Veronica Lake’s Long Escape: A Deeply Sad Page from Hollywood History

“I’ve always been a dreamer of good dreams,” Veronica Lake once wrote. “Any bad dreams are turned away in mid-air.” One of the defining sex symbols of the 1940s, Lake’s life at first glance does seem like the stuff dreams are made of: The beautiful blonde beauty queen. The extra plucked from obscurity and turned overnight into a Hollywood star. The otherworldly girl with the famous peekaboo hairdo. The star of film classics, including This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia and Sullivan’s Travels. But for the temperamental, troubled Lake nothing was as it seemed. In Veronica: The Autobiography of… Read Full Article