Joel McCrea
John L. Sullivan
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Veronica Lake plays The Girl, a hitchhiker who helps Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) experience poverty first-hand. The film is a comedy drama about the challenges of making a serious film and the power of laughter.
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- 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.
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Actress: Sullivan's Travels. Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee.
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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- Burlington, Vermont, USA
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.
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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.
