- She was the only one of John Barrymore's former wives to attend his funeral in 1942.
- To help Christopher Plummer prepare for a one-man show on John Barrymore on Broadway in 1997, she showed him Barrymore's love letters.
- The daughter of a traveling salesman, she claims she was first mesmerized by John Barrymore watching him in the 1931 film Svengali (1931) and vowed to marry him. She didn't actually meet him until 1935 at age 19 while a student at Hunter College. He was 53.
- After her divorce from John Barrymore, she ran a business importing straw baskets and handbags from Haiti.
- As a Hunter College student of 19, she wrote an adoring letter to John Barrymore, then 53 and hospitalized in Manhattan. He phoned her, they had a pleasant talk and he invited her to visit him. There was a most meaningful kiss in his hospital room.
- She was the first of John Barrymore's four wives to use the Barrymore name professionally, and the first to undress onstage.
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