I actually trudged down to the Libraryof Congress to read her 1972 autobiography and she comes across as witty and down-to-earth, although no doubt 100% of the book was written by Donald Bain, a very talented writer who extensively interviewed her.
Stories I recall:
- When she was a nobody trying to break into the movies, one sleazy studio exec. whipped out his dick in his office and demanded sex from her if she wanted his help. She refused. - She was deliberately difficult on set, antagonizing her costars and directors. - She was besieged in the 1940s by thousands of letters WEEKLY from male admirers. - She learned how to fly, bought her own plane, and flew it across the country.
This is how pitiful Iam. I actually read the autobiography of Donald Bain to get more insight into VL. As I recall he devoted little attention to her but did describe her as a raging alcoholic, which eventually killed her in 1974.
A ginormous VL/ST that I stole from HA, cause it's really too much of a bother to take a decent pic myself. This image closely approximates my RL VL/ST.....
Listening to Wings song "Jet" and thinking how insane McCartney and Lennon were to inject their wives with their less-than-zero musical talents into their respective bands. In fact, 1,249 peeps have jumped off a cliff after hearing YO's god-awful screeching.
- HCM/Mel has WAY too much free time to be posting this drivel - It is stupid to bid early. - It is insane crazy to publicly post your real top bid.
You are also thinking (fruitlessly): - Why didn't he post the dbills? - Wonder what the dbills look like? - No doubt the dbills are VASTLY superior to the the foregoing images....
And last but not least, the top-notch VL daybills...
Nice....
I will make a comment soon on the Veronica Lake daybills, but before I do would you kindly inform me how many daybills there were images of ? The names of the titles would even be better, but just the total number i'll be happy with if this presents a problem.
I have been sick for a while now and I haven't been able to concentrate as well as I would like. Been on the forum to try and keep my mind off things. Off course he was taking the piss and it is very obvious to me now that he was.
Now that we have cleared that up I will make some comments on Veronica Lake Australian daybills. There were 22 films were she received star billing on the posters
The three very minor low budget films Stronghold, Footsteps In The Snow and Flesh Feast that she made in the latter part of her career were not released in Australia, so of course no daybills..
Now of the remaining 19 films, over many years of looking, I have been able to locate daybill images of 16 of the 19 films.
Three titles continue to elude me. The missing daybill images are for I Wanted Wings, Ramrod and Slattery's Hurricane. Does anyone have any or all of these images they could share here?
With all the sighted Veronica Lake daybills 15 are Paramount / Richardson designs and one is W.E.Smith ( I Married A Witch ). Needless to say all the Richardson daybills have great designs, along with David's earlier posted I Married A Witch from W.E.Smith.
Comments
The first is 55" x 80", the second 40" x 55"
Was Lana Turner in The Hour Before Dawn or am I in the wrong thread?
Wait a minute, that does look kinda like Lana in the second poster from Benito?
What gives?
Now moved.
*****
And I could not afford TGFH working as a GS-14 atty for Uncle Sam, so I used PShop to create a pretty-cool 27x41 combining the 1S and HS:
I actually trudged down to the Libraryof Congress to read her 1972 autobiography and she comes across as witty and down-to-earth, although no doubt 100% of the book was written by Donald Bain, a very talented writer who extensively interviewed her.
Stories I recall:
- When she was a nobody trying to break into the movies, one sleazy studio exec. whipped out his dick in his office and demanded sex from her if she wanted his help. She refused.
- She was deliberately difficult on set, antagonizing her costars and directors.
- She was besieged in the 1940s by thousands of letters WEEKLY from male admirers.
- She learned how to fly, bought her own plane, and flew it across the country.
This is how pitiful Iam. I actually read the autobiography of Donald Bain to get more insight into VL. As I recall he devoted little attention to her but did describe her as a raging alcoholic, which eventually killed her in 1974.
Likewise...
- HCM/Mel has WAY too much free time to be posting this drivel
- It is stupid to bid early.
- It is insane crazy to publicly post your real top bid.
You are also thinking (fruitlessly):
- Why didn't he post the dbills?
- Wonder what the dbills look like?
- No doubt the dbills are VASTLY superior to the the foregoing images....
Don't click here:
http://moviepostercollectors.guide/MPC_Showcase_Veronica_Lake.html
PS Aren't you glad you started this hi-jacked thread?
NO DOUBT all pics in it are....
I will make a comment soon on the Veronica Lake daybills, but before I do would you kindly inform me how many daybills there were images of ? The names of the titles would even be better, but just the total number i'll be happy with if this presents a problem.
I have been sick for a while now and I haven't been able to concentrate as well as I would like. Been on the forum to try and keep my mind off things. Off course he was taking the piss and it is very obvious to me now that he was.
Now that we have cleared that up I will make some comments on Veronica Lake Australian daybills.
There were 22 films were she received star billing on the posters
The three very minor low budget films Stronghold, Footsteps In The Snow and Flesh Feast that she made in the latter part of her career were not released in Australia, so of course no daybills..
Now of the remaining 19 films, over many years of looking, I have been able to locate daybill images of 16 of the 19 films.
Three titles continue to elude me. The missing daybill images are for I Wanted Wings, Ramrod and Slattery's Hurricane. Does anyone have any or all of these images they could share here?
huh....
With all the sighted Veronica Lake daybills 15 are Paramount / Richardson designs and one is W.E.Smith ( I Married A Witch ). Needless to say all the Richardson daybills have great designs, along with David's earlier posted I Married A Witch from W.E.Smith.
The following is a list of the 16 daybills.
Blue Dahlia, The
Bring On The Girls
Duffy's Tavern
Glass Key, The
Hold That Blonde!
Hour Before The Dawn, The
I Married A Witch
Isn't It Romantic!
Miss Susie Slagle's
Out Of This World
Saigon
Sainted Sisters, The
So Proudly We Hail
Star Spangled Banner
Sullivan's Travels
This Gun For Hire
IMAW DB = A- in my book