- When Cortese lost the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Day for Night (1973) to veteran Ingrid Bergman (for Murder on the Orient Express (1974)), Bergman recognized Cortese in her speech, impromptu, noting Cortese should have won.
- Despite a prolific screen career (and an Oscar nomination for Day for Night (1973)), her name was omitted from the "In Memoriam" segment at The Oscars (2020).
- Mother, with Richard Basehart, of actor Jackie Basehart.
- On July 28th 2019, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) aired Thieves' Highway (1949) on their weekly Noir Alley segment, after which segment host Eddie Muller stated that Cortese, who starred in the movie, was still alive and living in Milan, Italy. In reality, she had passed away two and a half weeks earlier on July 10th.
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