A defiant lady looks back with no real regrets

A defiant lady looks back with no real regrets

Doubtless, many people younger than Veronica Lake wrote autobiographies, with hers having been published in 1969 when she was only 47 years old. But by 1973 she was dead; as legend has it, a washed-up, bankrupt Hollywood beauty who drank to oblivion. It would seem reasonable to assume that she had accepted her glory days would never return and it was time to set the record straight. Even, perhaps, that she felt her remaining days were few.