Veronica Lake

This comes up a lot, how comedies are very rarely awarded.

rewarded and awarded so this was interesting and it was also interesting to finally watch veronica lake in something i think i'd seen i married a witch and this that's the only i just i know her by look i you know my wife was watching this with me it's the veronica lake hair it is impossible to you know mistake her for anyone else but i think the thing that impressed me the most about this movie is Joel McRae and Veronica Lake together.

They are, it's like dynamite, like watching the two of them together.

It's, it's always interesting to go back and watch movies like this, where you're like some of them, it feels like the chemistry isn't there, but this is, This and What Happened Last Night, those are the kind of precursors for a lot of rom-coms today.

Like totally trying to think of other examples where we've seen this in real time where somebody, I mean, this happens a lot with journalists, like they embed themselves in a culture or in a X, Y, Z. I wouldn't necessarily say they dress as a, you know, as a unhoused person and go out on the streets to get, um, insight into those communities, but it's, it's definitely a theme.

And I think it's, it's just handled really well here.

And I think both of the lead performances, as we mentioned a little bit, I mean, you mentioned Veronica Lake's hair.

I mean, if you just look at her Wikipedia page, you would not expect the person in that photo to end up dressing like a little boy.

Okay, question number nine.

According to my research, actresses Veronica Lake and Vicki Dugan were both direct inspirations for what human animated character, despite what her last name may suggest.

In the movie itself, the character was voiced by Kathleen Turner and, additionally, Amy Irving, the character's singing voice.

Both of the voice actresses were uncredited.

Okay, yes,

the answer is Jessica Rabbit.

Have you ever seen Veronica Lake, Matt? Why don't you look her up? I bet you'd follow her on Instagram if she was alive now.

I'm not going to dignify that with a response.

That dog's been to the movies.

Saw Veronica Lake and copied her hairdo, huh?

I'm positive.

The only thing is this dog's overdoing it.

Sure.

Um, why not? Uh, "My mother told me I looked like Veronica Lake.

'My dream girl,' she called me.

I took this to mean that she had wanted a child, had dreamt of one, and then been granted that wish.

Mm

... um, Veronica Lake, and it's, like, essentially a screwball comedy.

It's definitely operating in the screwball comedy mode.

And, um, it's, it's just, like, kind of a, a charming thing where there's a witch who comes back with her father from the, I think it's the Pilgrim times, and, um, essentially steals away a man from another woman, and then they, like, fall authentically in love.

Um, and I find that extremely charming.

And also she's about as beautiful as anyone has ever been in cinema.

But I mean, it's Veronica Lake, so it's not surprising.

Um, and then the other one, Bell, Book and Candle, is kind of a slightly modern version of that.

I had fun working with René Clair on a picture called I Married a Witch.

I remember [laughs] rushing down the back stairs of Paramount right onto the set where Freddie March and Veronica Lake [laughs] and René would be standing waiting for a bit of scene.

I'd give them about three minutes of action and dash back to the typewriter [laughs], thus apparently upsetting all the rules of, uh, Paramount.

You know, the idea of a writer daring to do a thing like that without submitting it through three or four of the godlike creatures that had to nod approval or, or make their marks in the event that they had any ability, even that much ability with pens, uh, of approval, of okaying a script.

I'm there, and I'm seeing, like, all these classic film noirs.

I was like, "What the fuck are you, why are you s- you showing these, Ed and Larry Lake?" And they're like, "They star Veronica Lake." I was like, "Oh-

Oh, of course

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