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Veronica Lake: Alan Ladd
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An unusual role for Veronica Lake sees her as a potential victim and accomplice of a young killer (Alan Ladd, in one of his many pairings with Lake). Based on a novel by Graham Greene, this is an intriguing noir that lingers in the memory.
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Black and white movie still of Veronica Lake, a popular American film actress and pin-up model who enjoyed both popular and critical acclaim, especially for her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s. Measures 8" x 10".
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Lake was making $4,500 per week (equalling over $53,000 in 2007, after allowing for inflation) under her contract with Paramount when she married director André de Toth in 1944. Their son, her third child, André Michael de Toth III, was born October 25, 1945. Lake is said to have begun drinking more heavily during this period and people began refusing to work with her. Paramount cast Lake in a string of mostly forgotten films. A notable exception was The Blue Dahlia (1946) in which she again co-starred with Alan Ladd (who reportedly was ... less than fond of her). During filming, author Raymond Chandler referred to her as "Moronica Lake."
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Many feel that Ladd and Lake created a model for the "toughs and vamps" breed of acting that was later to be perfected by Bogart and Bacall. Four major films highlight this most successful period of Lake's career: This Gun for Hire, followed by The Glass Key, The Hour before Dawn, and Saigon. In 1948, when her contract expired, Lake left Hollywood. Interviews suggested that she felt she had outgrown her stereotypic vamp image. Yet, in spite of her frustration at being typecast, she did not escape the image in her one notable role of her post-Hollywood period, in an action picture called Stronghold, independently produced in Mexico, partly with her own money.
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