- Her mother was a concert singer who traveled. In later years her mother became a diction and vocal coach and taught microphone technique for talking pictures.
- Her paternal grandfather, Simon Lake, was the inventor of the modern submarine.
- Her sister Marion was once a secretary to columnist Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby").
- Younger sister of actress Ann Sothern.
- Aunt of Tisha Sterling.
- Wrote several popular standards such as "Sandman", "I've Got Your Number" and "Gracias" - songs later recorded by such big band stars as Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. In the 1940s, she founded the Bonnie Lake Music Publishing Company.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Robert Sterling and Roger Pryor.
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