I just saw this on TCM, and Landis was unrecognizable, and I don't think an up and coming young Hollywood starlet would have been made up as an unglamorous cavewoman with a big nose and buck teeth.
Did anyone else think that, seeing the beautiful Ms. Landis after this movie, that her plastic surgery was a resouding success??
Check out Carole at the beginning of the film when Conrad Nagel is lecturing the group. She sure looked like the same lovely lady from her many famous films of the Forties. Her nose didn't look the same as it did while she was portraying Loana, so one has to assume that Carole was made up to look less glamorous as a cave woman. Of course, a less glamorous-looking Carole Landis was still pretty sexy, IMO (what long legs she had!)
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Yes, it is a known fact that Carole Landis had a rhinoplasty right after she made this film around 1940. Her nose slanted downward in all of her photographs from the 1930s especially when she was dating Busby Berkeley in 1937. After she had her nose bobbed, she was divine.
The Divine Genealogy Goddess
She looked a little different from what I've seen in her other movies. I thought it was just the styling, but now I know why. Still, I say with or without a nose job, Carole was a beautiful woman. I don't mind a natural beauty who doesn't have a barbie doll nose.
If you ask me, she was lovely in One Million BC, and with her skin tight mini-dress with shell adornments and fluffy, 1940s curled hairdo, I'd hardly call her an "unglamorous" cavewoman. Just about the most glamorous cavewoman I've seen until Raquel Welch and Victoria Vetri thirty years later.