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Veronica Lake is a Actor and Executive Producer American born on 14 november 1922 at New York City (USA)
Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage, and television actress. Lake won both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd, during the 1940s. She was also well known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late 1940s however, Lake's career had begun to decline in part due to her struggles with mental illness and alcoholism. She made only one film in the 1950s but appeared in several guest-starring roles on television. She returned to the screen in 1966 with a role in the film Footsteps In the Snow, but the role failed to revitalize her career.
Lake released her memoirs, Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, in 1970. She used the money she made from the book to finance a low-budget horror film Flesh Feast. It was her final onscreen role. Lake died in July 1973 from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at the age of 50.
Marriages and children
Lake's first marriage was to art director John S. Detlie, in 1940. They had a daughter, Elaine (born in 1941), and a son, Anthony (born July 8, 1943). According to news from the time, Lake's son was born prematurely after she tripped on a lighting cable while filming a movie. Anthony died on July 15, 1943. Lake and Detlie separated in August 1943 and divorced in December 1943. In 1944, Lake married film director André de Toth with whom she had a son, Andre Anthony Michael III (known as Michael De Toth), and a daughter, Diana (born October 1948). Days before Diana's birth, Lake's mother sued her for support payments. Lake and De Toth divorced in 1952.
In September 1955, she married songwriter Joseph Allan McCarthy. They were divorced in 1959. Lake's fourth and final marriage was to Royal Navy captain Robert Carleton-Munro in June 1972. They divorced after one year.
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Birth name Constance Frances Marie Ockelman
Nationality USA
Birth 14 november 1922 at New York City (USA)
Death 7 july 1973 (at 50 years) at Burlington (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 14 november 1922 at New York City (USA)
Death 7 july 1973 (at 50 years) at Burlington (USA)
Lake released her memoirs, Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, in 1970. She used the money she made from the book to finance a low-budget horror film Flesh Feast. It was her final onscreen role. Lake died in July 1973 from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at the age of 50.
Biography
After purchasing an airplane for her husband, André de Toth, Lake earned her pilot's license in 1946. She later flew solo between Los Angeles and New York when leaving him.Marriages and children
Lake's first marriage was to art director John S. Detlie, in 1940. They had a daughter, Elaine (born in 1941), and a son, Anthony (born July 8, 1943). According to news from the time, Lake's son was born prematurely after she tripped on a lighting cable while filming a movie. Anthony died on July 15, 1943. Lake and Detlie separated in August 1943 and divorced in December 1943. In 1944, Lake married film director André de Toth with whom she had a son, Andre Anthony Michael III (known as Michael De Toth), and a daughter, Diana (born October 1948). Days before Diana's birth, Lake's mother sued her for support payments. Lake and De Toth divorced in 1952.
In September 1955, she married songwriter Joseph Allan McCarthy. They were divorced in 1959. Lake's fourth and final marriage was to Royal Navy captain Robert Carleton-Munro in June 1972. They divorced after one year.
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
, 2h18Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating81%
In early 1950s Los Angeles, Detective Sergeant Edmund "Ed" Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a legendary LAPD detective, is determined to live up to his father's reputation. His intelligence, insistence on following regulations and cold demeanor contribute to his isolation from other officers. He exacerbates this resentment by volunteering to testify in a police brutality case, insisting on a promotion to Detective Lieutenant against the advice of Captain Dudley Smith (James Cromwell). Exley's ambition is fueled by the murder of his father by an unknown assailant, to whom he refers as "Rollo Tomasi" to give him personality.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Alan Ladd, Reni Santoni, Barbara Stanwyck
Roles (in "The Glass Key") (archive footage)
Rating67%
In the opening scene, John Hay Forrest (George Gaynes), noted scientist and cheesemaker, dies in a single-vehicle car accident (represented by the car wreck scene from Keeper of the Flame). In the next scene, private investigator Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) is reading a newspaper when Forrest's daughter, Juliet (Rachel Ward), enters his office and faints when the paper's headline reminds her of her father's death. Upon coming to, she hires Rigby to investigate the death, which she thinks was murder. In Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists, one titled "Friends of Carlotta" and the other "Enemies of Carlotta", as well as an affectionately autographed photo of singer Kitty Collins, whose name appears on one of the lists. His search is interrupted by a man posing as an exterminator (Alan Ladd, in This Gun for Hire), who shoots Rigby in the arm and frisks the lists from the seemingly dead investigator.
Flesh Feast (1970)
, 1h12Directed by Brad F. Grinter
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Veronica Lake
Roles Dr. Elaine Frederick
Rating25%
Lake plays Dr. Elaine Frederick, a mad scientist working on developing maggots that prefer human flesh, while her services are used to make a clone of Adolf Hitler. She cooperates with the plan to resurrect Hitler as a way of exacting revenge for the death of her parents, political prisoners executed in a concentration camp. While convincing everyone the flesh-eating maggots are for regeneration research, she simply wants to throw them in the resurrected Hitler's face, which she does.
