Veronica lake biography book
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Veronica: The Autobiography Of Veronica Lake
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“What a sense you have for finding trouble and entering into it.”
Veronica Lake remains one of Hollywood’s greatest icons, from movies like Sullivan’s Travels and The Blue Dahlia. Her trademark ‘peek-a-boo’ blonde hairstyle, partly hiding one eye, is a legend in its own right, but her blend of beauty, ice cool persona and dry comedic style makes the actress a timelessly magnetic screen personality.
The persona hid a tumultuous personal life, and this memoir holds nothing back. Born Connie Ockleman, the actress owed the soubriquet ‘Veronica Lake’ to a producer’s inspiration. She was a tough Brooklyn kid, with an ambitious stage mother calling the shots in her early life. After early successes in beauty pageants, the diminutive Connie headed to Hollywood, where, despite her headstrong nature, she became Hollywood’s biggest ‘it’ girl of the &rsquo
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Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake
"What a sense you have for finding trouble and entering into it."
Veronica Lake remains one of Hollywood's greatest icons, from movies like Sullivan's Travels and The Blue Dahlia. Her trademark 'peek-a-boo' blonde hairstyle, partly hiding one eye, is a legend in its own right, but her blend of beauty, ice cool persona and dry comedic style makes the actress a timelessly magnetic screen personality.
The persona hid a tumultuous anställda life, and this memoir holds nothing back. Born Connie Ockleman, the actress owed the smeknamn 'Veronica Lake' to a producer's inspiration. She was a tough Brooklyn kid, with an ambitious stage mother calling the shots in her early life. After early successes in beauty pageants, the diminutive Connie headed to Hollywood, where, despite her headstrong nature, she became Hollywood's biggest 'it' girl of the 's.
But after brushes with the casting couch (she didn't succumb), a string of doomed ma
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Veronica Lake
American actress (–)
Veronica Lake | |
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| Born | Constance Frances Marie Ockelman ()November 14, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | July 7, () (aged&#;50) Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouses | John S. Detlie &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Andre de Toth &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Joseph Allan McCarthy &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Robert Carleton-Munro &#; &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 4 |
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (November 14, – July 7, ), known professionally as Veronica Lake, was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in films noir with Alan Ladd during the s, her peek-a-boo hairstyle, and films such as Sullivan's Travels () and I Married a Witch (). By the late s, Lake's career began to