Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, as every year, Lampy came forth with its list of Hollywood's worst of 1941. But unlike every other year, the denunciation, which included Betty Grable and Veronica Lake among other poor unfortunates, has not raised any authoritative answering blast from the Coast. It has been suggested that film people are becoming hardened to the annual anathema roll, and that a permanent end has come to the happy little tussles between the 'Poen and the stars...
...Hollywood in a long time; and also one of the best. Whatever it is is due entirely to Preston Sturges, because he both wrote and directed it, and because the ideas and the moods, rather than the plot, are the body of the film. Though Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake dos serve a good bit of credit for some fine acting, you cannot help feeling in a picture like this that they are merely interpreting somebody else's ideas. And those ideas are undoubtedly Mr. Sturges...
...picture starts in Hollywood, where Joel McCrea is Sullivan, a Hollywood director who decides he hasn't seen anything of suffering and hardship, and therefore sets off as a tramp to see Life. Of course he runs into Veronica Lake and the two of them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time...
...Veronica Lake, according to studio publicity, gets kissed nine times in her new picture, to make up for a completely kissless cinema past...
...cinema's quickest-rising starlet of the year, tiny, honey-haired honey Constance Keane Detlie (Veronica Lake), gave birth to a daughter (6 lb., 2 oz.) at a Hollywood hospital. Her husband is Art Director John Detlie. Same day her leading man, William Holden, was in the hospital for an appendectomy...