- Suffering from severe arthritis and impending blindness, Blandick fixed her hair, dressed up in her best outfit, placed her favorite photos and memorabilia around her room and took her own life by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets and putting a plastic bag over her head for good measure. Her suicide note read: "I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.".
- Played different roles in different screen versions of "Huckleberry Finn". In the 1931 version, she played Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly, a carryover from the 1930 film of "Tom Sawyer", in which she played the same role. In 1939 she played the role of Miss Watson in the Mickey Rooney film "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
- Best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy's Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- Had no children.
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum.
- Made her Broadway debut in 1901, in the original run of 'If I Were King', by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
- Appeared in three Broadway shows with May Irwin between 1913 and 1915. Orlando Daly and Lynn Pratt appeared in at least two of these productions.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Wizard of Oz (1939) & Road to Morocco (1942).
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