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Date of Birth : Mar 17th 1957

Film and television actress who first began appearing in movies in the late 1970s. She is best known for playing the role of Molly in California Dolls (aka …All the Marbles). She’s half Irish and half Polish and describes herself as being “Bi-Polish”.Landon began acting in a bit part in 1979’s Bitter Heritage, also released as “Naked in My Grave. She was also cast in the role of a featured skater in Roller Boogie in that same year. She was subsequently cast in another small role in 1981’s Full Moon High, her first of many collaborations with director Larry Cohen. She had spent part of her early career as a model, and in 1980 she was a runner up in the Miss Black Velvet pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada. While there, a casting director told her to go see another casting director in Los Angeles (the great Rueben Cannon), regarding a feature film called …All the Marbles. As she found modeling boring and was unable to sit still for hours at a time, she took his suggestion. She starred as Molly in …All the Marbles, a film with the alternate title, The California Dolls. She described this as her her most satisfying role. She was chosen as one of the final four women for the role and was required to undergo rigorous training at a professional wrestling school. Even though she broke her foot during the last match of the tryouts, she and Miss Frederick won their parts over 2,000 other young actresses trying out, including one young actress named Kathleen Turner. The successful film was the last directing effort by Robert Aldrich.


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California Dolls ( 1981 )

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