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Veronica Lake, nome artístico de Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, 14 de Novembro de 1922 - 7 de julho de 1973) foi uma atriz estadunidense famosa por seus papéis de mulher fatal em filmes noir com Alan Ladd durante os anos 40.
- Constance Frances Marie Ockelman
- Constance Keane, Connie Keane
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Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Her father, Harry Eugene Ockelman, was of German and Irish descent, and worked for an oil company aboard a ship. He died in an oil tanker explosion in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1932.Lake's mother, Constance Frances Charlotta (née Trimble; 1902–1992), of Iris...
Constance Keane
In 1938, the Keanes moved to Beverly Hills, California. While briefly under contract to MGM, Lake enrolled in that studio's acting farm, the Bliss-Hayden School of Acting (now the Beverly Hills Playhouse). She made friends with a girl named Gwen Horn and accompanied her when Horn went to audition at RKO. She appeared in the play Thought for Food in January 1939. A theatre critic from the Los Angeles Times called her "a fetching little trick" for her appearance in She Made Her Bed. Keane's fir...
Name change and stardom
Lake attracted the interest of Fred Wilcox, an assistant director, who shot a test scene of her performing from a play and showed it to an agent. The agent, in turn, showed it to producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., who was looking for a new girl to play the part of a nightclub singer in a military drama, I Wanted Wings(1941). Hornblow changed the actress's name to Veronica Lake. According to him, her eyes, "calm and clear like a blue lake", were the inspiration for her new name. The film became a b...
Personal struggles and box-office disappointments
Despite her initial success, Lake suffered a series of setbacks that ultimately derailed her career. Her complex personality quickly led to her to acquire a reputation for being difficult to work with. On Sullivan's Travels, Lake did not disclose she was six months pregnant when filming began, upsetting director Preston Sturges to the point he had to be physically restrained. Lake also clashed with co-star McCrea to the point that he dropped out of I Married a Witch, reportedly saying that "L...
After her third divorce, Lake drifted between cheap hotels in New York City, and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. In 1962, a New York Post reporter found her living at the all-women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan, working as a waitress downstairs in the cocktail lounge.She was working under the name ...
Lake's first marriage was to art director John S. Detlie, in 1940. They had a daughter, Elaine (born in 1941), and a son, Anthony (born July 8, 1943). According to news from the time, Lake's son was born prematurely after she tripped on a lighting cable while filming a movie. Anthony died on July 15, 1943.Lake and Detlie separated in August 1943 an...
In June 1973, Lake returned from her autobiography promotion and summer stock tour in England to the United States and while traveling in Vermont, visited a local doctor, complaining of stomach pains. She was discovered to have cirrhosis of the liver as a result of her years of drinking, and on June 26, she checked into the University of Vermont Me...
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameat 6918 Hollywood Boulevard.
Veronica Lake's image was used as a sight gag in the 1942 film The Major and the Minor with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. Clips from her role in The Glass Key (1942) were integrated into the 1982 film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaidas character Monica Stillpond. Lake was one of the models for the animated character Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 film Who Fr...
Lake, Veronica; Bain, Donald (1970). Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake. Citadel Press; ISBN 0-806-50225-8Lenburg, Jeff, Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake. iUniverse, 2001; ISBN 978-0-595-19239-7.Oderman, Stuart, Talking to the Piano Player 2. BearManor Media, 2009; ISBN 978-1-59393-320-3Vagg, Stephen (11 February 2020). "The Cinema of Veronica Lake". Diabolique.Veronica Lake at IMDbVeronica Lake at the TCM Movie DatabaseVeronica Lake at AllMovieVeronica Lake at the Internet Off-Broadway Database19 de abr. de 2020 · Distúrbios, falência e alcoolismo: Veronica Lake, um dos símbolos sexuais de Hollywood. Além de exagerar no drama e nas bebidas, a loira chegou a pilotar sozinha um avião para fugir do marido
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.
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7 de jul. de 2021 · julho 07, 2021. Na década de 1940 Veronica Lake era uma das maiores f emme fatales de Hollywood. O longo cabelo loiro, caído sobre o olho, virou moda, e ao lado de Allan Ladd ela personificou mulheres fatais em muitos filmes noir.
Veronica Lake, nome artístico de Constance Frances Marie Ockelman ( Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, 14 de Novembro de 1922 - 7 de julho de 1973) foi uma atriz estadunidense famosa por seus papéis de mulher fatal em filmes noir com Alan Ladd durante os anos 40. Veronica Lake em Sullivans Travels (1941) Factos rápidos. Fechar.
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