Wissenswertes

Was engaged for several years to actor Lee Tracy whom she met on the set of the 1933 comedy Bombshell but nothing ever came of it and by the end of the 1930s the engagement was broken off due to lack of fulfillment.

Was in five Oscar Best Picture nominees: Flucht aus Paris (1935), In den Fesseln von Shangri-La (1937), Vom Winde verweht (1939), Jede Frau braucht einen Engel (1947) and Die Schlangengrube (1948). Gone with the Wind won Best Picture of 1939.

She is profiled in the 2016 book, "Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood" by Axel Nissen.

Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.

She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.