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Veronica Lake
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, 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 1940s, her peek-a-boo hairstyle, and films such as Sullivan's Travels (1941) and I Married a Witch (1942). By the late 1940s, Lake's career began to decline, in part because of alcoholism…
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entertainment · American actress (1922–1973) · actor · aircraft pilot · stage actor · television actor · model · film actor · also Veronica Lake, Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, Lake
Born 14 November 1922 · Died 7 July 1973 · Q84232
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2026· 3 entries
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Public attention spiked: 10,717 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.4× the usual 864, with 0 article edits.
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2004· 1 entry
Some of Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store
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1973· 3 entries
Died 1973-07-07.
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Of acute hepatitis and acute kidney injury
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“I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.”
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1969· 4 entries
Lake essayed the role of Blanche DuBois in a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire on the English stage; her performance won rave reviews
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And in the United States the following year
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Received an offer to appear on stage in Madam Chairman
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Revealed that she rarely saw her children
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1966· 1 entry
Had a brief employment as a hostess on a tv show in Baltimore, Maryland, along with a largely ignored film role in Footsteps in the Snow
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1962· 1 entry
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
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1946· 1 entry
After purchasing an airplane for de Toth, Lake earned her pilot's license in 1946.
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1944· 3 entries
Lake married film director Andre de Toth with whom she had a son and a daughter
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Lake took stock of her career, claiming, "I had to learn about acting
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In 1944, Lake married film director Andre de Toth with whom she had a son and a daughter.
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1943· 1 entry
Lake and Detlie separated in August 1943 and divorced in December 1943.
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1938· 1 entry
The Keanes moved to Beverly Hills, California
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1936· 1 entry
The Keane family moved to Miami, Florida
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1933· 1 entry
Married Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist also of Irish descent, and Lake began using his surname
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-11-14.
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