Veronica Lake and costume designer Edith Head

> In 2004, some of [Veronica] Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store.

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During World War II, Veronica Lake traveled throughout the United States to raise money for war bonds. She also changed her trademark peek-a-boo hairstyle at the urging of the Government to encourage women working in war industry factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles. Although the change helped to decrease accidents involving women getting their hair caught in machinery, doing so may have damaged Lake’s career.
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I didn't expect that one day I'd hear old movie icons Hedy Lamarr and Veronica Lake attempt to say a few words in Vietnamese.

But that's what I found in two classic Hollywood films set in Vietnam and released decades before the later wave of war-related movies.

The gif in the post above is taken from 1942 US News Review newsreel footage.

In the first segment, actress Veronica Lake is shown getting her famous hairstyle reconfigured in such a way that it would be safe, should she take on the kind of job that many "Rosie the Riveter" female workers took during the war. Safety caps are seen used by women war workers at the 1:53 mark.

You can watch it in full here:

https://archive.org/details/76974USNewsReview