Lila Leeds

In the 1970s, she received renewed press attention when it was discovered that she had returned to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, where she had studied religion and become a dedicated volunteer at local missions and helping to raise money for the Shriners. She kept her distance from the movie business, and died without fanfare in 1999, aged 71.

Only two weeks after her release from prison, as she sped along the Sunset Strip in her car, she crashed into another vehicle which had stopped at a red light. She suffered a broken arm and other injuries. Disillusioned with Hollywood and her continued misfortune, she finally left Los Angeles in 1949. She lived in various places, mostly in the Midwest, generally working in nightclubs. She married and divorced twice more, and had three children, Shawn, Ivan and Laura. Her children were in and out of orphanages while she was in trouble. She settled in Chicago with her third husband, pianist Irving Rochlin, who once tried to rob a gas station to support his own drug habit.

She was an actress, known for Moonrise (1948), Lady in the Lake (1946) and The Show-Off (1946). She was married to Irvin Rochlin, Dean O. McCollom and Jack Little.

Lila Leeds was born on January 28, 1928 in Dodge City, Kansas, USA as Lila Lee Wilkinson.