There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and Joel McCrea ...

Veronica was tending bar, and when I told her I was from Saranac Lake, she cried, kissed me and continued to work. What a moment!" In the early 1970s, Veronica made a brief return to the spotlight ...

NEW YORK -- With her peek-a-boo blond hairdo and sultry looks, Veronica Lake was the ``it-girl'' of the 1940s silver screen. When she died penniless three decades later, her ashes sat anonymously in a ...