- Marlon Brando acknowledged her and director Elia Kazan as his real mentors.
- She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6777 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 4, 2006.
- She was blacklisted by Hollywood.
- When she went to Hollywood and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio changed her name to Stella Ardler. Her younger brother Luther, who originated the role of Joe Napoleon in "Golden Boy" on the Broadway stage, wanted to know why MGM had not changed her name to Beverly Wilshire.
- Older sister of fellow Group Theatre company member Luther Adler.
- One of six children of Jacob P. Adler and Sarah Adler.
- Sister of Jay Adler and Luther Adler.
- Mother of Ellen Adler (the mother of Tom Oppenheim).
- She appeared in four Broadway plays with her brother Luther Adler: John Howard Lawson's "Success Story" Melvin Levy's "Gold Eagle Guy," and two plays by Clifford Odets: "Paradise Lost" and "Awake and Sing!" Both Lawson and Odets were Communist Party members: Lawson was jailed as one of the "Hollywood Ten," while Odets named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Daughter of Jacob P. Adler, the greatest actor of the Yiddish theater.
- Grandmother of Tom Oppenheim
- Following her death, she was interred at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, New York.
- Some of her most famous alumni include Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, Cloris Leachman, Robert De Niro, Salma Hayek, James Coburn, Shelley Hack, and John Saxon.
- She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 3, 1991-1993, pages 9-11. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
- Mentioned in She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya as one of Ouspenskaya's acting students.
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