LOS ANGELES — From the beginning, Mildred vowed that her daughter Veda would have all the things this newly blossoming post-war suburban paradise could offer.
They lived in a charming Spanish Colonial house in Glendale, the kind of place where there were more kids than cars on the street. Veda’s days were filled with stickball, piano lessons and ballet. If she fancied a dress in the display window at the Broadway or Bullocks, it would appear in a fancy box on her bed a few days later.
But this pampered childhood was not enough for Veda. She had her eye on the bigger house, the fancier car, the wealthier man — a drive for riches that would destroy her life and make her one of the greatest L.A. movie villains of all time…