Joel McCrea
John L. Sullivan
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Veronica Lake plays The Girl, a hitchhiker who helps director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) experience poverty and make a serious film. The film is a comedy about comedy, with a romance and a message about laughter and social issues.
- (29K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Preston Sturges
- 1942-02-06
A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director ( Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor aspiring actress ( Veronica Lake) who accompanies him.
Feb 9, 2019 · Veronica Lake | Sullivan's Travels (1941) Pool Scene [1080p]Movie Clip
- 4 min
- 57.6K
- John
Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, her peek-a-boo hairstyle, and films such as Sullivan's Travels (1941) and I Married a Witch (1942). By the late 1940s, Lake's career began to decline, due in part to her alcoholism.
Veronica Lake & Joel McCrea In Sullivans Travels 1941. Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the ...
- 2 min
- 11K
- Craig Steves
En route to enlightenment, he encounters a lovely but no-nonsense young woman (Veronica Lake)—and more trouble than he ever dreamed of. This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen.
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John L. Sullivan : You're a little richer than you were. Hundreds of miles from everything. Cut off from the world, a taste of human kindness. I'll never forget it as long as I live. What town is this?
