- Her son, Michael, spent a year in jail for trying to poison his father. He committed suicide by overdose in a motel at the age of 24. She found his body.
- When she was 12 years old in Germany she went to a movie theater and saw Camille (1936) and, she said, "swooned" when she saw Robert Taylor. Eighteen years later she married him.
- While handsome Robert Taylor was squiring her about town, the press quipped that he was *finally* dating someone prettier than he was (Taylor was previously married to Barbara Stanwyck).
- She was widowed twice. Her second husband, Robert Taylor, and her third husband both died of lung cancer.
- Clark Gable taught her how to shoot.
- Did volunteer work at Children's Hospital associated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
- Underwent surgery for a benign brain tumor in 1979, and recovered.
- In 1955 she was one of only three people under long-term contract at RKO.
- After being offered a movie contract with RKO Pictures, she relocated to the US in 1951, the same year she was featured on the June 4 cover of "Life" Magazine.
- Daughter, Manuela Thiess, played a few parts on TV and later became an English teacher.
- Her husband died less than two weeks after 5/26/1969 when she found her son Michael's dead body. Who died from a drug overdose.
- Received the Golden Key Award from the Foreign Press Association in 1952.
- Was up to co-star with Clark Gable in The King and Four Queens (1956) at Gable's request, but turned it down to focus on her family.
- Voted the year's "Most Promising Star" by "Modern Screen Magazine" in 1952 along with Marilyn Monroe.
- Buried at Friedhof Dresden-Bühlau,mDresden, Stadtkreis Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
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