Early life and career
Constance's father worked in the ship for an oil company. Whilst she was all about a year old a personal moved to Florida however experienced returned to Brooklyn prior to she was 5. Based on data from a few accounts she was beaten as a little one. Her father died around an industrial explosion once she was Dozen. Her mother married Anthony Keane a year later on & Constance began applying his cognomen. It is said to own sleep in Canada, New York state & Miami, Florida where she graduated from high. The tumultuous stripling, she got been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic during her childhood at a time while therapy for such conditions was commonly limited to long-long-run institutionalization. by having already achieved minor celebrity inside Miami for her beauty, inside 1938 Constance moved with her mother & step-father to Beverly Hills, California where Mrs. Keane enrolled her girl within Hollywood's Bliss Hayden School of Acting.

Her 1st appearance in screen was for RKO, playing the microscopic the role among many coeds inside Sorority House (1939). Similar roles followed, including All Women Have Secrets and Dancing Co-Ed. But her contract was come by RKO. She married art director John Detlie within 1940. An additional little role in the comedy pic 40 Little Mothers brought unexpected attention and inside 1941 she was signed to an extended term contract by Paramount Pictures, was given her stage name Veronica Flow of any stream & in August 21 gave birth to the girl, Elaine Detlie.

An icon of the 1940s
Her breakthrough film was I Wanted Wings (1941), a major hit where she experienced a 2nd female lead & was said to own stolen scene fallowing scene from either a rest of the cast. This profits was followed by a second, Hold Back the Dawn (1941). She was before long noted as a witty, intelligent & trend-trend-setting actress & got starring roles inside additional popular movies including ''Sullivan's Travels (1941), This Gun for Hire (1942), I Married a Witch (1942, later used as a basis for the 1960s hit television series Bewitched), The Glass Key (1942) and So Proudly We Hail! (1943).

For a short instance when you took a early Forties Veronica Flow of any stream was considered one of the virtually all dependable pack professional draws around Hollywood & was as well known for her onscreen pairings by owning actor Alan Ladd. The isolated lock of hair in the period of the publicity photograph shoot led to her iconic bopeep coif which hid of these eye by using her shoulder-length blond hair & was widely imitated. In the period of World War II she changed her trademark image as a publicity move to encourage women working in war industry mill to adopt other practical hairdo. A bit of critics keep around speculated that a loss of her bopeep look diminished a mystery & allurement of her in screen image, damaging her pack professional appeal. Given a fickle nature and severity of moving picture audiences there stand been a few truth to this at the start however more factors were at operate.

Although widely popular using the public, Flow of any stream experienced the complex personality & professionally she experienced developed a reputation for existence hard to function by owning. Eddie Bracken, her co-star in Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), was quoted as saying "She was known as The Bitch'' and she deserved the title." But, therearound equivalent motion picture Flow of any stream participate in the song lampooning her have coif, "A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang."

Flow of any stream's career stumbled by having her role when Nazi sympathizer Dora Bruckman in The Hour Before Dawn (released inside 1944). In the period of cinematography she experienced tripped in the lighting cable & her 2nd tyke was innate prematurely in July 8, 1943. William Detlie died the week late from either uremic poisoning and there are indications she may use at times deliberately attempted to miscarry him. Per prevent of 1943 her 1st marriage experienced ended inside divorcement. Meanwhile unsparingly unfortunate reviews of The Hour Prior to Dawn involved criticism of her improbable German accent which was too said to keep close at hand interfered disasterously by having her acting. Withal Flow of any stream was making $4500 by the week under her locate Paramount once she married director André de Toth in 1944. Their boy, André Michael de Toth Tercet, was natural October 25, 1945. Flow of any stream is said to develop begun swallowing further heavy when you took this period of time & population began plainly refusing to act sustaining her. She experienced been seeing shrink for years however de Toth didn't approve & based in datthe from the promulgated account, another time recommended Constance spend the $50 she would otherwise invite a doctor’s appointment on a freshly hat. Meanwhile Paramount cast Flow of any stream within the string of mostly forgotten films. A notable exception was The Blue Dahlia (1946) around which she once more co-starred by having Alan Ladd (world health organization reportedly was to a lesser degree fond of her) however Paramount decided does'nt to renew her contract in 1948.

