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Veronica Lake |
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PROFILE:
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Name: Veronica Lake
Birth Name: Constance Frances Marie Ockleman
Height: 5' 2''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: November 14, 1919
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Profession: actress, producer
Education: Bliss Hayden School of Acting in Hollywood
Place of Death: Burlington, Vermont.
Death Date: July 7, 1973
Death Cause: Hepatitis
Relationship: Robert Carleton-Munro (June 1972 - July 1973), Joseph A. McCarthy (music publisher, songwriter; August 28, 1955-1959), André De Toth (director; b. May 15, 1912; December 13, 1944 - June 1952), John S. Detlie (art director; b. 1907; 1940 - 1943)
Father: Harry Ockleman (ship employee;died in ship explosion February 1932)
Mother: Constance Charlotta Trimble
Step Father: Anthony Keane
Son: William Detlie (born: July 15, 1943;father: John S. Detlie), Andre Michael De Toth III (born: October 25, 1945;father: André De Toth)
Daughter: Elaine Detlie (born: August 21, 1941;father: John S. Detlie), Diana De Toth (born: October 16, 1948;father: André De Toth)
Claim to fame: Lake's famous blonde locks styled in the Peekaboo Bang
Contact: Click here
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- She weighed 90 pounds.
- Her birth year was usually given as 1919 but her autobiography and Lenburg's highly negative biography both indicate 1922.
- Her height variously was given as barely five feet to 5' 2. Photos indicate the shorter height.
- Took up flying in 1946 and in 1948 flew her small plane from Los Angeles to New York.
- She was found working in a hotel as a barmaid, after being decalred bankrupt. But she made a comeback soon after.
- Her ashes are scattered at sea.
- Women in the 1940's (and even Kim Basinger 50 years later for the movie L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) lost most or all of their hair trying to copy her platinum blonde hair color.
- She got her big break when teamed with the only actor in Hollywood relatively near to her in height, Alan Ladd. Ladd was 5'6 and she was just 4'11.
- She was shorter than the average twelve-year-old girl
- While she and Richard Webb (I) were rehearsing a scene in I WANTED WINGS (1941), director Mitchell Leisen filmed a scene which included this rehearsal for his later film HOLD BACK THE DAWN (1941).
- In 1959 was detained by police in Galveston, Tx. for being intoxicated while banging on the preist's residence of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
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