Tag: Preston Sturges

• The Life of a Sex Zombie

  Veronica Lake was in my living room yesterday morning, poised and bored, with the lissome form of a young dancer and the dead eyes of.  . .well, the eyes of someone who’s seen Veronica Lake’s future. Which wouldn’t be a cheery vision. In the watchful coolness of this siren’s gaze, you’d be right to sense […]

  Dana D. Burnell

  April 22, 2022

  Golden Age Hollywood, Sex Symbols

  Alan Ladd, Alcoholism, Clara Bow, Frederic March, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Preston Sturges, Veronica Lake

• I’m the One. . .

  . . .sidling shyly in the doorway, pausing to pretend to admire the decor.  When really I’m just vetting out the room, getting a handle on the dress code, the temperature, taking a measure of the ol’ joie-de-vivre.  In short, this is my first time here.  And I’m not sure what to say, other than that […]

  Dana D. Burnell

  January 7, 2019

  Film & Storytelling

  Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Golden Age Hollywood, Hollywood, Joan Fontaine, Noir, Novelists, Preston Sturges, Self-Styled Siren