Quotes made by the lady herself...
and those who knew and worked with her.
"You could put all the talent I had in your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision"
~Veronica Lake
"I opened up my mop closet the other day and I thought Veronica Lake fell out"
~Grocho Marx
"Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find."
~Veronica Lake
"Veronica Lake wears her hair over one eye because it’s a glass eye"
~Bob Hope
"I was stopped by a cop the other night for driving with one headlight out. He looked at me and said, ’Hey, watta you tryin’ to pull, a Veronica Lake?"
~Fred Allen
"Here’s a recipe for Veronica Lake potato bread. Use one-eyed potatoes"
~Tizzie Lish
"I certainly would have preferred to have made my mark in Hollywood’s shortest hairstyle. Everything would have been easier"
~Veronica Lake
"She looks like some damned sheepdog"
~Eddie Contor (Film maker)
"She was known as ’the bitch’ and deserved the title."
~Eddie Bracken
LAKE REFERENCES
You often you hear a name drop in reference to a person in the public eye.. usually at their expense.. here I am trying to compile a list of references to Miss Lake in any broadcast medium in any context.
"He’s so dumb he thinks Veronica Lake is a body of water!"
Fozzy Bear referring to Kermit in finale of Episode 13 [Bruce Forsythe - ’Muppet Show Season 1’]
"And I did a cartoon titled Crazy Cruise, which featured a body of water called ’Veronica Lake.’ I later gave prominence to that gag on Uncle Captain Huffenpuff’s map on my Time for Beany puppet show"
Bob Clampett [Reprinted from ’Funnyworld No. 12’]
"Ah ha. Nice bit of ’Veronica Lake’. Now let me see"
Mr Jones the Butcher selling some steak during wartime Britain and using some rhyming slang (Clive Dunn) [’Dads Army’]
"Um, honestly, Bev, I think the forties is your era. I mean, you already have this, kind of Veronica Lake thing goin’ on."
Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) [Charmed Episode #75 ’Muse To My Ears’]
