Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake - The Glass Key (1942)

Various scenes involving Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd from the film noir, The Glass Key (1942). Brian Donlevey appears in the opening and closing scenes here.

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[kanedasrifle]

"you still think your 5 points better than paul and 4 better than me"

"lets dynamite those tracks"

Great lines.

[jorgecurioso]

Amen to that. Great movie, too. Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd never looked and sounded so good.

[RayPaganJr]

She didn't have that many scenes in Blue Dahlia. I'm sure her personal life was not heaven, but I don't notice it in that film.

[jorgecurioso]

I don't know that she had that many fewer than in Glass Key. Compare Dahlia with Key or Hire next time you have the chance.

[RayPaganJr]

Signs of decline? Exactly what part did you notice that?

[jorgecurioso]

I'd have to go back and look, Ray, but I remember that she's starting to look just a little bloated in some scenes, and doesn't have the spark that she had in 1941-2. She'd started drinking heavily already, and I believe had self-aborted by that time, also.

[blackwhimsy]

Indeed. She was also very tiny. At 4 foot 11,she was the only one of Alan Ladd's leading ladies who was shorter than he was.(5'6)

I love old movie sirens. The classic movies had really strong and interesting roles for women. They were sexy,but few of them were simpering wimps. They were also arresting,unusual beauties. Give me Ronnie Lake,Greta Garbo,Jean Harlow etc over Angelina Jolie and Nicole Botox Kidman any day.

[hammertapping]

@cutandpaste1 why don't you get a life, or act dead as you are.

in any case don't talk about things you know nothing about.

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@jorgecurioso thanks for the video

[misskill3r]

@RayPaganJr i hear she was an alchoholic due to several failed marriages.

[xMarinaDisasterx]

This film noir was just splendid, I love their chemistry, that between Alan and Veronica, they just oozes of sex-appeal, its such a tension. The two of them were really hot, handsome human beings. Especially that hospital-scene, just, love. <3

[spider9137]

Ned Beaumont ... yet, for some reason, the chose to call him "Ed" in the movie.

[imnotapsychopath]

she's so... i cant find the right word to sum up her beauty.

[Sirgreaseflick]

Ava Gardner said to Lake: "With a face and figure like yours you could start a war." Lake replied: "I believe we are at war; the question is, can a face and figure like mine stop it?" Veronica Lake is said to have been so disarmingly beautiful that she looked as if she had been preserved on ice before each scene: her skin, hair, eyes - everything was perfect and peerless. As for height, it's a moot point: she was proportioned to perfection, and she killed taller women with just her face alone.

[Talalay99]

Lake and Lass were a sizzling combo

[darkseaofempathy]

She's got the sexiest speaking voice. It really sort of takes you by surprise because she looks like a mermaid with that flowing, gorgeous hair, but then her voice is a low husky alto. I wish I sounded that sexy.

[LUX3dollfaceLAHbella]

HER VOICE WAS PRETTY

[bourbondipper]

@tyjeffries It's worth keeping an eye on Film Four's schedules - they've been showing a few on an afternoon, and of course BBC2 usually treats us with a Noir season every christmas. You're quite right though, they're far and few between. I've been building up my own collection through Amazon - suprisingly cheaply.