Alan Ladd produced Friends and Frasier.
Other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast -LRB- 1946 -RRB- , Whispering Smith -LRB- 1949 -RRB- and The Great Gatsby -LRB- 1949 -RRB- .	Two Years Before the Mast	Two Years Before the Mast (film)	Whispering Smith	Whispering Smith	The Great Gatsby	The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s , particularly in Westerns such as Shane -LRB- 1953 -RRB- and films noir in which he was often paired with Veronica Lake , such as This Gun for Hire -LRB- 1942 -RRB- , The Glass Key -LRB- 1942 -RRB- and The Blue Dahlia -LRB- 1946 -RRB- .	Westerns	Western (genre)	Shane	Shane (film)	films noir	film noir	Veronica Lake	Veronica Lake	This Gun for Hire	This Gun for Hire	The Glass Key	The Glass Key (1942 film)	The Blue Dahlia	The Blue Dahlia
