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Veronica Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York on November 22, 1922, and not 1919 as some biographies have previously stated. Her father, Harry E. Ockelman, of Danish-Irish descent,[2] worked for an oil company onboard a ship. When she was about one year old, the family moved to Florida but returned to Brooklyn before she was five. Her father died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932 when she was 9. Her mother (née Constance Charlotta Trimble)[3] married family friend Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, a year later, and Ockelman began using his last name.
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Veronica Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockleman in Brooklyn, New York on November 14th 1919. Her family moved to Florida before she was even a year old, but they moved back to Brooklyn a few years later. He only early acting was in a school play during primary school. Her father died whilst working on an oil ship following an explosion when she was twelve.
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Veronica Lake's film career came to a halt in the late 1940s; she made just three films afterward. Lake divorced De Toth in 1952, and she left California to settle in New York, where she did quite a bit of stage work and made a number of appearances on early television. However, mental illness and her increasing use of alcohol chipped away at her career, and by the late 1950s or early 1960s Lake was working as a bar maid. By chance she was rediscovered, and in the early 1960s Lake was offered a job working in Baltimore as a TV host. She made two more films: Footsteps in the Snow (made in Canada and released in 1966) and Flesh Feast (shot in Miami in 1967; not released until 1970), a film which she ... produced. Lake wrote a sensational autobiography, which made waves when it was published in 1969.
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During the 1940's Veronica Lake captivated Hollywood audiences like few other actresses. She was a popular pinup queen during WWII and won fame co-starring in several films with Alan Ladd (Lake was short enough to play along aside the diminutive Ladd without emphasizing his small stature). Her claim to fame came with her celebrated "peek a boo" hairstyle, which many women in the early 1940's emulated, to the point where she was asked to change because it endangered the hair of female workers with armaments machinery! Most recently, Kim Basinger adopted this "Lake look" all the way to an Oscar in the film L.A. Confidential.
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Veronica Lake was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1919 with the birth name of Constance Frances Marie Ockleman. Her father worked for an oil company as a ship employee. While still a child, Veronica's parents moved to Florida when she wasn't quite a year old. By the time she was five, the family had returned to Brooklyn. She was expose to acting early when she starred in a primary school play. It was to be her only stage outing, at least for a while.
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One who did make it was Lake's son Michael, who lived in Hawaii. He had asked his father, Lake's 3rd ex-husband the director Andre de Toth, for money to fly to Vermont, but was met with obscenities for even bothering him. He had to take a loan out to fly to Vermont to claim the body, which he found looking "small and lonely" at the Corbin Palmer funeral home located nearby the hospital in Burlington Vermont.
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