Claim: Alan Ladd was an actor.

This Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir , directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel -LRB- published in America with the same title , and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale -RRB- by Graham Greene . The film stars Veronica Lake , Robert Preston , Laird Cregar , and Alan Ladd . The movie made a star of Alan Ladd .