Curiosidades

Is one of Hollywood's Youngest Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominees (Best Supporting Actress for The Bad Seed).

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, near the corner of Hollywood and Vine.

Received the Milky Way Gold Star Award as the nation's most outstanding juvenile performer of 1956.

She was awarded the 1983 Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

In the early 1950's she was one of the "spokes-children" for Red Goose Shoes, advertised on "Tom Corbett: Space Cadet" on the Dumont TV network.

As of 2020 she is the eighth-oldest living recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Angela Lansbury, Ann Blyth, Nancy Olson, Lee Grant, Terry Moore, Eva Marie Saint and Marisa Pavan. She was nominated in 1956 for Tara Maldita (1956).

Has been asked, in real life, for "Kathy O'Rourke's" autograph... and given it.

Gave birth to her first child at age 23, a son, Robert R. Catania, on July 27, 1969, with her [now ex-] husband, Robert Catania.

In 1957, she originated the role of Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" (opposite Teresa Wright as Annie Sullivan) in its initial presentation as a live TV drama on "Playhouse 90.".

Attended New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York.