Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busiest of all is Franchot's girl (Veronica Lake), a refugee with a hot-potato Austrian accent. She is a good pastry cook and Nazi. Between cakes, Veronica sneaks off to plot the destruction of the airdrome and Tone's brother. At long last, Veronica is seen igniting a hay rick to guide the Luftwaffe. Promptly Tone strangles her, joins the R.A.F. When last seen he is high in the air, grinning like a Hollywood Japanese...
...Beautiful Veronica Stevens, who was in love with a masked aviator whose face she had never seen. She used to beat "her mother over the head with a telephone." Reason: Mrs. Stevens' "biological need for the absolute" filled her with a desire to make tailored suits to cover the "indecent" shapes of streamlined automobiles...
Divorced. By Cinemactress, "Veronica Lake" (Constance Keane Detlie), 24: Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime Hollywood art director; three years after their marriage (for each the first); in Hollywood. She charged that he called her an "unfit mother," added to her grief over the death last July of their premature second child. She won custody of their two-year-old daughter Elaine for nine months each year, and $50 a month...
...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...
Sued for Divorce. By Constance Keane Detlie, 23, wheat-headed cinemactress "Veronica Lake"; Army Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime cinema art director; three years after their marriage (for each the first), three months after the death of their premature second child; in Hollywood. She charged that his treatment of her had "produced a condition detrimental to her health and welfare...