updated: 21/07/2006
Here we have various contemporary actresses portraying movie stars from the late 1940s and 1950s in movies, TV shows or mini-series, or publicity photoshoots.
Veronica Lake: Veronica Lake (1919—1973) was a popular American film actress and pin-up model who achieved wide fame and critical praise, especially for her film noir roles during the 1940s. But her success was fleeting and after a string of broken marriages and long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism she died almost destitute. Here entrepreneur and criminal Martha Stewart adopts Veronica’s look with a lot of help from the late Kevyn Aucoin.