- Considered as a "new Garbo" she was heavily promoted by the studio's publicity department. However, after making her debut in the 1928 silent The Masks of the Devil concerns grew at the studio about her weight and her inability to speak English which was a requirement due to the arrival of sound films. She returned to Europe without making another film in America.
- Eva von Berne worked as an executive to display windows in Vienna, and later she fled to Salzburg after the beginning of World War II where she lived with her family.
- In Germany she appeared in four productions and then announced her retirement from films in 1930 at the age of twenty.
- Eva von Berne was also successful as a sculptor and had several exhibitions in Austria.
- In 1930, a PR consultant of MGM made a mistake when he released the information that Eva von Berne died in 1930 at the age of only 20 years because of excessive diet. This was still accepted as fact in the 1980s, and it wasn't until the 2000s that the public became aware that she was still alive. In a 2006 interview with Toni Schieck, von Berne said, "...It was fortunate that the world thought that I died. So I did not have to deal with autograph hunters".
- She was working as a dance instructor and model when she was discovered in Vienna by the Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg who was there on his honeymoon with Norma Shearer.
- She was only 18 years old when she arrived in the USA and completely unprepared for the American film business. First she was judged as too plump. She also had problem to handle the star hype of her person - probably one reason she decided few years later to retire from the film business. The shooting of her first movie became delayed because of these circumstances and she had to undergo a radical diet.
- Autographs of Eva von Berne might be rare. She confirmed this in an interview she had with Tony Schieck in 2006: "I think it was fortunate that the world thought that I died. So I had not to deal with autograph hunters".
- She married Helmut Krauss, a former major in the Austrian army.
- Her parents were Karl Emil Angelo Plentzner von Scharneck (born 1878), originally from Komárom, and Franziska von Plentzner von Scharneck (née Silber, born 1886), who was born in Salzburg. After the outbreak of World War I the Pentzner von Scharneck family fled to Vienna.
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