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    Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective
    Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective
    Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective
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    Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective

    By Randy Bonneville

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    Veronica Lake A Career Retrospective by Randy Bonneville

    The 1940s film actress, best remembered for her “peekaboo” hairstyle and movie appearances as a femme fatale in Film Noir roles opposite leading man, Alan Ladd.

    A complete comprehensive list of her appearances in feature films short subjects, on radio, on television, and her award nominations. 67 pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBearManor Media
    Release dateFeb 12, 2016
    ISBN9781310576928
    Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective

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      Veronica Lake - Randy Bonneville

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      Veronica Lake: A Comprehensive Career Retrospective

      Feature Films

      Short Subject

      Award Nomination

      Radio Appearances

      Television Appearances

      Veronica Lake

      The 1940s film actress, best remembered for her ‘peekaboo’ hairstyle and movies opposite leading man Alan Ladd, was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1919.

      Little Connie’s childhood was disrupted by the sudden death of her father in an explosion when she was twelve. Her mother married Anthony Keane a year later and Constance began her education at Villa Maria, an all-girl Catholic school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. However, Connie did not get along well at the school and was later expelled.

      When the family moved to Miami, Florida, Constance attended Miami Senior High. It was there her beauty began to bloom, compacted into a petite 4’ 11 ½" frame.

      By 1938, they relocated to Beverly Hills, California, where Mrs. Ockelman-Keane enrolled Connie at the Bliss-Hayden School of Acting. Within a year, Constance had secured a contract at RKO Radio Pictures and was appearing in her first film, SORORITY HOUSE. Following a role in the Leon Errol comedy short, THE WRONG ROOM, the studio dropped her.

      A few more small parts in movies came her way until Constance was introduced to Paramount producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. When he noticed the water-like blue in her eyes, Connie Keane became Veronica Lake. Hornblow then cast her in an aviation drama he was preparing titled I WANTED WINGS. Her seductive role of Sally Vaughn, who dallies with three flying cadets, put her on the film map. Her ‘peekaboo’ hairstyle (a strand of long tresses draped over one eye) became a national fad and an icon of 1940s film images.

      Now a star, Lake was given choice assignments in Paramount movies. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS paired her with Joel McCrea in a solid comedy-drama directed by Preston Sturges, but it was her next leading man with whom Lake became most identified — blonde and laconic Alan Ladd. Their first teaming was in the crime thriller THIS GUN FOR HIRE, an early noir opus in which Lake becomes involved with an icy hit-man who begins eliminating the fifth columnists that double-crossed him. The studio quickly realized they had a potent new screen team and made plans to put them together in more films. In all, Lake and Ladd made seven movies together (three of which were revue-type vehicles where they played themselves).

      A lengthy screen career seemed very likely for Lake, but she soon gained a reputation for being difficult to work with — a rebelliousness that dated back to her Catholic school days. By the late forties her fortunes changed, as lesser films, divorce, and the loss of her second child took their toll. She became a

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