In the 1940s, Veronica Lake rocketed to stardom only for it all to spiral out of control and be over in a flash. By age twenty-nine, she was washed up with her career on the ash heap of movie history ending tragically after years of personal struggles with paranoid schizophrenia and alcoholism that set her on a path of self-destruction and put her so far out of reach that not even her mother’s love could save her in the end in this fully revised and copiously illustrated biography.