Trivia

Best remembered as the blind girl selling flowers in Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931).

In her 1935 divorce from actor Cary Grant, she received $50,000, which was equivalent to 50% of his community property at the time.

She did not give many interviews after her retirement from films. Her only extensive recorded interview was with filmmakers Kevin Brownlow and David Gill for their documentary Unknown Chaplin (1983). Film historian Jeffrey Vance interviewed her extensively in her last years and quotes her in the book "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema" (2003) and in the audio commentary track to the Criterion Collection edition DVD/Blu-ray of City Lights (1931).

Close friend and former classmate of Sue Carol at Kemper Hall in Wisconsin.

Through her third marriage she became stepmother of the father of William Villiers and aunt of the mother of Bart Ruspoli.