“Veronica Lake, one of the screen’s leading ... “He had asked his father, Lake’s 3rd ex-husband the director Andre de Toth, for money to fly to Vermont, but was met with obscenities ...

Her father’s death in a shipboard explosion ... In the at-times mean-spirited Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake by Jeff Lenburg, her bitter mother claims Lake’s problems were much more ...