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Veronica Lake

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Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. Her success did not last; she had a string of broken marriages and long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism until she died of hepatitis. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veronica Lake, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

14-11-1922

Birthday

Scorpio

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

31

Total Films

Βερόνικα Λέικ, Veronika Leyk

Also known as (female)

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

31 Works

producer

1 Works

director

1 Works

writer

0 Works

other

0 Works

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
6.6

Year:

1982

Flesh Feast

Flesh Feast

A doctor in Florida conducts shady experiments involving maggots and stolen body parts, which may be in preparation for a larger plot.
3.4

Year:

1970

Footsteps in the Snow

Footsteps in the Snow

An overprotective mother (Veronica Lake) goes to great lengths to thwart her daughter's (Meredith MacRae) budding romance.
0.0

Year:

1966

Stronghold

Stronghold

In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.
5.7

Year:

1951

Slattery's Hurricane

Slattery's Hurricane

A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
5.4

Year:

1949

Isn't It Romantic?

Isn't It Romantic?

Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.
7.0

Year:

1948

The Sainted Sisters

The Sainted Sisters

Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
7.0

Year:

1948

Saigon

Saigon

After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.
5.3

Year:

1947

Variety Girl

Variety Girl

Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
6.1

Year:

1947

Ramrod

Ramrod

A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
6.4

Year:

1947

The Blue Dahlia

The Blue Dahlia

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
6.6

Year:

1946

Miss Susie Slagle's

Miss Susie Slagle's

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
10.0

Year:

1946

Hold That Blonde!

Hold That Blonde!

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
6.4

Year:

1945

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
6.1

Year:

1945

Out of This World

Out of This World

An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract.
7.3

Year:

1945

Bring on the Girls

Bring on the Girls

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
6.1

Year:

1945

The Hour Before the Dawn

The Hour Before the Dawn

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
5.0

Year:

1944

So Proudly We Hail

So Proudly We Hail

During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
5.5

Year:

1943

I Married a Witch

I Married a Witch

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
6.8

Year:

1942

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
6.6

Year:

1942

This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
6.9

Year:

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star Spangled Rhythm

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
5.9

Year:

1942

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
7.4

Year:

1941

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
6.6

Year:

1941

I Wanted Wings

I Wanted Wings

Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
5.1

Year:

1941

Forty Little Mothers

Forty Little Mothers

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
6.2

Year:

1940

Young as You Feel

Young as You Feel

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
0.0

Year:

1940

All Women Have Secrets

All Women Have Secrets

When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
5.0

Year:

1939

Dancing Co-Ed

Dancing Co-Ed

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
6.2

Year:

1939

The Wrong Room

The Wrong Room

Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.
0.0

Year:

1939

Sorority House

Sorority House

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
6.8

Year:

1939