BLACK SAILS STAR TO PLAY HOLLYWOOD ICON VERONICA LAKE
Leading British actress and model Clara Paget is playing Veronica Lake in a promotional teaser/trailer for The Lost Blonde, Little Dude Films’ proposed feature about the life of the 1940s Hollywood icon. The role follows Clara’s highly regarded appearance as pirate Anne Bonny in Black Sails, the popular Starz! distributed TV pirate drama, which concluded its fourth and final series earlier this year.
Little Dude Films’ director and the project’s writer and producer, Ian Beaumont says: “We’re thrilled to have Clara Paget on board to play Veronica Lake in The Lost Blonde teaser/trailer. Not only is Clara a great actress; she also bears a striking resemblance to Veronica Lake in her Hollywood heyday.
“With the current welcome and popular trend for female led dramas, we are hopeful that the teaser/trailer and Clara’s performance in it will attract the support and investment we need to make a feature film about one of Hollywood’s most iconic and mysterious actresses.”
The teaser/trailer is being filmed in London in October, with James Butler directing and a top notch crew.
The Lost Blonde feature film script has been co-written by Ian Beaumont and US writer Donald Bain, who co-wrote Veronica Lake’s autobiography with her and befriended her in her last years. Don is best known for writing the Murder, She Wrote books.