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SARANAC LAKE — Veronica Lake, 53, the movie actress who once lived in Saranac Lake, died of hepatitis Saturday in Burlington, Vt. She had been in the hospital there since June. Miss Lake won fame and favor at the box office in the early 1940s, and her long, blonde hair worn over one eye, set a fashion for a time.
Lake consequently went into semi-retirement in Hollywood, FL, where she penned a well-received autobiography, Veronica, which detailed her many struggles with temperament, mental illness and alcoholism. With one last ditch effort for her long-past-its-prime career, Lake managed to co-finance her final film, a dreary, Florida-lensed horror movie ...
Aug 10, 2018 · Published August 10, 2018 5:00am EDT. Veronica Lake, one of the top actresses of Hollywood during the 1940s, had a tragic ending to her life. (Getty) When Sue Cameron went to interview one of the ...
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Veronica Lake. Actress: Sullivan's Travels. Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee. Her father was of half German and half Irish descent, and her mother was of Irish ancestry. While still a child ...
By 1943, age 21 Veronica Lake is at the peak of her career and earning $4,500 a week. Veronica Lake – Hollywood taketh away. And then she falls off a cliff. In 1944, the powers-that-be at Paramount, to whom she’s contracted, make a fatal mistake. They cast her as Dora Bruckmann, a Nazi spy, in The Hour Before Dawn. It’s a lousy role and ...
Apr 2, 2022 · That same year also had Veronica Lake entering into her second marriage. This time to Andre DeToth, a Hungarian-American film director. From this marriage, Lake would bear an additional two children: a son, Michael, and a daughter Diana. In June 1944, Lake went to Boston for the war effort where her services as a dishwasher were auctioned off.
Aug 2, 2021 · Veronica Lake was born on November 14,1922 as Constance ‘Connie’ Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, she rarely saw her father since he worked at sea. As an only child, she was usually alone with her mother. She was a self-professed tomboy, who preferred boxing gloves over dolls.
