- Though she'd always harbored a hankering to become an actress, she put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She taught exceptional-ed classes for two years before finally heading to New York to seek out acting jobs.
- In BEST DEFENSE (1984), when Kate Capshaw is waiting in a pick-up truck, she is humming the theme song from INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984), a movie (also released in 1984) that she appeared in.
- Sharon Stone was one of the top choices for the role of Willie Scott in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) before Kate Capshaw auditioned.
- To meet audience demands for a universal undesirable equivalent of snakes, Speilberg came up with the bugs, Indy does not fear them, but the character that does is Kate Capshaw, still in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
- When she auditioned for the part of Willie Scott, Capshaw thought she wouldn't get the part. Speilberg felt that her actions fit the fish out of water type that was to be Willie Scott. She is a natural brunette and had to dye her hair blonde for the part. Speilberg married Capshaw after falling in love with her while making the movie.
- She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority in college
- Waitress at COCO's restaurant in STL. in high school years
- Her father worked in control tower at Lambert Airport STL.
- Her dad owned 65 green Mustang
- Worked for two years as a teacher of learning disabled children before moving to New York City and studying acting, singing, and voice
- Former Ford model.
- Converted to Judaism when she married Spielberg
Quotes- "I'd be a little worried they wouldn't understand - it's not the two women kissing that would worry me, it would be the mummy naked part."
- "I'll be happy to take just those people who arrive at the theater intending to see Star Wars and can't get in. I stand just by default to do more business with a movie like this than I probably could at any other time."
- "It's a great idea to open a demographically different film against a highly profitable blockbuster."
- "I'd often thought how much I'd like to meet him [Steven Spielberg] because I admire him so much. But when I realized it was actually going to happen, I thought, 'What can I say to him that he hasn't heard before? Gee, I loved E.T.?' That would be ridiculous. So when we finally met I said nothing. When the meeting was over, he got up and said, 'Thanks for not saying anything about E.T.'" - Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1983
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