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Isn’t It Romantic (1948) Norman Z. McLeod, Veronica Lake, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher
In rural 19th-century Indiana, the three daughters of a Civil War veteran Read More »
Saigon (1948) Leslie Fenton, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. Read More »
The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Frank Tuttle, Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England–who is also a Nazi agent–marries Read More »
Out of This World (1945) Hal Walker, Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller Read More »
Hold That Blonde! (1945) George Marshall, Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Albert Dekker
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. Read More »
Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) André De Toth, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. Read More »
Flesh Feast (1970) Brad F. Grinter, Veronica Lake, Phil Philbin, Doug Foster
Dr. Elaine Frederick has just perfected a way of using maggots to make her test subjects not only look younger, but actually become younger. Read More »
Miss Susie Slagles (1946) John Berry, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield
Miss Susie Slagle’s has opened her large home as a boarding house for medical students in Baltimore. Read More »
Ramrod (1947) André De Toth, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Romance, Western
The Blue Dahlia (1946) George Marshall, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Read More »
The Glass Key (1942) Stuart Heisler, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this slick updating of Dashiell Hammet’s crime novel, political boss Paul Madvig (Brian Donlevy) falls for reform politician Ralph Henry’s attractive daughter Janet (Veronica Lake), despite the caution of his best friend, Ed Beaumont (Alan Ladd). Paul’s efforts to disassociate himself from the criminal underworld backfire, however, when he is accused of murdering Janet’s disreputable brother, and a casino owner Paul had offended sends his sadistic thugs after Ed in revenge.
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Preston Sturges, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), convinced he won’t be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to “know trouble” first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion (Veronica Lake), he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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I Married a Witch (1942) René Clair, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them – a prospective governor (Fredric March) about to marry a spoiled socialite (Susan Hayward). The most delightful of the films the innovative French director René Clair made in Hollywood, I Married a Witch is a comic confection bursting with playful special effects and sparkling witticisms.
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So Proudly We Hail! (1943) Mark Sandrich, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Drama, Romance, War
A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destination, and their lives. Sent to Bataan, in the Philippines, the nurses are led by Lt. Janet Davidson. She is faced with untested nurses who expected an easy time in Honolulu, but who quickly become battle-weary veterans dealing with daily bombardments by the Japanese, overwhelmed by the numbers of wounded, and dwindling supplies. Some of “Davey’s” unit also have to deal with romantic entanglements with men they met onboard ship. When Bataan falls, the American forces flee to the offshore island of Corregidor, where they find the Japanese assault just as intense.
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