Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold That Blonde," infested with both Bracken and Veronica Lake, supplies two answers to this question. In the first place, it is a source of endless pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded by a drunk with a cane. The tragic outcome of the scene (Bracken doesn't fall), while anticlimactic, fails to take the edge off the prospect of his immediate and horrible death...
...motivation for this hairbreadth nonsense is a $500,000 diamond necklace. Bracken gets involved only because he is a featherbrained kleptomaniac. The hoodlums keep busy because they have their workaday jobs to do. Veronica Lake is vaguely and halfheartedly associated with the hoodlums...
...Born. To Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane de Toth), 25, cinemac tress who popularized the sheep-dog hairdo, and Andre de Toth, 32, Hungarian-born cinema director: their first child, a son (she has a daughter by a previous marriage) ; in Hollywood. Name Andre Michael de Toth II. Weight...
Whether or not the U.S. press did its best, plenty of others did their worst. At the President's Birthday Ball (which the President did not attend), Cinemactress Veronica Lake prayed: "Godspeed him home, wherever he is." Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, rushing to the rescue of Henry Wallace, told the Senate that Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge" of meeting Stalin and Churchill. London correspondents cabled about a mysterious high U.S. visitor; two days later Britain's Official Court Calendar revealed that Harry Hopkins had conferred with King George VI. Hopkins went on from there, talked...
Sonja Henie, whose skates are lyric, was named Least Cooperative Actress of the Year by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Runners-up: Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Lana Turner. Men's champion: Walter Pidgeon. Said he: "It's just like being nominated for the Academy award...