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Carole Landis was a gifted comedienne, a decent singer, and — once she dyed her natural brown hair blonde — perhaps the most luminous beauty in movies of the early 1940s. Plus, she was one of the most dedicated USO performers of WWII, and her elopement with an Air Force pilot on her travels became the inspiration for a book, movie and long running tabloid narrative. But then Landis fell into an affair with Rex Harrison — and this affair turned out to be Landis’ last.