Interestingly enough, Ilona is buried in Arlington National Cemetary next to her husband.
Ilona's final appearance on-screen was in the 1960 film Jet Over the Atlantic.
Ilona has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1625 Vine Street.
Ilona married and divorced third husband Charles Walker sometime in the late 1940's.
Ilona's first husband was Nick Szavazd. They were married from 1935 to 1936.
Ilona starred in the radio series Top Secret in the 1940's.
Ilona returned to her European stage roots when she co-starred with Milton Berle in a 1943-44 Broadway revival of The Ziegfield Follies.
Ilona originally went to work as an apprentice to a dressmaker. She used her earnings from that job to finance singing lessons.
Ilsa hailed from an impoverished background in Budapest. She once claimed in an interview that her family never had any meat to eat until she was seven years old.
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