was hand-selected by Hal Roach to play the scantily-clad prehistoric heroine in his sci-fi and fantasy classic One Million B.C. (1937). She stayed on at the studio, dubbed the Ping Girl, and headlined in classic comedies like Turnabout (1941), Road Show (1941) and Topper Returns (1941).  After a transition to Fox Studios, she starred in Moon Over Miami (1941), the thriller I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Orchestra Wives (1942), My Gal Sal (1942), and Four Jills and a Jeep (1944), based upon a book she had written, inspired by her  many tours with the U.S.O.  Alas, by the late 1940s, Landis' career had dried up, and, increasingly plagued by marital issues and personal demons, she committed suicide by overdose, aged only 29 years. Her autograph is highly uncommon in any format.

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