- Was pregnant three times (in real-life) during her stint on Guiding Light. Producers chose to hide her pregnancies, rather than write them in the storyline.
- In 2001 she and her family helped to establish The Christopher J. Rubes Center For EMS Studies, named after her physician son who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1996.
- Having studied ballet since the age of 8 in Prague, Douglas got an audition before George Balanchine, founder of the New York City Ballet. He told her, "You're too short. You'll never make it. But you're such a beautiful interpretive dancer, why don't you consider acting?" She liked acting, too, she recalled, "but I really, really wanted to be a ballet dancer!".
- Having arrived in New York with her mother in 1940, teenaged Zuzka Zenta taught herself English by going to the movies - three a day, she reported - and gave herself the name Susan Douglas. Susan is the English equivalent of the Czech Zuzka, and Douglas she picked out of a phone book.
- Founded the Young People's Theatre in Toronto in 1966
- She was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on June 25, 1975 for her services to Children's Theater in Canada.
- Mother of actor Anthony Dean Rubes.
- Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003).
- Collingwood, Ontario, Canada (June 2007)
- She was born in Vienna, Austria, to Czech Jewish parents, Charlotta (Placzek) and Alfred Burstein. Her father was born in Lipník nad Becvou. Her mother was born in Trieste, Italy, to parents from Kyjov. The family left Austria because of the Nazi regime.
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