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Playing cooks for most her career, in real life Louise detested cooking.

In 1976 she, along with Josephine Baker and Canada Lee were posthumously inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

Despite the fact that she was given fourth billing in Imitation of Life (1934), her role was nearly equal in importance to Claudette Colbert's, and was the first instance of a Hollywood film in which a black woman's maternal problems were given equal importance to those of the leading white character in a film.

A member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of four African-American sororities at the time.

Louise was only a year older than actress Fredi Washington, who played her daughter in Imitation of Life (1934).

Her husband, Leroy Moore, was a professional chef.

Louise died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California on October 26, 1962, exactly a decade to the day as her famed counterpart Hattie McDaniel.

Appeared as a contestant on a 1961 episode of the Groucho Marx TV series "You Bet Your Life".

Before becoming an actress, Beavers was the maid for actress Leatrice Joy.

Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

Was a registered Republican.

African-American screen, television, and minstrel actress.

Beavers' most widely seen role was playing the title character in the 1950s sitcom Beulah, which she "inherited" when Ethel Waters left the series after two seasons. Once again playing a "salt of the Earth," world-wise housemaid, Beavers appeared in the final 33 episodes of the show.

Parents are: Ernestine Monroe, and William M. Beavers.

Cousin of George Beavers, Jr.