And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
what a doll, see her in "Sulivan's Travels" or "I Married a Witch"- both films have the Preston Sturges stamp on them. too, in "Travels", Lake is a few months pregnant, as was Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like it Hot"- it has a pronounced effect on a woman's "aura", quite positively.
Died a waitress, IIRC.
ReplyDeletewhat a doll, see her in "Sulivan's Travels" or "I Married a Witch"- both films have the Preston Sturges stamp on them. too, in "Travels", Lake is a few months pregnant, as was Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like it Hot"- it has a pronounced effect on a woman's "aura", quite positively.
Wore that hair style like nobody else in that time period could.
ReplyDeleteWhatever 'it' was, she had 'it' in spades.
The Peekaboo Bangs girl. When Rosie the Riveters started getting hurt on the job becuase they emulated her hairstyle, Veronica wore it shorter.
DeleteVeronica Lake with eyes like limpid pools.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad told me that back then a "Fisherman's Dream" was a weekend on Veronica Lake.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing, and fantasizing at the same time. Heh.
DeleteBack in the day when femineity and self-respect was a thing.
ReplyDeleteDidn't recognize her with both eyes showing.
ReplyDeletebuttros buttroos golly
ReplyDeleteIn interviews she is so butch. But holy mother she scorched the big screen.
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