- Suffering from severe arthritis and impending blindness, Blandick fixed her hair, dressed up in her best outfit, placed her favorite photos and memorabilia around her room and took her own life by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets and putting a plastic bag over her head for good measure. Her suicide note read: "I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.".
- Played different roles in different screen versions of "Huckleberry Finn." In Huckleberry Finn (1931), she played Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly, a carryover from Tom Sawyer (1930), in which she played the same role. In 1939 she played the role of Miss Watson in Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1939).
- Best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy's Auntie Em in Le Magicien d'Oz (1939).
- She was cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale in its crematory. Her ashes were entombed inside its Great Mausoleum. There was no funeral or memorial service for her.
- Had no children.
- Made her Broadway debut in 1901, in the original run of 'If I Were King', by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
- Appeared in three Broadway shows with May Irwin between 1913 and 1915. Orlando Daly and Lynn Pratt appeared in at least two of these productions.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Le Magicien d'Oz (1939) & En route pour le Maroc (1942).
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