Most Recent Role: Nancy Willard on Broadway Television Theatre
Alias Name(s): Constance Keane, Connie Keane, Constance Marie Keane, Connie Ockleman, Constance Frances Marie Ockleman, The Peek-A-Boo Girl, Veronica Detlie
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 11-14-1919
Birth Name: Constance Frances Marie Ockleman
Date of Death: 7-7-1973
Cause of Death: Hepatitis and acute renal failure (from alcoholism)
Alias Name(s): Constance Keane, Connie Keane, Constance Marie Keane, Connie Ockleman, Constance Frances Marie Ockleman, The Peek-A-Boo Girl, Veronica Detlie
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: 11-14-1919
Birth Name: Constance Frances Marie Ockleman
Date of Death: 7-7-1973
Cause of Death: Hepatitis and acute renal failure (from alcoholism)
Most Recent Appearance
Gramercy Ghost
Monday 4 January 1954 on Syndicated
A woman inherits a brownhouse in historic Gramercy Park. After moving in the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier also resides there and she falls in love with him.
Veronica's hairstyle was a favorite of and often worn by late R & B singer Aaliyah.
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Veronica annoyed her I Married A Witch (1942) co-star Frederic March so much, with repeated takes and practical jokes like concealing a 40-pound weight on herself for a scene where he carried her up the stairs, that he was often quoted as calling the film "I Married A Bitch."
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Veronica got into acting because her mother believed it would treat her condition, that being she was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
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Veronica used the proceeds from her autobiography to produce Flesh Feast (1970), her last film.
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Veronica appeared in a magazine advertisement for Calox Tooth Powder in 1941.
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Veronica Lake: I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
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Veronica Lake: I certainly would have preferred to have made my mark in Hollywood's shortest hairstyle. Everything would have been easier.
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Veronica Lake: Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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Veronica Lake: You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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Veronica Lake: I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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Other Appearances
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Broadway Television Theatre
Gramercy Ghost Nancy Willard |
Celanese Theatre
Brief Moment Abby Fane |
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Danger
Inside Straight |
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Better than Walking Judy 'Leni' Howard |
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Lights Out
Beware This Woman Mercy Device |
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
The Facts of Life Valerie |
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DNAČ
Tomoko Saeki *English* |
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