- Heather witnessed the horrific stabbing murder of her second husband, Broadway, film and TV director Robert B. Sinclair, by a prowler at their Montecito, California home on January 3, 1970. The prowler turned out to be a University of California--Santa Barbara (UCSB) graduate student.
- Tested for the part of Melanie in Gone with the Wind (1939), which was given to Olivia de Havilland.
- Was the subject of Sonic Youth's 1998 song "Heather Angel" off their "A Thousand Leaves" record
- Appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: The Informer (1935), Kitty Foyle (1940) and Suspicion (1941).
- Although she played Irene Browne's daughter in Berkeley Square (1933), she was only twelve years her junior in real life.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of Mary Forbes.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Brenda Forbes.
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