Trivia

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.