- Her eldest son is film director and screenwriter R. Christian Anderson.
- Performed on numerous live radio commercials and was a radio interviewer at red carpet premiers in Hollywood during the 1950s at stations KMPC and KFI. She also read the news and made "on the scene" reports for several well-known radio personalities of the day on their radio shows, including Johnny Grant, Betty White, Bill Balance, and Gene Autry.
- For nearly 3 years (1951-53) she lived at the "Highland Towers" apartment building at 1922 Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA. One floor above her in the penthouse lived Criswell, the famous psychic. When they became acquainted, he introduced her to Ed Wood, who used her as an extra in one of his films.
- She enlisted for 2 years in the Women's Army Corps during the last months of World War II and was a member of the American Legion until her passing in 2023.
- Was an extra in the 1950 production "Key to the City" with Clark Gable and Loretta Young. She played a hostess in a Chinatown night club.
- On the radio during the 1950s she conducted numerous live celebrity interviews on the red carpet at movie premiers on Hollywood Boulevard. Among the theaters she worked were Graumann's Chinese, Egyptian, Pantages, Paramount (now El Capitan), and the Stanley Warner.
- She was fluent in both English and Spanish.
- As a radio personality, she rode in a convertible with TV star Tita Marsell in the 1959 "Santa Claus Lane Parade" (now known as the Hollywood Christmas Parade).
- Lita was featured in a campaign television ad for Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz in Palm Springs. The ad showed an interview with Lita and her riding down a sidewalk in a new motor scooter he provided for her. (September 2016)
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