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Veronica Lake
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Veronica Lake, the girl with the "peek-a-boo hairstyle," is a consummate product of the Hollywood star machine. In the golden years of the studio system, stars were created overnight by media hype and studio-released "hot tips." It was this system that transformed aspiring actress Constance Ockelman into glamour sensation Veronica Lake. Her image "sold" so well that, in the early years of the war, Lake herself was asked to appeal to women factory workers to clip their copycat tresses to avoid industrial accidents.
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By the time Veronica had graduated from high school in Miami, she was already known as one of the local Miami beauties. She felt that she was ready for films. Her mother and step-father moved to a small home in Beverly Hills, California in 1938 where Mrs. Keane enrolled her lovely daughter in the well known Bliss Hayden School of Acting in Hollywood. She didn’t have to wait long for a part to come her way.
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Mr. Brill, a longtime fan of Lake, said Mr. Bagley gave him the ashes in 1976. Mr. Brill said he put them on a shelf in his rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side, where they stayed for a quarter-century until recently, when Mr. Brill was shopping in Ms. Levine's store.
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According to Lake's current keeper, Larry Brill, off-Broadway producer Ben Bagley saw the urn with Lake's ashes while visiting Roos and became enamored of the attractive container. Roos, for reasons unexplained, later sent along the ashes to Bagley without the urn, said Brill.
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Ann Sothern -- Ann Sothern, born Harriet Lake on January 22,1909 in Valley City, North Dakota, and her film career started as an extra-bit part in the film BROADWAY NIGHTS in 1927. She would work as an extra for the next six years. Finally Ann got her break with Colum Product Type Examples and . . .
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Prior to her adult industry career, Veronica was a teller at Bank of America. Then in 1993 she performed in the film Vagina Town, and she has appeared in about 50 adult movies and in many adult magazines since. She has been credited under several different names, including Cher, Jewel, and Veronica Lake. As Cher she was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month for November 1995, on which cover she ... appears.
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