Veronica Lake Net Worth
Veronica Lake Net Worth is
$19 Million
Veronica Lake Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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. | Full Name | Veronica Lake |
| Date Of Birth | November 14, 1922, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | July 7, 1973, Burlington, Vermont, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 4' 11½" (1.51 m) |
| Profession | Actress, Soundtrack, Producer |
| Education | Miami High School, Villa Maria |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Robert Carleton-Munro (m. 1972–1973) |
| Children | Andre Michael De Toth III, Elaine Detlie, Diana De Toth, William Detlie |
| Parents | Harry E. Ockelman, Constance Charlotta Trimble |
| Movies | Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire, I Married a Witch, The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key, I Wanted Wings, Flesh Feast, So Proudly We Hail!, Ramrod, The Hour Before the Dawn, Slattery's Hurricane, Miss Susie Slagle's, The Sainted Sisters, Forty Little Mothers, Bring on the Girls, All Women Have Secre... |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Petite frame |
| 2 | Short stature |
| 3 | Voluptuous figure |
| 4 | 'Peekaboo' hairstyle, covering right side of forehead and sometimes partly over right eye. |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Footsteps in the Snow (1966) | $10,000 |
| Isn't It Romantic? (1948) | $4,000 @week |
| Isn't It Romantic? (1948) | $4,000 /week |
| The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) | $4,500 /week |
| The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) | $4,500 /week |
| The Glass Key (1942) | $350 /week |
| This Gun for Hire (1942) | $350 /week |
| I Wanted Wings (1941) | $75 /week |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | If I had stayed in Hollywood I would have ended up like Alan Ladd and Gail Russell--dead and buried by now. That rat race killed them and I knew it would kill me, so I had to get out. I was never psychologically meant to be a picture star. I never took it seriously. I couldn't "live" being a"'movie star" and I couldn't "camp" it, and I hated being something I wasn't. |
| 2 | I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain. |
| 3 | There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamor left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way. |
| 4 | [on performing with Fredric March in I Married a Witch (1942)] He treated me like dirt under his talented feet. Of all actors to end up under the covers with. That happened in one scene and Mr. March is lucky he didn't get my knee in his groin. |
| 5 | [on her screen test for I Wanted Wings (1941)] My hair kept falling over one eye and I kept brushing it back. I thought I had ruined my chances for the role. But Hornblow [producer Arthur Hornblow] was jubilant about that eye-hiding trick. An experienced showman, he knew that the hairstyle was something people would talk about. He had a big picture and lots of talk would bring customers to see it. |
| 6 | [on Marlon Brando] Our romance was short but sweet. He was on the dawn of a brilliant film career, and I was in the twilight of one. Of course, my career could never compare with his. |
| 7 | [on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked. |
| 8 | [on Alan Ladd] Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together. |
| 9 | Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. |
| 10 | [1970, reflecting on her career] I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter. I'm no longer interested in doing what's expected of me. I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that. |
| 11 | I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Was 8 months pregnant with her daughter Elaine when she completed filming Sullivan's Travels (1941). |
| 2 | Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her daughter Elaine to begin filming This Gun for Hire (1942). |
| 3 | R&B singer/actress Aaliyah tailored her signature hairstyle from Veronica Lake's signature bangs. |
| 4 | Died five days after Betty Grable. |
| 5 | When Lake's former husband, André De Toth, wrote his autobiography "Fragments" in 1964, his comments about his ex-wife were brief and relatively sympathetic. He paints her as a woman destroyed by a sad childhood and overly domineering mother. |
| 6 | Lake's mother sued her daughter for non-support during the 1940s. |
| 7 | In her biography "Peekaboo" Lake's mother claims her daughter was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, which she alleges was responsible for her alcoholism, numerous infidelities, mood swings, and vindictiveness. |
| 8 | Along with Rita Hayworth', Lauren Bacall, and Gene Tierney she was one of four inspirations that helped create the character Jessica Rabbit. |
| 9 | When former lover Marlon Brando read in a newspaper that a reporter had found Veronica Lake working as a cocktail waitress in a Manhattan bar, he instructed his accountant to send her a check for a thousand dollars. Out of pride, she never cashed it, but kept it framed in her Miami living room to show her friends. |
| 10 | Actor Stewart Stafford lived the first three years of his life in her old apartment in New York (her name was still visible inside the mailbox). |
| 11 | Her third husband, Joseph Allen McCarthy, wrote lyrics for many Cy Coleman songs, among them "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life" and "Why Try To Change Me Now?" sung by Frank Sinatra. McCarthy's father, Joseph McCarthy, was also a lyricist; his most famous songs are "You Made Me Love You" and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows.". |
| 12 | In Italy, all her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. She was only dubbed once by another actress: Clelia Bernacchi (in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)). |
| 13 | Her ashes sat on a funeral home's shelf until 1976 when her cremation was paid for and supposedly spread on the Florida coastline. Some 30 years after her death, her ashes resurfaced in a New York antique store in October 2004. |
| 14 | Cousin of actress Helene Marshall. |
| 15 | She and Alan Ladd made 7 movies together: The Blue Dahlia (1946), Duffy's Tavern (1945), The Glass Key (1942), Saigon (1948), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), This Gun for Hire (1942) and Variety Girl (1947). In Variety Girl (1947), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) and Duffy's Tavern (1945) they appear as themselves. |
