A tribute to Carole Landis (1919-1948), the beautiful, brilliant and talented blonde actress known as "The Ping Girl" (a nickname she disliked). A New Year's baby, born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste in Fairchild, Wisconsin, to a Norweigan father and a Polish mother. From a young age, she was a feminist who tried to start a girl's football team at her high school. When she arrived in Hollywood, she began in small parts at Warner Brothers and was eventually put under contract at 20th Century Fox ...