- Karger also worked as a vocal coach at Columbia Pictures in 1948, where a young student-starlet of his named Marilyn Monroe fell in love with him. But he spurned Marilyn because he didn't think she would make a proper stepmother for his young son from an earlier marriage.
- First wife Patti Sacks won a divorce from Karger after she testified in Superior Court that he knocked a Karl Marx book out of her hand, and told her he didn't want his wife to be more intelligent than him. Sacks was studying to be a lawyer at the time.
- He passed away on the 17th anniversary of the death of his onetime paramour Marilyn Monroe; both died on August 5th.
- Is portrayed by Taylor Nichols in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
- Son of Maxwell Karger.
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