Trivia

Portrayed by Diane Lane in Hollywoodland (2006).

Raised in Rochester, New York by a Russian-French Jewish father and a French-Canadian Catholic mother. Fourth oldest child of eleven children.

First husband Jesse Livermore Jr. was the son of infamous Wall Street speculator Jesse Livermore. The younger Livermore gained infamy in 1935 when he was nearly killed by his mother: he dared her to shoot him after she told him she would rather see him dead than see him drink to excess; both were drunk at the time. He was just 18 when he married Toni in Palm Springs, CA.

When Lanier signed her contract for the film, The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Lloyd's of London insured her legs each for $25,000.

Her eldest sibling, Emanuel Joseph Bernard Froomess, became the Hollywood comic writer, Eddie Forman.

"Camille Lanier" served as her stage name in Broadway and Ziegfeld productions in the 1920s. Best known as "Toni Lanier" among friends and in newspaper and magazine articles from the 1930s and 1940s before she married E.J. Mannix in 1951.

Former sister-in-law of Paul Livermore.