- Of Cathy's 17 films (all in starring or featured roles), 7 are film-noir or quasi-film-noir, making her a major contributor to the genre.
- In 1947, she accepted the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role on behalf of Fredric March, who was not present at the awards ceremony.
- Samuel Goldwyn, who was feuding with director William Wyler after Wyler left the fold, insisted that Cathy divorce her husband Robert Wyler, William's brother. When she refused, she was let go by Goldwyn.
- Appeared in two Academy Award Best Picture winners: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Ben-Hur (1959).
- Her chief leisure pursuit was writing poetry.
- Most sources give her birth year as 1925, but some give 1923.
- Her parents separated when she was a child.
- Aunt of Catherine Wyler and Judy Wyler.
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