Tomato Dish
Here’s Veronica Lake auditioning for sleazy Laird Cregor in This Gun’s For Hire (1942). The first two minutes of this clip comprise one of those “what the fuck?” moments that made me fall in love with classic moviedom. Lake’s singing voice is obviously dubbed and the tune is a campy throwaway (Lauren Bacall had a similar bit in To Have And Have Not; lip-syncing must have been a job requirement for saucy young actresses back then). By the end, however, I’m totally charmed. Film noir needed more cute and inappropriate musical numbers, don’t you agree?
