- Her first husband, Dr. Robert Franklyn, was a popular Hollywood plastic surgeon. She apparently divorced him when she refused to go under the knife.
- Had an I.Q. of 165.
- Played the girl upstairs, the neighbor of Tom Ewell, in the original Broadway production of "The Seven Year Itch", the part Marilyn Monroe later played with Ewell in the Billy Wilder film, The Seven Year Itch (1955).
- A lover of music, she often wrote her own songs and instrumentals for her own pleasure (none of which were ever recorded).
- Was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Played a minor role of a maid in the film, The Heiress (1949), starring Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland. Interestingly, she played the "de Havilland" part on radio, a few years later.
- Daughter Cathy Sandrich Gelfond (born in 1961) became a top casting director, and son David Sandrich (born in 1964) became a linguistic major and computer whiz.
- She was a regular on the radio show "Quiz Kids" for two years.
- Wrote the play "Europa and the Bull" and a non-fiction work entitled "The Manpower Policies of Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz." There was also a novel and an unfinished autobiography.
- Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes were scattered in the Garden of Roses located in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California.
- She was the daughter of Nah Brind, a language teacher, and Anna Brind, a psychologist. Her Jewish family moved from Vienna to Paris in 1937 to escape the Nazis.
- Lost her home in the Oct. 1, 1987 Whittier Narrows, (San Gabriel Valley area, Southern California, east of Los Angeles) earthquake.
- Directed "Meg," a prize-winning play, in Los Angeles in 1978.
- AP Wirephoto in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Sun., January 4, 1952: MISS CHEESECAKE OF 1952. Vanessa Brown, currently starring in a Broadway play in New York, has been selected by the editors of the European editor of the "Stars and Stripes.".
- She was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to the party's national convention in 1956.
- Competed for the role of Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953).
- Ex-sister-in-law of director/producer Jay Sandrich.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of director/producer Mark Sandrich.
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