- A long-time social lioness in the film community, her many parties were attended by most of the top names in Hollywood over the years.
- Auditioned and screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), which went to Vivien Leigh.
- Anita is name-dropped in the Depression-era dance marathon movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), which is set in 1932. In one segment, Michael Sarrazin''s character Robert tells his partner Jane Fonda that he saw a movie starring Anita and Richard Cromwell wherein she goes blind and dies of a brain tumor. In truth, Anita and Cromwell did appear in two movies but they were post-1932 -- Most Precious Thing in Life (1934) and The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940). In neither of these two films, or in any other film Anita appeared in, did she ever go blind and die of a brain tumor. The film Dark Victory (1939), DOES have Bette Davis going blind and dying of a brain tumor with George Brent by her side, but it too was released much later than 1932.
- She appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and Anthony Adverse (1936).
- A lifelong registered Republican she was one of the many notable names who were in attendance at the Inauguration Ceremony of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Following her death, she was interred with her husband Buddy Adler at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- She appeared with Lew Ayres in two films - Heaven on Earth (1931), made at Universal and These Glamour Girls (1939) at MGM.
- On August 21, 2018, she was honored with a day of her film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars.
- WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931.
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