- She suggested a dancer in her nightclub act named Ronnie Walken change his first name to Christopher. He did. The rest is movie history.
- Was sentenced in September 1983 by a U.S. District Judge to 500 hours of community service and get psychiatric help for lying before a federal grand jury about having pocketed her dead mother's Social Security payments.
- Daughter of Belgian parents, George Bronz (or Bronze) and Louise van Vooren, she later adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional name.
- Became a naturalized United States citizen on January 4, 1951.
- Was one of the judges in the 1969 Miss Universe pageant.
- Was a champion skater and claimed to be fluent in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
- Came to New York in 1950 as an exchange student.
- She had her only child, a son with her second husband Curt Henry Pfenniger named Eric Purcell.
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