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THBVeronica Lake (1922-1973) American, Framed Memorabilia with Signature
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Bill Mack Swarovsky Crystal Sculpture, Movie Ephemera, Modern Furniture, Art Glass Sculptures, Park West Gallery Artworks, and more. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Veronica Lake (1922-1973) American, Framed Memorabilia with Signature. Black and white headshot above with the signature below, both isolated in the frame.
Overall Size: 16 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Picture Size: 9 x 6 in.
Autograph Size: 1 x 3 in.
#6224 .
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman was born on November 14th, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. She did poorly in school, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and developed a reputation for being dramatic and an early-blooming beauty. The family moved to Miami, Florida when she was in her teens, and then Beverly Hills, California in 1938. While briefly under contract to MGM she enrolled in that studio’s acting farm, the Bliss-Hayden School of Acting (now the Beverly Hills Playhouse). Her first film appearance was as an extra in RKO’s Sorority House (1939). She attracted the interest of Fred Wilcox, an assistant director, who helped her find an agent. The agent introduced her to producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., who was looking for a new girl to play the part of a nightclub singer in the military drama I Wanted Wings (1941). Hornblow changed the actress’s name to Veronica Lake, and the film became a big hit, making the teenage Lake a star overnight. A slip of her long hair over one eye during a take led to her signature look, and the film’s success led many women to copy her style. Paramount quickly cast her in several upcoming productions which made her the face of the femme fatale stereotype in film noir for a decade. During World War II she traveled throughout the country to raise money for war bonds and became one of the most popular pin-up girls for soldiers. The government requested that she change her look to help decrease accidents involving women getting their hair caught in machinery, and although she complied it damaged her career. The premature birth of her son due to a film set accident and his death shortly thereafter led her to take a brief break from filming as well as getting divorced from her first husband, and further complications from her erratic personality and alcoholism led her career to a standstill by the early 1950s. In 1951 her home was seized for unpaid taxes, and she left California for New York. She drifted between hotels in the City, was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and after disappearing for a time she was eventually found working as a waitress in a cocktail lounge. Fans sent her money through the mail, all of which she returned out of pride, but the incident did lead her to work on Broadway and in television for a time. After two more failed marriages and an unsuccessful attempt to revive her film career in the mid 1960s, she published her autobiography in 1970, the same year she starred in her final screen role in the low-budget horror film Flesh Feast. In 1973 she visited a local doctor while traveling in Vermont, complaining of stomach pains. She was discovered to have cirrhosis of the liver as a result of her years of drinking, and on July 7th of that year she died at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington from acute hepatitis and kidney injury. Her impact on film history was long-lasting, with characters in films frequently modeled after her and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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16 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
