- Despite the numerous times she worked with Lon Chaney Jr., the two reportedly had a strong disliking for each other. Often Chaney would scare Ankers and because of this, she referred to him as "a brute with bad breath".
- She was the only actress to appear in a Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein film. She played Gwen Conliffe in The Wolf Man (1941), in Son of Dracula (1943) she played Claire Caldwell and she appeared in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) as Elsa Frankenstein. Each of these roles was opposite Lon Chaney Jr. who played the monsters which terrorized Ankers.
- She remembered that many of the B movies she made were rush jobs. Arriving for a love scene on The Great Impersonation (1942), director John Rawlins called "Action!" before the actors were even given any blocking. When she and actor Ralph Bellamy remained frozen, she stuttered to the director, "I would like to meet my leading man, as I have never kissed a man before first being introduced to him.".
- She was called "Queen of the Screamers" on account of her bloodcurdling vocal outbursts in "B" suspense thrillers of the 1940s.
- She was engaged to actor Glenn Ford, but Ankers broke the engagement when she met Richard Denning while Ford was on location.
- Had appeared with Lon Chaney Jr. in five films: The Wolf Man (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Son of Dracula (1943), Weird Woman (1944) and The Frozen Ghost (1945).
- Following her death, she was interred at Maui Veterans Cemetery in Makawao, Hawaii.
- First name was pronounced "Ee-vul-lynn".
- Her last film was the drama film No Greater Love (1960). She came out of retirement to appear in this film with her husband Richard Denning.
- Wrote the introduction for the 1978 book The Golden Age of "B" Movies by Doug McClelland, published by Charter House.
- Died 12 days after her 67th birthday.
- After the series Hawaii Five-O (1968) ended, she stayed in Maui with her husband Richard Denning.
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