Elaine detlie

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. 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, elaine detlie instructed his accountant to send her a check for a thousand dollars.

American actress best known for her sultry hairstyle. Name variations: Constance Keane. In her first major film, I Wanted Wings , Veronica Lake launched a national craze by wearing her long blonde hair seductively cascading over one eye in what came to be known as the "peek-a-boo" style. The fad reached problematic proportions, however, when women working in war plants began getting their long hair caught in the machinery. Government officials petitioned Paramount to redo the star's golden tresses. Lake's film career, it seems, did not outlive her famous hair-do much longer, all but coming to a halt after her picture Saigon. The diminutive actress 5'2" was born in Brooklyn, New York , in , the daughter of a seaman who died when she was

Elaine detlie

Veronica Lake began her life in Broolyn, N. Her father Harry, was a ship's master for an oil company and died in a ship explosion in A year later, her mother, Constance married Anthony Keane, an artist for the New York Herald, and moved to Montreal, Canada where "Veronica" attended Villa Maria, a Roman Catholic boarding school until being expelled in for bad behavior. The family moved to Miami, Florida in , where "Veronica" entered the "Miss Miami" sponsered by her high school and won third place. As a finalist, she was competed for the "Miss Florida" title and won, but had her titled revoked when it was discovered she was too young to participate in the contest. Vaudeville star Harry Richman had been one of the judges and suggested to "Veronica" and her mother that she should consider going to Hollywood. In , the family moved to Hollywood, and "Veronica" enrolled in the Bliss Hayden School of acting in Beverly Hills, CA, and started performing as an extra on movie sets around town using the name Connie Keane. Her first screen test was unsuccessful. To become more marketable, and to have more independence, "Veronica" and her mother decided to raise her age by three years, and to indicate that she had graduated high school before coming to Hollywood which is why some bios refer to her birth-year as It was in MGM's Forty Little Mothers , that the "peek a boo" look accidentally occured during filming, and was promoted as a hair style. It was during this time she was given the name by a studio head of Veronica Lake.

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Paramount Pictures, Sullivan's Travels is a satire on the film industry, following a famous Hollywood comedy director Joel McCrea who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor aspiring actress simply called "The Girl" Veronica Lake who accompanies him on his journey. Sullivan says in the film, "There's always a girl in the picture. Haven't you ever been to the movies? Veronica Lake was six months pregnant when shooting began on this film, and, according to her autobiography, refrained from telling director Sturges until after filming began. Sturges was furious when he learned of it and, according to Lake, "it took physical restraint to keep him from boiling over at me. Near the end of the film, Sturges himself can be glimpsed on camera behind "The Girl" as she reads the newspaper on a movie set.

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Elaine detlie

Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. 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.

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Her marriage to DeToth, with whom she had a son Andre and a daughter Diana, was fraught with ego battles and money woes and ended unofficially in , two years after DeToth directed her in Slattery's Hurricane Confidential Already the veteran of several beauty contests and anxious to break into movies, Lake accompanied a friend to RKO Studios, where she landed a small part in the movie Sorority House Fans from many countries sent checks to her, which sshe returned due to pride. This opened the way for other bigger movie roles. Lakehead University. Lakeland, Paul —. Lake divorced Detlie in and was subsequently linked with millionaires Aristotle Onassis and Howard Hughes , as well as director Jean Negulesco. Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her daughter Elaine to begin filming This Gun for Hire She is the granddaughter of Harry E. According to his Wikipedia page , he was the one who directed the camouflage of a factory plant called Boeing Plant 2.

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Lake was among the first well-known film stars to embrace making appearances on television, which in the early s was largely shunned by Hollywood. Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. In , she married songwriter Joe McCarthy, but the union was stormy and lasted only three years. Fans from many countries sent checks to her, which sshe returned due to pride. The children, out of necessity, were shuttled back and forth between their father in California and their mother in New York. Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her daughter Elaine to begin filming This Gun for Hire Name variations: Constance Keane. She is the granddaughter of Harry E. She attended St. No Thanks. Retrieved February 21, from Encyclopedia.