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Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch Promotional Pictures (Love These!)

September 10, 2021 By Joi

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch Promotional Picture

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch (1942) was superbly directed by René Clair and boasts a wonderful cast including Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, and Cecil Kellaway. I watch this adorable movie twice a year – once in September and once in October. It helps get me in the mood for the mischief and fun of Halloween!

You can find I Married a Witch on dvd (Amazon link) or watch the movie on Prime Video.

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch Promotional Picture

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch

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Veronica Lake: So Proudly We Hail

April 19, 2021 By Joi

Veronica Lake, So Proudly We Hail

Veronica Lake
If being uncommonly pretty, coupled with being impossibly adorable and talented all at the same time were illegal… Veronica Lake owes a huge debt to society – even to this day! She is best-remembered for her looks (which is understandable, if we’re being honest, she was a little beauty), but those of us who have watched and loved many of her films also remember her as a wonderful actress with a talent for both drama AND comedy.

Whereas some stars, in my opinion were better suited for one of the two, Veronica Lake was exceptional in BOTH. Her comedic timing really doesn’t get enough credit. I, personally, think she stood toe to toe with other great comedic actresses such as Lucille Ball and Rosalind Russell when it came to comedies.  As for dramas (including film noirs), she was (again) as talented as anyone.

In addition to Veronica Lake, How Proudly We Hail (1943) starred several actresses who could do anything asked of a role – Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goodard. What. A. Cast!

How Proudly We Hail’s Plot: Nurses returning from the war in the Philippines recall their experiences, both in combat and love.

You can find the wonderful How Proudly We Hail on dvd (link to the dvd on Amazon). Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be on Prime Video yet.

Veronica Lake, So Proudly We Hail

Veronica Lake

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Pictures of the Day: Birthday Beauty, Veronica Lake

November 14, 2020 By Joi

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire

Veronica Lake

Today’s Picture of the Day happens to also be Birthday Beauty Veronica Lake (born on this date in 1922). To show just how anal I am about things like this, I flipped a coin to see whether to give picture of the day to Louise Brooks (who was also born on this date in 1906) or Veronica Lake.

Ironically, each beautiful and talented actress is known almost as much as their films.

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire


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BOTD in 1922, the Beautiful and Talented Veronica Lake

November 14, 2020 By Joi

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire

Beautiful Veronica Lake was born on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. Veronica is one of those actresses who I, personally, believe doesn’t get enough credit. She is, sadly, remembered most for her iconic hairstyle and (among those of us who are film historians.. immersing ourselves in details) for her personal demons, mental illness and the demon that almost always chased it, alcoholism.

She was so much more, though, and we should all start focusing on that.

Veronica Lake Alan Ladd, This Gun for Hire

Veronica Lake Alan Ladd, This Gun for Hire

Veronica starred in some of the best film-noirs ever made, alongside Alan Ladd.

They starred in four film-noirs together:

  • This Gun for Hire (1942)
  • The Glass Key (1942)
  • The Blue Dahlia (1946)
  • Saigon (1948)

They also both appeared in the 1942 extravaganza Star Spangled Rhythm.

My personal favorite Veronica Lake movie, however, is I Married a Witch. The FUN movie is hilarious and really showcases a lighter side of Veronica. The fact that it is, far and above my favorite may have a little to do with me simply wanting to remember her  smiling, mischievous, and bewitchingly happy. If that’s the case, mission accomplished because when I think of Veronica Lake, I think of the beauty below… and I’m very much okay with that.

Veronica Lake, I Married a Witch

 

Veronica Lake


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Veronica Lake Pictures with a Confession on the Side

October 25, 2020 By Joi

Veronica Lake, So Proudly We Hail

Veronica Lake

I have a lot of inexplicable quirks about me that leave me as puzzled as they would anyone else. I admit it. Heck, most of them are so glaring that denying them would only make me look even more crazy.

One such quirk involves the beautiful and talented Veronica Lake. I adore her to distraction. I’ve always thought of her as a fragile little doll… yet I don’t often talk about her, post pictures of her on Twitter (or here on Hollywood Yesterday). Strange, right?

Hang on. It gets stranger.

I find the life of Veronica Lake to be so incredibly sad and senselessly tragic that I (subconsciously) tend to avoid her. When I see her or speak about her, I am reminded that this tiny, beautiful, talented woman had too many personal demons for one person to handle alone… and yet that’s what she pretty much was left to do.

Veronica Lake suffered from mental and emotional problems at a time where “experts” had no idea what to do to help victims. More times than not, simply to get through the day, people would turn to “self-medicating” tactics which only brought more demons into play.

My heart breaks for the stars who were little more than money-makers to studios, family members, and agents. When I read their stories (or simply think about them), I feel a mixture of anger and sadness – anger that no one helped them (or even tried) and sadness that they… while giving the world so much joy… found their own joy to be just out of reach.

As was often the case with these stars (especially, it seems, with the females), other stars and directors turned their backs on them – speaking ill of them, giving them attitudes, and making their unhappy lives even more so.

I tweeted a photo of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd recently and, while doing so, thought how much I appreciate that (by all indications) Alan Ladd was especially kind to Veronica. It seems to have been a rarity for stars to show decent human kindness to people who were struggling – apparently piling on to their problems seems to have been more en vogue (with Marilyn Monroe as well as Veronica and others).

My inner dialogue went something like this:

You should talk more about Veronica Lake.

It makes me crazy sad!

What if no one talked about her and she was all but forgotten?

It would make me unbearably sad.

Then get over yourself…. 

Message received.

This fragile little doll won’t be put on a shelf and forgotten if I have anything to do with it. And if I get out of my own way, I will have something to do with it!

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire

Veronica Lake, This Gun for Hire

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