# How Popular Was Alan Ladd **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956 "2009-01-25T21:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/41 "2015-08-15T19:46:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > One of his leading ladies said that was not true. Perhaps I can find a site when I have had more coffee. Boxes, holes, high heels, stocking feet, all sorts of techniques that are always used in film making to get the desired relative height. There’s no doubt they did something during his career. In a cowboy film he’d probably just wear high-heeled boots and his leading lady would take her heels off in a scene where it mattered. After all, he was tall enough to go on amusement park rides. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/42 "2015-08-15T20:44:02Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > After all, he was tall enough to go on amusement park rides. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/43 "2015-08-15T20:54:28Z")
Isn’t the most important fact about him so far unmentioned ? That he was the father-in-law of Cheryl Ladd ? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/44 "2015-08-15T21:03:55Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > Isn’t the most important fact about him so far unmentioned ? That he was the father-in-law of Cheryl Ladd ? I never knew that. Can’t understand why Cheryl Stoppelmoor didn’t stick with her maiden name. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/45 "2015-08-15T21:05:25Z")
I don’t know why, but the thread title made me think that it was going to be a conversation about Jonas Grumby… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/46 "2015-08-15T21:17:09Z")
Here’s a full-length photo of[Ladd and Veronica Lake](http://moviestarmakeover.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/size-ladd-and-lake.jpg). She’s wearing high heels, but remember, she was only 4’11" ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/47 "2015-08-15T21:30:21Z")
I also see Alan Ladd was the father of three children. Alan, Alana & David Alan. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956/48 "2015-08-15T21:39:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I never knew that. Can’t understand why Cheryl Stoppelmoor didn’t stick with her maiden name. I guess she thought the pelmoors had been stopped long enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-popular-was-alan-ladd/482956.md?page=2)