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Veronica Lake Trivia
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- Her height variously given as "barely five feet" to 5' 2" Photos indicate the shorter height.
- A 1943 Paramount newsreel shows her adopting an upswept hairdo at the behest of War Womanpower Commission, to discourage "peekaboo bangs" on Rosie the Riveter.
- Birth year usually given as 1919 but her autobiography and Lenburg's highly negative biography both indicate 1922.
- Women in the 1940s (and even Kim Basinger 50 years later for the movie L.A. Confidential (1997)) lost most or all of their hair trying to copy her platinum blonde hair color.
- An accomplished aviatrix.
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