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Veronica Lake

American actress

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  • association with Ladd
    • Alan Ladd and Lake, Veronica starring in The Blue Dahlia
      In Alan Ladd

      …was frequently cast opposite actress Veronica Lake, whose icy detachment complemented Ladd’s cynicism, and the two became a leading screen couple of the 1940s. Ladd himself was consistently voted one of the top 10 box office personalities in the United States during this period.

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  • marriage to De Toth
    • Pitfall
      In André De Toth

      … (1947), featuring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake (to whom De Toth was married from 1944 to 1952), and Pitfall (1948), a film noir starring Dick Powell as a straying husband and Lizabeth Scott as the treacherous woman who turns his life upside down. Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) put Richard Widmark to…

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role in

    • “Blue Dahlia, The”
      • Alan Ladd and Lake, Veronica starring in The Blue Dahlia
        In The Blue Dahlia

        …of actors Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The screenplay was written by novelist Raymond Chandler, who earned an Academy Award nomination.

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    • “Sullivan’s Travels”
      • Sullivan's Travels
        In Sullivan’s Travels

        Veronica Lake (who was six months pregnant at the time of filming) played a struggling actress who accompanies McCrea on his “travels.”

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