- At the time of her Academy Award nomination in 1966 for A Patch of Blue (1965), Elizabeth Hartman was the youngest nominee ever in the category of Best Actress. She was 22 years old at the time.
- Worked at a museum in Pittsburgh after she quit acting in 1983.
- Like her characters in A Patch of Blue (1965) and The Secret of NIMH (1982), she was very shy and timid in real life.
- Won Ohio's "Actress of the Year" award for playing the fragile Laura in the play "The Glass Menagerie".
- Hartman's favorite poet was Emily Dickinson.
- Auditioned for the role of 'Pookie' Adams, in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969).
- Among the roles Hartman later auditioned for was that of Katharine Hepburn's daughter in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which would have reunited her with her Patch of Blue costar Sidney Poitier. But when Hepburn recommended her real life niece Katherine Houghton for the role, Hartman was knocked out of the running.
- She was of Welsh, Irish, and German descent.
- Was born the same day as Harry Shearer.
- Her brother-in-law, Robert H. Shoop Jr., is distantly related to actress Pamela Susan Shoop; they are eight cousins.
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