Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake died of hepatitis in Burlington, Vermont at the age of 53. On April 23, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado. She also co-produced and starred in 1970's Flesh Feast, an infamous low-budget horror film that was to be her swan song. On April 3, 2002, she sustained severe injuries in a car accident in which her sport utility vehicle rolled over. After the early 1950s, she rarely appeared on screen. Boreman testified before congressional committees investigating pornography and also gave lectures on college campuses and elsewhere, always decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices of the pornography industry. Her noted movies included Sullivan's Travels, This Gun for Hire, and The Blue Dahlia. According to Boreman's 1980 autobiography Ordeal, the couple's relationship was plagued by violence, rape, prostitution and, of course, pornography.

During World War II she changed her trademark hairstyle to get her hair out of her eyes as a publicity move to encourage women working at war industries to adopt more practical hairstyles. Traynor went on to marry and guide the career of Marilyn Chambers, another major porn star. Lake popularized an iconic hairstyle, with one of her eyes always obscured by her blonde hair. For many years after the film debuted, Boreman claimed that her husband, whom she divorced in 1973, had forced her into pornography at gunpoint and that in Deep Throat itself bruises from his beatings can be seen on her legs. She was born in Brooklyn, New York with the name Constance Frances Marie Ockleman. However, several 8 mm "fetish" loops that still circulate confirm the assertions. Veronica Lake (14 November 1919 - 7 July 1973) was a popular American film actress, most famous during the 1940s. Over the years she was sometimes accused of having made zoophilia pornography before Deep Throat, a charge that she always denied.

Boreman maintained that she herself was not paid for her work in Deep Throat and that her husband, Chuck Traynor, received only $1,250 (1972 US dollars) for it even though the film would eventually gross an estimated $600 million. After becoming famous she starred in several soft core movies, which were flops. The daughter of a policeman, Boreman made several hard core short features before making Deep Throat, perhaps the most financially successful porn movie ever. She later became an advocate against pornography and insisted on using the name Boreman.

Linda Boreman (January 10, 1949 - April 23, 2002) became famous as a pornographic actress under the stage name Linda Lovelace in the 1972 film Deep Throat.