- Was only five years older than Dana Andrews, who played her son in The Best Years of Our Lives.
- Daughter of Sir Arthur Evans Clare (c .1865-1939). Her father won his knighthood for service in India with the British army. He died in Hollywood several months after being injured in an automobile accident.
- Her throaty, heart-tugging voice was described as a mixture of "gin and tears.".
- Her mother, Lady Clare (Alice), passed away in Hollywood at the age of 71.
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
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