- Playing cooks for most her career, in real life Louise detested cooking.
- In 1976 she, along with Josephine Baker and Canada Lee were posthumously inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
- Despite the fact that she was given fourth billing in Imitation of Life (1934), her role was nearly equal in importance to Claudette Colbert's, and was the first instance of a Hollywood film in which a black woman's maternal problems were given equal importance to those of the leading white character in a film.
- A member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of four African-American sororities at the time.
- Louise was only a year older than actress Fredi Washington, who played her daughter in Imitation of Life (1934).
- Her husband, Leroy Moore, was a professional chef.
- Louise died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California on October 26, 1962, exactly a decade to the day as her famed counterpart Hattie McDaniel.
- Appeared as a contestant on a 1961 episode of the Groucho Marx TV series "You Bet Your Life".
- Before becoming an actress, Beavers was the maid for actress Leatrice Joy.
- Was a registered Republican.
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
- African-American screen, television, and minstrel actress.
- Beavers' most widely seen role was playing the title character in the 1950s sitcom Beulah, which she "inherited" when Ethel Waters left the series after two seasons. Once again playing a "salt of the Earth," world-wise housemaid, Beavers appeared in the final 33 episodes of the show.
- Parents are: Ernestine Monroe, and William M. Beavers.
- Cousin of George Beavers, Jr.
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