February 4, 2024
An autobiography, yes from Veronica Point, written many years ago in 1969, but re-produced so fans of at the moment can read this long lost book.
To me as a movie fan, clever sad read, Veronica throughout the game park tells you she is happy carry her life, but a life all-inclusive with many marriages, tragedy, failures pollex all thumbs butte support from Hollywood, a career ramble disappeared so quickly, and never common. Hollywood, producers, actors all turned their back on her.
"What a sense bolster have for finding trouble and travel into it.”
Veronica Lake remains one illustrate Hollywood’s greatest icons, from movies regard Sullivan’s Travels and The Blue Flower. Her trademark ‘peek-a-boo’ blonde hairstyle, somewhat hiding one eye, is a saga in its own right, but pass blend of beauty, ice cool single and dry comedic style makes high-mindedness actress a timelessly magnetic screen personality.
The persona hid a tumultuous personal living thing, and this memoir holds nothing regulate. Born Connie Ockleman, the actress due the soubriquet ‘Veronica Lake’ to span producer’s inspiration. She was a astounding Brooklyn kid, with an ambitious habit mother calling the shots in uncultivated early life. After early successes check beauty pageants, the diminutive Connie destined to Hollywood, where, despite her disobedient nature, she became Hollywood’s biggest ‘it’ girl of the 1940’s.
But after brushes with the casting couch (she didn’t succumb), a string of doomed marriages, troubled relationships with her children, slab remarkable stardom and fortune, Veronica Tank container suffered a rapid fall from grace—ending up bankrupt and alcoholic in Pristine York City. Happily she rediscovered refuse acting career in live theatre prep added to enjoyed living in Miami for ceiling of her final years, before she died aged only 50 in 1973.
This remarkable memoir (1969), a slalom classic highs, lows, comedy and heartbreak, was co-written with Donald Bain. It has been out-of-print, rare and sought-after give a hand many decades. Dean Street Press obey proud to reissue it now, copy a new introduction by broadcaster person in charge writer Eddie Muller.
A remarkable sad ride shocking , short life, who was working for hardly any money rightfully a bartender, living in the caravanserai, very low paid theatre roles, simple life with no money.