- Close friend to Marie Dressler. When Dressler discovered she had cancer, Claire, who had nursing training, served as her caregiver. Unfounded and highly damaging rumors, however, began to circulate as to an intimate relationship between the two and that Claire also had a financial interest in maintaining it. A devastated Claire broke off the friendship despite Dressler's pleas. When Dressler died of her cancer shortly after, there was no mention of Du Brey in Dressler's will. Claire submitted a bill to the estate for $25,000 for "personal nursing and secretarial services" but received only $3,000 by the court.
- The late actor John Phillip Law became a trusted friend in her elderly years. He also served as conservator of her estate.
- Was hired as Ethel Barrymore's stand-in for the film Rasputin and the Empress (1932) which showcased all three Barrymores.
- Excelled in athletics, notably tennis and golf, and did many of her own stunts in films.
- One time mentor to actor Richard Cromwell.
- She was raised Catholic and attended a convent school.
- She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959.
- She was five feet seven inches high, weighed 130 pounds and had auburn hair and brown eyes, and took a lively interest in horticulture.
- Du Brey "had trained as a nurse". She related that in 1897 she traveled west from Idaho in a covered wagon with her mother and her grandfather.
- Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey.
- Du Brey's screen career began with Universal Studios and she played at one time or another with almost all the larger companies.
- Late in 1934, Anna Q. Nilsson joined Du Brey's operation, making contacts with producers and directors, while Du Brey handled the office part of the business.
- Du Brey was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, to an ethnic Croat father from Dalmatia (who anglicized his name to Matthew Dubrey before his marriage), and an Irish-American mother, Lilly (née Henry), later Mrs. Richard Fugitt.
- According to two biographies of Marie Dressler published in the late 1990s, Dressler and Du Brey had a long-term romantic relationship.
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