Veronica Lake (born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman; November , â€"
July , ) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Lake was
best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd
during the s and her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late s, Lake's
career began to decline, due in part to her alcoholism. She made only
one film in the s, but made several guest appearances on television.
She returned to the big screen in in the film Footsteps in the Snow
(), but the role failed to revitalize her career.Lake's memoir,
Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, was published in . Her
final screen role was in a low-budget horror film, Flesh Feast ().
Lake died in July from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at the age
of .Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in the New York
City borough of Brooklyn. Her father, Harry Eugene Ockelman, was of
German and Irish descent, and worked for an oil company aboard a ship.
He died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in . Lake's mother,
Constance Frances Charlotta (née Trimble; â€"), of Irish descent,
married Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, also of Irish
descent, in , and Lake began using his surname.
July , ) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Lake was
best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd
during the s and her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late s, Lake's
career began to decline, due in part to her alcoholism. She made only
one film in the s, but made several guest appearances on television.
She returned to the big screen in in the film Footsteps in the Snow
(), but the role failed to revitalize her career.Lake's memoir,
Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, was published in . Her
final screen role was in a low-budget horror film, Flesh Feast ().
Lake died in July from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at the age
of .Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in the New York
City borough of Brooklyn. Her father, Harry Eugene Ockelman, was of
German and Irish descent, and worked for an oil company aboard a ship.
He died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in . Lake's mother,
Constance Frances Charlotta (née Trimble; â€"), of Irish descent,
married Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, also of Irish
descent, in , and Lake began using his surname.
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