Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison
Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison Film actor Carole Landis killed herself after her lover, film and stage actor Rex Harrison, refused to leave his wife, actor Lilli Palmer, for her. Harrison afterward denied that either he or the affair itself had caused Landis's death and went on to a long distinguished film career. On July 5, 1948, actress Carole Landis was found dead in her Pacific Palisades home. In the photo, a detective examines the suicide scene after her body is discovered by her maid and married lover (and object of her despair), Rex Harrison. She died after ingesting five times the amount of Seconol needed to cause death. She had committed suicide at the young age of twenty-nine. 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 breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Milli...