Written by Veronica Lake November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973 was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most significantly for her femme fatale roles in film noir through Alan Ladd throughout the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. Her success did not last; she had a string of broken marriages and long struggles among mental illness and alcoholism until she died of hepatitis.
Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Harry E. Ockelman, of Danish-Irish descent, worked for an oil company aboard a ship. Her father died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932 when she was ten. Her mother, née Constance Charlotta Trimble (1902–1992), (listed as “Veronica F.” on the 1920 census), married family friend Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, a year later, and Lake initiated using his endure name.
Lake was sent to Villa Maria, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Montreal, Canada, from which she was expelled. The Keane family later moved to Miami, Florida. Lake attended high class in Miami, at which she was known for her beauty. She had a anxious childhood and was, according to her mother, diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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