- While Dagover's films of the period were decidedly apolitical, she was known to be one of Adolf Hitler's favorite film actresses and Dagover is known to have been a dinner guest of Hitler on several occasions.
- After her return to Germany and the rise of the Third Reich in 1933, she avoided overt political involvement and generally appeared in popular costume musicals and comedies during World War II. However, in 1937, she received the State Actress award, and in 1944 she was awarded the War Merits Cross for entertaining Wehrmacht troops on the Eastern Front in 1943 and 1944 on the German occupied Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
- Throughout her career, Dagover misrepresented her age, claiming to be ten years younger than she actually was. It was not until after her death that a childhood friend confirmed her true age.
- In 1897, when she was ten, her parents sent her back to Europe to continue her education in boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives.
- Dagover died at the age of 92, on January 24, 1980, in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Grünwald cemetery, in Munich.
- In 1926 she married film producer Georg Witt, who would produce many of Dagover's future films. The couple would remain married until Witt's death in 1972.
- Gave birth to her only child, a daughter Eva Maria Daghofer, in 1919. Child's father is her first husband, Fritz Daghofer.
- In 1979, she published her autobiography, Ich war die Dame (English: I Was The Lady).
- In 1925 she made her stage debut under the direction of Max Reinhardt. In the following years she played in Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin and also at the Salzburg Festival.
- After some appearances on TV she was once more engaged for the screen in the 70's where she especially got grateful roles under the direction of Maximilian Schell.
- In 1962, Lil Dagover was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis. In 1964, she was awarded the Bambi annual television and media award from Hubert Burda Media, and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1967.
- In 1961 she achieved a great succès d'estime with her role as a eccentric old woman in the Edgar-Wallace adaption "Die seltsame Gräfin" - a role type which she also impersonated more and more at the stages too.
- Ex-mother-in-law of Géza von Radványi.
- Mother, with 'Fritz Daghofer',of daughter Eva Daghofer.
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