Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born. To Veronica Lake, 29, blonde cinemactress; and second husband Andre DeToth, 35, director; their second child (her third), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
...Veronica Reardon was only a little girl when she heard one of her parents' snooty guests say to another: "Oh well, they're not so bad." And the reply: "Well, no, not for R.C.s." When her aunt explained that R.C.s meant Roman Catholics and not Red Cross, Veronica didn't get it; she had always "thought it best to be a Catholic." As she grew up, she discovered that a great house on Long Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other...
Ellin Berlin, an R.C. who married a Russian Jewish songwriter named Irving Berlin and made a go of it, knows that those who marry out of their faith are not always so lucky. In Lace Curtain, her second novel, Veronica goes through a young girl's social hell before she finally marries Protestant Jamie Stair. Then she discovers that not even love and children are sufficient armor against relatives and religious differences. At the end, Veronica waits for her husband to return from the war, prays that somehow they can make their marriage last...
...Sainted Sisters. An easy-to-like comedy in which Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield, city crooks, try to fleece a down-East village (TIME...