- An ardent anti-Communist, in 1959 she picketed in protest when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited her country.
- Submitted her photograph to the Vienna office of MGM and ended up as one of 36 European hopefuls to try out Hollywood. Only two succeeded. Ms. Massey and Hedy Lamarr.
- During the tabloid feud between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Ms. Massey was tried out as Eddy's co-star in a couple of musical films. The public was not receptive to it. Most people thought Jeanette and Nelson were married in real life and viewed this new pairing as tantamount to adultery.
- Since she was married to military man of high rank she is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- In 1954 a special subcommittee of the House of Representatives held hearings in Manhattan on communist aggression in Eastern Europe and Ms. Massey became their star witness, testifying to the rape, murder and robbery committed by Soviet agents against her Hungarian native land.
- Appeared, with Milton Berle and Arthur Treacher, in an edition of the "Ziegfeld Follies", on Broadway, that ran for more than 500 performances.
- Built up her early reputation singing in musical halls and operettas in Hungary, Austria and Germany.
- Former opera singer.
- Husband #3 was Charles Walker, one-time owner of a fashionable Manhattan jewelry shop.
- Her widower, Donald Dawson, was a lawyer who was, at one time, an administrative assistant to President Harry S. Truman. He was questioned, in 1951, by Senator J. William Fulbright's subcommittee about his connections with Washington influence peddlers and RFC loans.
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