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...Married. Veronica Lake, 25, cascade-haired cinemactress; and Andre de Toth, 31, Hungarian-born cinema director (Dark Waters); she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Change of Station | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huxleyan Heaven and Earth | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Veronica Lake, her temper a shade frayed by a thumb broken at a Chicago bond rally, engaged in a shouting contest with a Boston gallery that heckled her soft-spoken plea for the Fifth War Loan. Said she of the extra-long bob: "Who are you? bobby soxers?" Said they: "No!" Said she: "Well, who do you think you're listening to, Frank Sinatra?" A happy ending to the squabble came with the purchase of a $100,000 bond which included the privilege of having Veronica wash dishes at Mayor Maurice Tobin's luncheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...aviator came to visit them. "Veronica!" he cried. "The cross [the Count] is wearing is the one you gave me!" It was the masked man. Veronica divorced the Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meshes of Anamorphosis | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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