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96: Veronica Lake (Dead Blondes Part 4)
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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Feb 21, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Veronica Lake had the most famous hairdo of the 1940s, if not the twentieth century. Her star turn in Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels and her noir pairings with Alan Ladd made her Paramount’s biggest wartime draw behind Hope and Crosby, but behind the scenes, Lake was a loner with a drinking problem who didn’t give an F about Hollywood etiquette. Bankrupt and without a studio contract, in the early 1950s she consciously quit movies. She claimed she left Hollywood to save her own life - so how did she end up dead at 50?
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Released:
Feb 21, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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