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Veronica Lake: Gun
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Tiny and buxom with long,blonde hair falling provacatively over her right eye, young Veronica gained instant notoriety as the girl with the "peek-a-boo" bang. Starring in films such as The Glass Key, This Gun for Hire, Sullivan's Travels and later Saigon.
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As Ellen Graham, in THIS GUN FOR HIRE the following year, Veronica now had top billing. She had paid her dues and was on a roll. The public was enamored with her.
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Many present-day filmmakers hold Lake in high esteem, and have paid tribute to her in their own work. Kim Basinger received an Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute dressed to look like Lake in 1998’s LA Confidential, and Lake herself makes an appearance in a clip from her noir This Gun for Hire. Peter Jackson and Kate Winslet have twice tipped their hats to Lake, once in a scene in Heavenly Creatures and again in a film-within-a-film in The Frighteners.
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