| 16 | Kim Basinger won an Oscar as "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for portraying a prostitute who is supposed to look like Lake. |
| 17 | She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6918 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 18 | During World War Two, the rage for her peek-a-boo bangs became a hazard when women in the defense industry would get their bangs caught in machinery. Lake had to take a publicity picture in which she reacted painfully to her hair getting "caught" in a drill press in order to heighten public awareness about the hazard of her hairstyle. |
| 19 | Daughter-in-law of Joseph McCarthy. |
| 20 | Got her big break when teamed with the only actor in Hollywood relatively near to her in height, Alan Ladd. Ladd was 5' 6" and she was just 4' 11". |
| 21 | A 1943 Paramount newsreel shows her adopting an upswept hairdo at the behest of War Womanpower Commission, to discourage "peekaboo bangs" on Rosie the Riveter. |
| 22 | An accomplished aviatrix, she took up flying in 1946 and in 1948 flew her small plane from Los Angeles to New York. |
| 23 | Children: Elaine Detlie, b. 21 August 1941; William Detlie, lived 8-15 July 1943; Andre Michael De Toth III, b. 25 October 1945; Diana De Toth, b. 16 October 1948. |
| 24 | Her height variously given as "barely five feet" to 5' 2" Photos indicate the shorter height. |
| 25 | Birth year usually given as 1919 but her autobiography and Lenburg's highly negative biography both indicate 1922. The 1920 United States Census shows that her father Harry Ockelman is unmarried and childless, while in 1930 Constance is listed as seven years old. |
| 26 | Lake's parents were Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, a seaman who died in a ship explosion in February 1932. Lake's paternal grandfather, Harry Ockelman, was German, and her paternal grandmother, Alice Marie Collins, was Irish. Lake's maternal grandparents, James F. Trimble and Frances Comer, were both born in New York, both of them to Irish immigrants. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flesh Feast | 1970 | Dr. Elaine Frederick | |
| Footsteps in the Snow | 1966 | ||
| Broadway Television Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Nancy Willard |
| Danger | 1953 | TV Series | |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1950-1953 | TV Series | Beverly / Lou / Stormy Denton |
| Goodyear Playhouse | 1952 | TV Series | Judy 'Leni' Howard |
| Tales of Tomorrow | 1952 | TV Series | Paula Martin Bennett |
| Betty Crocker Star Matinee | 1952 | TV Series | |
| Celanese Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Abby Fane |
| Stronghold | 1951 | Mary Stevens | |
| Somerset Maugham TV Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | Valerie |
| Lights Out | 1950 | TV Series | Mercy Device |
| Slattery's Hurricane | 1949 | Dolores Grieves | |
| Isn't It Romantic? | 1948 | Candy Cameron | |
| The Sainted Sisters | 1948 | Letty Stanton | |
| Saigon | 1948 | Susan Cleaver | |
| Ramrod | 1947 | Connie Dickason | |
| The Blue Dahlia | 1946 | Joyce Harwood | |
| Miss Susie Slagle's | 1946 | Nan Rogers | |
| Hold That Blonde! | 1945 | Sally Martin | |
| Duffy's Tavern | 1945 | Veronica Lake | |
| Out of This World | 1945 | Dorothy Dodge | |
| Bring on the Girls | 1945 | Teddy Collins | |
| The Hour Before the Dawn | 1944 | Dora Bruckmann | |
| So Proudly We Hail! | 1943 | Lt. Olivia D'Arcy | |
| I Married a Witch | 1942 | Jennifer | |
| The Glass Key | 1942 | Janet Henry | |
| This Gun for Hire | 1942 | Ellen Graham | |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | 1942 | Veronica Lake- 'Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang' Number | |
| Sullivan's Travels | 1941 | The Girl | |
| Hold Back the Dawn | 1941 | Movie Actress (uncredited) | |
| I Wanted Wings | 1941 | Sally Vaughn | |
| Forty Little Mothers | 1940 | Granville Girl (uncredited) | |
| Young as You Feel | 1940 | Bit part (as Constance Keane) | |
| All Women Have Secrets | 1939 | Jane (as Constance Keane) | |
| Dancing Co-Ed | 1939 | Woman on Motorcycle (uncredited) | |
| The Wrong Room | 1939 | Short | The Attorney's New Bride (as Connie Keane) |
| Sorority House | 1939 | Coed (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isn't It Romantic? | 1948 | performer: "Miss Julie July", "Indiana Dinner", "At the Nickolodeon" | |
| This Gun for Hire | 1942 | performer: "I've Got You" 1942, "Now You See It, Now You Don't" 1942 - uncredited | |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | 1942 | performer: "A Sweater, a Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo Bang" | |
| I Wanted Wings | 1941 | performer: "Born to Love" |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flesh Feast | 1970 | executive producer |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1m0ne | 2002 | Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| Your First Impression | 1963 | TV Series | Herself-- Guest |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1962 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
| Tonight! | 1956 | TV Series | Herself-- Guest |
| Stump the Stars | 1955 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Paul Winchell Show | 1952 | TV Series | Herself-- Guest |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Herself-- Guest |
| I've Got a Secret | 1952 | TV Series | Herself - Celebrity Guest |
| Hollywood Screen Test | 1952 | TV Series | Herself - - Guest |
| What's My Line? | 1951 | TV Series | Herself - Mystery Guest |
| The Ken Murray Show | 1951 | TV Series | Herself (guest) |
| Your Show of Shows | 1950 | TV Series | Herself - Guest Performer |
| This Is Show Business | 1950 | TV Series | Herself - Guest / Herself - Panelist |
| The Bert Parks Show | 1950 | TV Series | Herself - Actress |
| Variety Girl | 1947 | Herself | |
| The Eyes Have It | 1942 | Short documentary | Herself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 to 1 | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| L.A. Confidential | 1997 | Herself (uncredited) | |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | 1982 | Monica Stillpond | |
| Sixty Years of Seduction | 1981 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood and the Stars | 1964 | TV Series | Herself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6918 Hollywood Blvd. |
Known for movies
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
as The Girl
This Gun for Hire (1942)
as Ellen Graham
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
as Joyce Harwood
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Jennifer