- Although married, during the 1950s Criswell maintained a private penthouse apartment (complete with roof garden) at the Highland Towers Apartments at 1922 Highland Avenue in Hollywood. He was listed in the city directory as "Mr. King" and used the apartment to entertain private friends. Close friend Liberace was an occasional guest at his private cocktail parties there. The building (designed for young, single film players during the 1920s) was also one-time home to Mary Martin and young son Larry Hagman, Thelma Todd, and Lyle Talbot.
- Johnny Carson spoofed Criswell and his predictions with his character "Carswell," complete with wig and sequined smoking jacket, on the Tonight Show of the Sixties and Seventies.
- In a 1955 issue of Spaceway Science Fiction, Criswell predicted that Mae West would be elected U.S. President in 1960 on a pro-space travel platform and fly to the moon with Criswell and friend George Liberace five years later. West also had a minor hit with the song, Criswell Predicts.
- Interred at Pierce Brothers' Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California in the Niches of Remembrance, F-10, Space 2.
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