Two years before her death, Veronica Lake talked about writing a cookbook. “It will not specialize in 1,000 chocolate chip recipes or what to do with leftover potato chips,” said the former ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...

Veronica Lake, a femme fatale icon of 1940s Hollywood noir, was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman on Nov. 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. Small in stature — she was less than five feet tall ...

“I’ve always been a dreamer of good dreams,” Veronica Lake once wrote. “Any bad dreams are turned away in mid-air.” One of the defining sex symbols of the 1940s, Lake’s life at first ...

Veronica Lake, one of the top actresses of Hollywood during the 1940s, had a tragic ending to her life. (Getty) When Sue Cameron went to interview one of the most sought-after pinups of World War ...

Mission accomplished. Or so Bain thought. The years passed, Toman died, Roos fell out of touch with Bain — and then, 28 years later, Lake’s ashes reappeared, along with an odd story of ownership.

Veronica Lake, a screen siren who ... had a tragic ending to her life. (Getty) ... The Los Angeles Times added that in her later years, Lake rarely saw her children. By the 1960s, ...

With her peek-a-boo blond hairdo and sultry looks, Veronica Lake was the "it-girl" of the 1940s silver screen. When she died penniless three decades later, her ashes sat anonymously in a funeral ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...

There was no fame in the 1940s quite like Hollywood fame, and Veronica Lake had it. Her career in film rose during that decade, starting in 1941 with William Holden in “I Wanted Wings” and ...