- She and her husband are buried alongside Joe E. Brown in his grave site at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- She played Fanny in the original London stage version of Noël Coward's play "Cavalcade", but was signed by Fox for a different role in the film adaptation. She sailed to New York on the Queen Mary and was taken to the Waldorf Towers. It was a stormy night, and when no one from the studio showed up to meet her, she sailed back to Britain the next day.
- When the Jewish Barnes converted to Catholicism, Loretta Young acted as her sponsor/godmother.
- She sued Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures because he supposedly ordered her to be photographed in her garters behind a screen, but it was just a publicity stunt cooked up by Barnes and Cohn.
- She played poker with Clark Gable at the studio and at the actor's home.
- Before her screen debut in 1929, she worked as a nurse, chorus girl, dance hostess and vaudeville comedienne. According with the IMDB, her debut was in 1923 at the age of 20 in a movie called PHONOFILM and her next movie was only in 1931.
- Shares a large monument and grave site with Joe E. Brown at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- In a 1973 interview on the Johnny Carson Show, she claimed to be 59 years old. However, according to her biographical details, we know she was actually 70 years old at the time of the interview.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1501 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Had appeared with John Carradine in five films: Gateway (1938), The Three Musketeers (1939), Frontier Marshal (1939), Barbary Coast Gent (1944) and It's in the Bag! (1945).
- Had appeared with Merle Oberon in four films: The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), The Divorce of Lady X (1938) and 'Til We Meet Again (1940).
- Had appeared with Rosalind Russell in four films: Rendezvous (1935), This Thing Called Love (1940), The Trouble with Angels (1966) and Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968).
- Had appeared with Cesar Romero in five films: Diamond Jim (1935), Rendezvous (1935), Always Goodbye (1938), Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) and Frontier Marshal (1939).
- Mother of Mike Frankovich Jr. (born 1942), Peter Frankovich (born 1946) and Michelle Frankovich De Motte (born 1944). Aunt of Rayford Barnes.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 29-30. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Roomed with Pat Paterson when both were struggling starlets in England.
- Made 26 comedy shorts with Stanley Lupino
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