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Veronica Lake
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Actor Born: November 14, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: July 7, 1973 Biography:When Brooklyn-born Constance Ockleman was prodded into a performing career by her ambitious mother, she chose her stepfather's name, Keane, for her nom de stage. After a year of thankless bit parts, she was dropped by RKO Radio Pictures. When she re-emerged at MGM in a small role in the "Eddie Cantor" vehicle "Forty Little Mothers" (1940), she was known as "Veronica Lake". While posing for publicity pictures, Lake inadvertently allowed her blonde hair to obscure one eye, thereby creating her movie persona as "the girl with the peek-a-boo bang." Signed by Paramount in 1941, Lake quickly ascended to leading roles. Directors such as "Preston Sturges" and René Clair had the patience to draw genuine performances from her, but, for the most part, she was cast on the basis of her beauty and popularity, with acting hardly an afterthought. In "This Gun for Hire" (1942), Lake was teamed with... Full Biography
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