- There is a myth that due to a broken ankle, Alice was not able to attend The 10th Annual Academy Awards in which she won Best Supporting Actress for In Old Chicago (1938). During the ceremony an unidentified man purportedly walked up to the podium and accepted the award on her behalf. When she called the Academy to say that she had not received her Oscar, the story goes that the man was had been an impostor who had crashed the party, accepted her award and walked off with it and neither the stolen Oscar nor the man who walked away with it were ever heard from again. This is untrue.
In fact, Henry King, the director of the film "In Old Chicago" accepted her award on her behalf. According to newspaper clippings discovered by librarians at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, he brought the Oscar to her later that night. It did leave her possession after that - but only to be engraved. No replacement was necessary, after all. - Alice Brady passed away of a virulent cancer five days before what would have been her 47th birthday.
- Her son Donald William Crane passed away in Los Angeles, California on January 17, 1942 at age 19.
- Although best remembered for her comic performances as socially ambitious mothers (My Man Godfrey (1936)), she often played serious roles, among them Lavinia Mannon in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra".
- Daughter of Broadway producer William A. Brady who was also involved in filmmaking and was head of the World Film Corporation (191?-1918). He was involved in an early fight against censorship in 1919 (not too ably) as president of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 29, a son Donald William Crane on March 10, 1922. Child's father was her ex-husband, James Crane.
- Was the 11th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for In Old Chicago (1938) at The 10th Academy Awards on March 10, 1938.
- Broadway star Alice Brady appeared in more than 50 silent films and didn't make her talkie debut until 1933.
- Became the first actress to be Oscar nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress as well as the first to be nominated in consecutive years, for My Man Godfrey (1936) and In Old Chicago (1938). She won the award for the latter.
- She was interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
- She was a liberal Democrat.
- She appeared in four Best Picture Oscar nominees: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) and In Old Chicago (1938).
- She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Her image appears on the cover of the 2012 music CD Electro Swing V.
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Nils Axel Nissen.
- Is one of 23 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Maureen Stapleton, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
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