- As an elementary school student Beverly had small parts with the Bainbridge Players. At the age of fourteen she quit high school to become a regular member of that group. She finished secondary schooling through the use of private tutors.
- A 1944 South Carolina newspaper characterizing Beverly's background said her cradle was a wardrobe trunk backstage, she carried a makeup box before a purse, and did her first acting as a toddler.
- The parents of Beverly Younger in 1947 resided in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. Her father was the manager of the McMinnville Chamber of Commerce. Beverly and her husband, Lester Podewell, moved west to establish and operate a children's theater. It was reported that they wanted to get away from the city when they bought a home on RR #8, on Glenn Creek drive, West Salem, Oregon, USA.
- Beverly Younger was twice nominated for the Sarah Siddons award as the best actress in Chicago.
- As the featured presenter in 1967 for a Rockford Woman's Club Beverly did a one woman show that depicted three kinds of women. There was a spinster, nearing panic as she searched for a man while being prodded by her married sister; a wife from a poor background married to and dominated by a rich and cultured husband; and a mother striving for status through her son's achievements.
- Beverly was quoted as saying that "My mother told me that I started reading Variety before The Little Red Goose.".
- In 1964 Beverly Younger completed a half hour television special for the Illinois State Commission on Alcoholism.
- As the waitress on Studs Place which aired from November 1949 to a few unsponsored programs in early 1951, Beverly and the cast of restaurant patrons, including Beverly's real life husband, Lester Podewell, had no laugh track and no script. They improvised on an outline and had no written dialogue.
- Beverly Younger's hobbies in 1942 were listed as roller skating, pet training, and tap dancing.
- Beverly's husband from the earliest days of their marriage in 1937 had for ten years served as director of Chicago's Jack and Jill Juvenile Theater.
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