- She was prepared to try her hand at anything and by the time she was 20 could speak four languages, paint, sing, dance, play the violin and piano, fence, box and wrestle, cook, sew, knit, and milk a cow.
- In Hollywood at age 18, she spent five years under contract to Monogram Pictures. Her salary was reportedly $2,000 a week, all of it taken by her mother because it was against the law to pay minors.
- Also did underwater swimming and is credited as being the first to do underwater ballet.
- Belita later claimed to have been "forced" into entertainment at the age of two by her show business-oriented mother, who had herself once been a figure skater. Initially her mother wanted her to become a ballet dancer and only put her on the ice in order to improve her poise.
- At a 1938 skating performance in Covent Garden, Belita sustained a back injury. She and her mother, Queenie, went to America for both Belita's career possibilities and in the hope that an American back specialist could help her with her ongoing pain and occasional need for a wheelchair. She saw a Los Angeles back specialist, who provided little relief. Actor Peter Lorre recommended a veterinarian, who provided inversion therapy for animals with bad backs. Belita was hung upside down for therapy and claimed she was walking again in two weeks.
- She competed for Great Britain in the ice skating competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. She came in 16th place - the gold medallist was her later Hollywood rival Sonja Henie. .
- During the 1940s she was described as one of Hollywood's top box office stars and appeared in around 10 highly profitable low budget productions.
- Was taught mime by Marcel Marceau.
- Common misinformation about her second husband: He was Irish-born actor James Berwick (1929-2000), who sometimes went by his birth name, James Kenny. The couple married in 1967 and the marriage ended after his passing in 2000. Belita was never married to actor James Kenney (1930-1982), who, by sheer coincidence, was christened Kenneth Berwick.
- At the age of just 12, she was selected for the Olympic games skating contest at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. Belita won 16th place in the competition, which was won by none other than Sonja Henie. In 1937 Belita took fourth place in the British figure skating championships.
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