Thread by @dean_frey

Celebrate the Veronica Lake Centennial 🎂💯
📷 George Hurrell, 1941
"I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair."

Veronica Lake was so good in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
I was absurdly pleased to find out this outfit was designed by Edith Head, who did the costumes for the film. Great shot by Talmadge Morrison, the on set still photographer
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A lovely shot by Talmadge Morrison of Joel McCrea & Veronica Lake, in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, 1941
It must have been a relief for Edith Head to move on to this scene.
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Veronica Lake by George Hurrell, 1941
Glamour is one thing, but look at Lake's eyes in this shot. Hurrell is searching for character here, & finding it.
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Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake in Frank Tuttle's This Gun for Hire, 1942
The still photographer on the set was Mal Bulloch
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Veronica Lake in Mitchell Leisen's I Wanted Wings, 1941
The still photographer on the set was Don English
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Veronica Lake with Alan Ladd again, in George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia, 1946. The two appeared in four films together, over six years.
The still photographer on the set was Jack Koffman
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Veronica Lake by Eliot Elisofon, 1942
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I presume this shot was taken for René Clair's I Married a Witch.

A shot that Bob Landry took of Veronica Lake's hair for a Life magazine feature in November 1941. Her hairstyle was widely copied by young women, but once America went to war, Lake cut her locks in the interest of war industry safety.
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Veronica Lake by Peter Stackpole for Life, 1946
A much more suitable look for working on an armaments assembly line.
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