Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veronica Lake and her three-year husband, Major John Detlie of the Army Engineers, decided to get divorced. The honey-haired refugee from the peek-a-boo explained: "We just don't think alike...
...Proudly We Hail (Paramount) enlists three of Paramount's brightest fe-.male stars (Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake) in a heartfelt, but highly fictional, tribute to the Army nurses of Bataan. The three leading ladies are so comely even in coveralls that, despite all the realistic shooting, they spend most of their time fighting a woman...
...Veronica Lake (with her hair up) makes a good deal of her short, tense visit to the film. Claudette Colbert most successfully sidetracks her prettiness for the more urgent priority of suggesting an exhausted young woman in coveralls. Paulette Goddard is easy to like in the fattest role in the film. She has a comic warmth and bounce reminiscent of the late Jean Harlow..Even easier to like is 4F (but outwardly rugged) Sonny Tufts, whose stumbling hands and voice develop wrinkles in the comedy of inarticulate love-making which are likely to become official among female cinemaudiences...
...whether or not the realistic movie-drama is good for a wartime audience, Claudette Colbert, Veronica Lake, and dirtied Miss Goddard put the picture across. As Lieutenant, Miss Colbert is efficient, masterful and as romantic as Colbert...
...when Veronica blows herself up along with a messy pile of Japs, you forget that she's the babe with the "peekaboo bang" and get a little respect for the American female. About Paulette Goddard: well, she's good too, except now it's a sure bet that Hollywood can't put out a single picture without at least one sheer black nightie...