9. The Star Of I Married A Witch Had Schizophrenia
Veronica Lake was an early movie seductress who turned millions of heads a full decade before Marilyn Monroe came onto the scene. She had an uncontrollable temperament as a child, due to childhood schizophrenia; her parents got her into acting because they thought that it would help control her behavior.
The young Veronica was known to have uncontrollable behavior while she was on the set. According to a magazine article published in 1944, people who worked with her speculated about “what precise moment her time-bomb mind will explode.” But Lake, full of charm, shrugged the comment off by saying that she has an imaginative mind.