Lake Veronica - American Actress.

Discover the biography of Veronica Lake, as well as anecdotes, quotations of Veronica Lake.

Biography of Veronica LakeStar of Hollywood to the ondoyante hair platinizes, Veronica Lake was the vamp blonde who threw into a panic shadies and detectives of black films. Showing gifts of actress as of the early childhood with the theatre of its class, with the help of an ambitious mother who pushes her to take courses in Bliss Hayden School of Acting that she is made located by an agent which makes her first role in a first film ‘ Sorority house’ in 1939.

Her hot voice with the Scandinavian accent and her fairness allures the public which fall in love with this young seductresses from Hollywood.It is at the sides of Alan Ladd, which she forms a couple in the line of Bacall and Bogart, that she triumphs in ‘ Killers with gages’ in 1942, ‘ the Key of glass’ or ‘ Hold that Blonde’… Meanwhile, she also turns of the comedies like ‘ the Trip of Sullivan’ and famous ‘ the My woman is a Whitch’ of Rene Clair, who differently emphasizes the young actress.

In 1946, ‘Bleu Dalhia’ marks the apogee of her career and the limits of the talent of Veronica Lake, confined in roles of devourer of men icy and soft of which it is not able to be dissociated.On the decline in spite of some supposed films to go up her dimension with the boxoffice, like ‘ Slatterry’s hurricane’ in 1949 and ‘ Stronghold’ in 1951, it does not remain to her any more that the recourse to appear with television, thing which she has evil to be satisfied, the old the vamp of the studios.

Other demons appear with her glory décreaseing gradually, she sinks in alcoholism. After a last appearance with the cinema in 1966 in ‘ Footsteps in the Snow’ and another on the small screen in 1970 in ‘ Flesh Feast’, a film with small budget, Veronica Lake dies prematurely at aged of 54 years, victim of hepatitis, consequence of excess specific to old glories having violently lived their rise and their fall.Anecdotes on Veronica Lake

Fatal imitation the famous hairstyle of the actress, long wick of notched hair covering a part of the face, made fury in the years 1940, in particular the workers.This coquettery was the cause of serious accidents, the wick of hair being caught in the machines, so much so that the government expressly asked Paramount to change the look of Veronica Lake.

Deprived of her ‘ mark of fabrique’, this change contributed to the fall of her career. Vamp not pot, in spite of appearances, Veronica Lake was far from being the creature longiligne which one thought, nor to be large asparagus as could make it believe the misleading objective of the cameras.

Indeed, the actress was a small woman slightly measure about 5′2 inches!