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On July 4, 1948, the film star Rex Harrison met Carole Landis for dinner. Her acting career was on a downward trajectory while Harrison's was on the rise. Landis had been reduced to acting in B-movies, according to Turner Classic Movies.
Harrison's involvement in the scandal by waiting several hours before calling a doctor and police [22] briefly damaged his career and his contract with Fox was ended by mutual consent. [ 23 ] In 1955, Harrison starred opposite Kay Kendall in The Constant Husband , and they had an affair. [ 24 ]
He drove two women to suicide. He was so rude his own butler threatened him with a shotgun. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the poisonous truth about Rex Harrison
But few liaisons have ended so tragically than the one between British actor Rex Harrison and actress Carole Landis, in the late 40s. When it was all over, Harrison would barely recover from the fallout. The same, unfortunately, could not be said of Landis.
Her family has spent decades claiming that Rex Harrison was directly responsible for the starlet’s end. According to them, it was malicious negligence on Harrison’s part, by refusing to immediately call for help when he found her.
On July 8 Coroner Ben Brown held an informal inquest to find out what the motive was for her suicide. Carole's married lover Rex Harrison arrived at the hearing with his boss Darryl F. Zanuck. He denied being romantically involved with Carole.
Carole Landis was discovered in her apartment after a lavish Fourth of the July party followed by an intimate dinner with actor Rex Harrison, nicknamed by several “Sexy Rexy.” Harrison and Landis had been involved in an widely known extra-marital affair.