Footsteps in the Snow (1966)
, 1h30Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Adventure
Actors Peter Kastner, Veronica Lake, Meredith MacRae, Allan F. Nicholls
Roles Henrietta's Aunt
Rating58%
Slattery's Hurricane (1949)
, 1h27Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Transport films, Aviation films, Catastrophe climatique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Dolores Grieves
Rating63%
"...This is a hurricane. Hurricanes are windstorms of great violence several hundred miles in diameter, with a dead calm at the center called the eye. Like whirlpools, they spin rapidly, hurling great destruction in their paths. They're spawned in the doldrums, their father the heat of the sun, their mother the moisture of the sea. From July to December every year, the Caribbean crawls with these evil offspring of the elements..."
Isn't It Romantic? (1948)
, 1h27Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Veronica Lake, Billy De Wolfe, Mona Freeman, Richard Webb, Mary Hatcher, Pearl Bailey
Roles Candy Cameron
Rating48%
Major Euclid Cameron (Roland Culver), an officer of the Southern Army during the Civil War, writes his memoirs about the hardships of battle right after the war. It is set in Indiana, at the time of Reconstruction, and the Major's finances are not in order. Cameron's daughters, Candy (Veronica Lake), Susie (Mona Freeman) and Rose (Mary Hatcher), urge him to get a job so they can pay the family's debts. The strongheaded Major refuses, taking pride in the fact that no Cameron has ever had a decent job. He talks himself out of a job offer from a banker in town, Clarissa Thayer (Kathryn Givney), a single woman who has always found him attractive.
The Sainted Sisters (1948)
, 1h29Directed by William D. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Veronica Lake, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, George Reeves, William Demarest, Beulah Bondi
Roles Letty Stanton
Rating64%
After escaping New York City with the loot from a successful scam they pulled, sisters Letty and Jane Stanton decide to hide out in a small town in Maine close to the Canadian border. Robbie McCleary takes them in only to discover the large surplus of money mysteriously appearing. The girls reluctantly get involved in a charity program and unwittingly become the local celebrities of the town, something that causes a problem when their fame attracts attention outside the small town and the people affected by their previous scams begin to catch up with them.
Ramrod (1947)
, 1h35Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp, Preston Foster, Arleen Whelan
Roles Connie Dickason
Rating66%
Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner (Charles Ruggles), who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Connie instead takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of town by Ivey. She inherits the man's land.
Variety Girl (1947)
, 1h33Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, DeForest Kelley, Frank Ferguson, Bing Crosby, Nella Walker
Roles Veronica Lake
Rating62%
Saigon (1947)
, 1h33Directed by Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky
Roles Susan Cleaver
Rating61%
World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs finds out that his friend Mike has only a short time to live but doesn't know yet. Determined to show Mike a good time before he dies, Larry takes a flying job working for a profiteer, Maris. Everything is set until Maris' secretary Susan Cleaver gets shoved on board. Mike falls for Susan and Larry convinces her to play along. Susan, however, has fallen for Larry.
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
, 1h35Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Joyce Harwood
Rating70%
Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) is put on the inactive list. He returns home to Hollywood from the fighting in the south Pacific, bringing along his buddies and medically discharged crewmates Buzz Wanchek (William Bendix) and George Copeland (Hugh Beaumont). Buzz is prone to memory lapses and headaches, and is often short tempered, all likely due to his head wound.
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
, 1h28Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Lillian Gish, Joan Caulfield, Bill Edwards, Ray Collins
Roles Nan Rogers
Rating63%
A nursing student falls in love with a young medical intern in 1910 Baltimore, but their lives start to fall apart when he catches a deadly disease.
Duffy's Tavern (1945)
, 1h37Directed by Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Ed Gardner, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake
Roles Veronica Lake
Rating58%
En 1945, aux Etats-Unis, un aubergiste et un patron de studio d'enregistrement recrutent des stars d'Hollywood pour qu'elles aident à renflouer leurs entreprises. Une adaptation d'un "Radio Show" très célèbre aux Etats-Unis composée de plusieurs sketches où apparaissent les stars fantastiques de la Paramount.
Bring on the Girls (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Peter Whitney, Alan Mowbray
Roles Teddy Collins
Rating60%
Ce film en couleurs et en partie musical est une adaptation de L'Homme qui cherche la vérité, film français d'Alexander Esway sorti en 1940.
Hold That Blonde! (1945)
, 1h16Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Albert Dekker, Frank Fenton (Moran), George Zucco, Donald MacBride
Roles Sally Martin
Rating62%