- Once engaged to Cary Grant and once to Dick Powell.
- Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
- When she was cast as Wendy in 1924's Peter Pan (1924), Paramount cut two years off her age because 18 sounded too old for the part.
- Painting portraits was a hobby she picked up later in life.
- Wampas Baby Star of 1926.
- As an elderly woman, she lived in a suburban neighborhood in Studio City, CA, where she was a neighbor to a pre-adolescent Paul Thomas Anderson (whose mother was an actress, his father a producer).
- As the popularity of the Max Fleischer Studios cartoon character Betty Boop was catching on in the early 1930s, the studio placed an ad in movie industry Trade Papers in October 1931, stating that Betty Boop combines the simplicity of Mary Brian, the subtlety of Norma Shearer, the fire of (Greta) Garbo, the sweetness of Joan Bennett, the allure of (Marlene) Dietrich.
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