96: Veronica Lake (Dead Blondes Part 4)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Veronica Lake had the most famous hairdo of the 1940s, if not the twentieth century. Her star turn in Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels and her noir pairings with Alan Ladd made her Paramount’s biggest wartime draw behind Hope and Crosby, but behind the scenes, Lake was a loner with a drinking problem who didn’t give an F about Hollywood etiquette. Bankrupt and without a studio contract, in the early 1950s she consciously quit movies. She claimed she left Hollywood to save her own life - so how did she end up dead at 50? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ollen
0:30.0	To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets
0:38.9	and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, part of the Panopling Network.
0:46.6	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our ongoing series,
0:54.5	Dead Blans.
0:56.5	Where are you going?
0:58.5	To Hollywood.
1:00.1	Hollywood.
1:02.7	Do you come here for excitement?
1:07.3	I'm better than a human woman.
1:10.9	Do you rather than be a brument?
1:17.1	My dress. Do you like it?
1:19.5	I don't know.
1:22.1	But you're short to see you dress.
1:25.9	I'm so low, I'm so low, oh no.
1:36.3	Last month at the Golden Globes, when actress Brie Larson showed up wearing her long blonde hair
1:41.8	and loose waves, cascading down one side of her face and over her eye, her stylist gave interviews
1:48.6	citing actress Veronica Lake as the inspiration for the look.
1:52.9	Brie Larson was not the first movie star to emulate Veronica Lake, and she won't be the last.
1:58.7	Though Lake's movie career peaked 65 years ago and was more or less over by the beginning
2:04.6	of the 1950s, her hairstyle is still so famous, such a touchstone of old Hollywood glamour,
2:12.2	and so coveted, the beauty websites and magazines regularly give tutorials as to how to copy it.
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