Veronica Lake definitely was a blond—I sat thru all her movies when I was a child during WW II and recall all the movie magazines with her picture on the front.
Same here! One of the first movies I saw in a theatre, with parents, was “I Married A Witch”. Veronica Lake - blond - starred. I don’t remember who the ‘husband’ was. Part of the plot was that her deceased father resided [as ashes] in an urn on the mantlepiece, and he made a habit of suddenly appearing in the [not]flesh and causing havoc in their lives. My introduction to film comedy - along with the also-WWII era film “Up Goes Mazie”, the source, IIRC, of the song “Maresie Doats”. Geeez...we had it good as kids, eh?