- In the film The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941), a film noted for dropping the names of famous persons of the day, Cornell's name is dropped more than that of any other celebrity.
- At the age of 58, she recreated the role of "Elizabeth Barrett" in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" episode of Producers' Showcase (1954) on live television in 1956, twenty-five years after she first played it in the original 1931 Broadway production.
- Born in Germany to U.S. parents, but raised in New York State.
- She appeared in only one Hollywood film (playing herself) - Stage Door Canteen (1943), but she is considered one of the great American stage actresses of the twentieth century.
- Won Broadway's 1948 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for a revival of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" - an award shared with Judith Anderson for "Medea" and Jessica Tandy for "A Streetcar Named Desire".
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