Veronica Lake

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Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake stand close together in dramatic lighting, with Ladd holding a pistol, in a scene from the film The Blue Dahlia.

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in a scene from The Blue Dahlia, with Ladd seated at a table set for tea and Lake sitting on a low wall, with the ocean in the background.

Veronica Lake as The Girl, dressed as a hobo, sits on the lap of Joel McCrea as John Lloyd Sullivan in a scene from the 1941 film Sullivan's Travels.

Veronica Lake

American actress

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- Alan Ladd
  …was frequently cast opposite actress Veronica Lake, whose icy detachment complemented Ladd’s cynicism, and the two became a leading screen couple of the 1940s. Ladd himself was consistently voted one of the top 10 box office personalities in the United States during this period.
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  …was frequently cast opposite actress Veronica Lake, whose icy detachment complemented Ladd’s cynicism, and the two became a leading screen couple of the 1940s. Ladd himself was consistently voted one of the top 10 box office personalities in the United States during this period.
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- André De Toth
  … (1947), featuring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake (to whom De Toth was married from 1944 to 1952), and Pitfall (1948), a film noir starring Dick Powell as a straying husband and Lizabeth Scott as the treacherous woman who turns his life upside down. Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) put Richard Widmark to…
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  … (1947), featuring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake (to whom De Toth was married from 1944 to 1952), and Pitfall (1948), a film noir starring Dick Powell as a straying husband and Lizabeth Scott as the treacherous woman who turns his life upside down. Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) put Richard Widmark to…
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