- She was born Bernice Frankel, in her youth she married Robert Alan Arthur. She later married Gene Saks.
- Bea did not like to watch her own performances in film or television.
- Before she was a successful actress and a comedienne, she was a truck driver and a typist in the Marine Corps.
- According to a television interview, Arthur claimed that her start in comedy came when she was only a lounge singer. Apparently, when she got up on stage to sing torch songs, the audience would laugh at her because of her deep voice and her height. The nightclub manager then approached her and told her she was in the wrong business. She should be doing comedy instead.
- Was best friends with Angela Lansbury and Adrienne Barbeau
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