In the film "L.A. Confidential" Kim Basinger is made up to look like which star?

"L.A. Confidential" is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland is based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel "L.A. Confidential". In the film, Wendell "Bud" White (Russell Crowe), a police officer, encounters Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), a prostitute resembling Veronica Lake, and former cop Leland "Buzz" Meeks. These two now work for Pierce Patchett, whose Fleur-de-Lis service runs high-end prostitutes altered by plastic surgery to resemble film stars.

In total, the film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine 'Confidential', portrayed in the film as 'Hush-Hush'.

Veronica Lake (Constance Frances Marie Ockleman) was born in November 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 50 in 1973. She was an American film, stage, and TV star best known for her trademark 'peek-a-boo' hairstyle. She was one of Hollywood’s greatest icons, best known for "Sullivan’s Travels" and "The Blue Dahlia".

Film critics said, "She had a timeless magnetic screen personality who luckily got her name ‘Veronica Lake’ from a producer’s inspiration." Her early successes in beauty pageants led her to Hollywood, where she became Hollywood’s biggest ‘it’ girl of the 1940’s.

After both success (1939—1954) and failure, she rediscovered acting in later years while living in Miami, Fl.