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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)

Most Recent Appearance

 
Broadway Television Theatre
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.

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Veronica's hairstyle was a favorite of and often worn by late R & B singer Aaliyah. (edit)
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." (edit)
Veronica got into acting because her mother believed it would treat her condition, that being she was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. (edit)
Veronica used the proceeds from her autobiography to produce Flesh Feast (1970), her last film. (edit)
Veronica appeared in a magazine advertisement for Calox Tooth Powder in 1941. (edit)

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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. (edit)
Veronica Lake: I certainly would have preferred to have made my mark in Hollywood's shortest hairstyle. Everything would have been easier. (edit)
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. (edit)
Veronica Lake: You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. (edit)
Veronica Lake: I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. (edit)
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