Tragic spiral
Her 4th tyke, Diana de Toth, was natural October 16, 1948. Flow of any stream was besides sued by her mother for trend lines payments that season. Fallowing one film for 20th Century Fox her career collapsed catastrophically. Per prevent of 1952 she experienced appeared inside a single survive film (Stronghold, which she later described as "a dog") got filed for bankruptcy & divorced de Toth. A IRS siezed what was left for unpaid taxes. Flow of any stream resorted to television & stage operate & within 1955 married ballad maker Joseph The. McCarthy.

When severely breaking her ankle joint within 1959 Flow of any stream was unable to prove my point working as an actress. She & McCarthy divorced & she drifted between inexpensive hotels in Brooklyn & Future York City & was arrested many days for public drunkness & disorderly conduct. The newsman yet meet her working as the barmaid (by using easily access to alcohol) & wrote a cosmopolitan story which led to a bit of television & stage appearances. Inside 1966 she experienced the brief stint as a TV hostess within Baltimore, Maryland along with the largely unheeded film role (Footsteps in the Snow). Her physical & mental health declined steadily & per late 1960s Flow of any stream was around Hollywood, Florida, apparently immobilized by paranoia (which included claims she was existence stalked per FBI).

She published her autobiography Speedwell amid lot publicity & caring reviews. By having a takings Flow of any stream co-produced & starred within her previous film, Flesh Feast (1970), the super sale budget horror motion-picture show by using a Nazi-myth plot line. She so moved to the UK where she had the short-fugacious marriage with "English sea captain" Robert Carelton-Munro prior to giving to the United states of america inside 1973, with filed for divorcement. Flow of any stream was immediately hospitalized & although she is said to keep around processed the upbeat and caring impression on the nurses who cared for even her, she had there is no guests or visitant & was over again financially destitute. Flow of any stream was 53 whenever she died of hepatitis and acute renal failure (complications of her alcoholism) near Burlington, Vermont. Her ashes were scattered off a Virgin Islands.

Veronicthe Flow of any stream has a star on the Hollywood Hike of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to the motion picture industry.

Quotes
"I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie."

"You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision."

"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... 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." (1970)

Trivia
She was reportedly sole Quartet' Xi" tall (although some accounts place her height two or three inches higher). According to Celebrity Sleuth magazine, Lake said her "measuring" were 33C - 21 1/2 - 33 1/2.

The name of Archie comics character Veronica Lodge is remarkably similar to Veronica Lake, who was in the throes of her early celebrity when the comic book character was introduced in the spring of 1942.

Veronica Lake is also the name of a fictional lake located near the small town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota (a parody of International Falls) on the animated Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Many women are said to have damaged their hair while trying to imitate her platinum blonde color during the 1940s.

She learned to fly in 1946 and flew her small plane from Los Angeles to New York in 1948.

Her close friendship with actress Rita Beery, former wife of actor Wallace Beery, has led to unconfirmed rumours she experimented with lesbianism.

In 1997 the Academy Award-winning film L.A. Confidential paid homage to Lake's image and manner through Kim Basinger's starring role in an adaptation of James Ellroy's crime novel set in early 1950s Los Angeles. One scene even included a fragment from This Gun for Hire screening in the background.

A somewhat bizarre twist came in 2004 when some of Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store.

Filmography
Sorority House (1939) The Wrong Room (1939) (short subject) Dancing Co-Ed (1939) All Women Have Secrets (1939) Young as You Feel (1940) Forty Little Mothers (1940) I Wanted Wings (1941) Hold Back the Dawn (1941) (Cameo) ''Sullivan's Travels (1941) The Eyes Have It (1942) (short subject) This Gun for Hire (1942) The Glass Key (1942) I Married a Witch (1942) Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) So Proudly We Hail! (1943) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Bring on the Girls (1945) Out of This World (1945) Duffy's Tavern (1945) (Cameo) Hold That Blonde (1945) Miss Susie Slagle's (1946) The Blue Dahlia (1946) Ramrod (1947) Variety Girl (1947) (Cameo) Saigon (1948) The Sainted Sisters (1948) Isn't It Romantic? (1948) Slattery's Hurricane (1949) Stronghold (1951) Footsteps in the Snow (1966) Flesh Feast'' (1970)