Trivia

In 1939 she auditioned to play Hedy Lamarr's sister in the film Lady Of The Tropics but she did not get the part.

In 1935 her older brother Jack Quartaro sued actor Francis Lederer for plagiarism. Nina testified for him in court but he lost the case.

Although the press often claimed that Nina was Spanish she was actually 100% Italian. Her parents were both immigrants from Sicily.

On July 25, 1944 she married her third husband, twenty-nine year old William Spencer Hook.