- Suffered from alcoholism for a number of years, but recovered and later became a leader in the Alcoholics Anonymous program, where she volunteered much of her time. She went on to teach drama at Yale University for several years.
- Was a Hollywood starlet in 1942 when she met future husband Yul Brynner. He had only been in America a few months and knew very little English at the time, waiting on tables, parking cars and singing gypsy songs in clubs to make ends meet.
- Her son, Yul "Roc" Brynner, wrote the biography on his father "Yul, The Man Who Would Be King", in which he chronicles his parents' stormy marriage.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 27, son Yul Brynner, on December 23, 1946. Child's father is her now late ex-husband, Yul Brynner.
- "Gilmore" is her stepfather's name.
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