Trivia

According to Laura Wagner, in her article about Randy in Films of the Golden Age, Winter 2013/2014 issue, she was born Elizabeth Shaubell but began going by the nickname of "Randy" while a teenager.

Auditioned for a prime role in the film Lady in the Dark (1944) but didn't get it. Her test, however, was eventually seen by Fox, who signed her to a contract a couple years later (1947).

Joined up with her vaudeville parents, who called their act "The Shaubells," at age 3.

Three of her four marriages were to nonprofessionals. Her first husband, Kenneth Smith, was an airplane mechanic. Her second husband, Edward Charles George, by whom she had a daughter, was a car salesman who later became a police officer. Her third husband, Lane Allan, was an actor. Her fourth husband was Ernest Deneen Wallis.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: All About Eve (1950) & The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).