Trivia

Was voted The Most Photogenic Actress of Warner Bros. Studios in 1945.

Her screen name was given to her by Jack L. Warner.

Was an author of children's books.

When she began her career at Warner Bros., she was initially going to be given the name of Georgia King. Upon hearing this, she broke down in tears, saying that a name like that was more reminiscent of "a burlesque queen on the Mississippi" and pleaded with director Delmer Daves to speak with studio boss Jack L. Warner and see if anything could be done to correct that ASAP. She was working on her first big Warner Bros. feature at the time, The Very Thought of You (1944), and had become a friend of Daves. The day after King and Daves addressed the potential screen name upset, he approached her on the set and informed her, "I've done it. It is now Andrea King". In reply, King smiled and simply said, "That I like".

She never cooked a meal nor purchased any kinds of groceries in her entire life, she would dine out all three meals a day.

Following her death, she was buried at Zion Episcopal Churchyard in Charles Town, West Virginia.

During her late teens and mid-20s, she worked in the Lillian Gish Stock Company and was appearing in a production of "Life with Father" when the Pearl Harbor attacks of December 7, 1941, occurred. She later came to Hollywood, California, in 1943, shortly after her 24th birthday and after an unsuccessful screen test and reading at Paramount Pictures, she soon found great success, and flourished, as a notable leading lady of Warner Bros. Studios.

Her mother Belle Hart was a stage actress who drove ambulances for the American Red Cross during World War I.

On June 21, 2018, she was honored with a sketch of the day caricature through the website DeviantArt on an artist profile fittingly known as ClassicActresses. On September 23, 2018, she was honored with a pencil caricature on the website Star Portraits.

After Andrea was released from her contract at Warner Bros., she was in high demand. She had to turn down the role of Dr. Lilith Ritter in Nightmare Alley (1947) (20th Century Fox, 1947) in order to accept the role of Marjorie in Ride the Pink Horse (1947) (Universal, 1947). Both movies were filming at the same time, forcing her to choose one over the other.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1547 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. She was one of the first stars to receive one of the first stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Was a staunch Democrat and strongly supported the unsuccessful campaign run of Bill Bradley.

Grew up at 82-31 Beverly Road in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.

In her later years, she loved to wear turbans.

Her green eyes were seldom evident onscreen: during what could be termed her vintage years King appeared in only five technicolor films: My Wild Irish Rose (1947), Buccaneer's Girl (1950), Mark of the Renegade (1951), The World in His Arms (1952), and Band of Angels (1957).

At the time of her 2003 death (at age 84) she was a resident of the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California.

Her husband Nathaniel Hite Willis was a direct descendant of George Washington.

She and her Band of Angels (1957) co-star Clark Gable both shared the same birthday, February 1.