LIFE legend Veronica Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman 95 years ago today on Nov. 14,1922 in Brooklyn, NY. In the May 17, or 1943 issue,LIFE ran a myth approximately how she became “Hollywood’s Cyclops Cinderella.” This image ran in the myth with the following caption: “A one-eyed hair-do, Miss. Lake confesses, and is better suited to sheep dogs than to working girls. She seldom wore it off location,and has given it up for the duration by request of the War Manpower Commission. The Commission feared that would-be Veronica Lakes in war plants would endanger themselves by working half-blind near machinery.” (Bob Landry—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #VeronicaLake
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