Her father was a Czech Jewish immigrant, born in Teplice. Her mother was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Retired to raise her family.
Her mother Lupita Tovar died on November 12, 2016, the day after Kohner's 80th birthday.
She and her mother Lupita Tovar both starred in films that the Library of Congress selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2015: Tovar in Drácula (1931) and Kohner in Imitation of Life (1959).
Husband John Weitz (born Hans Werner Weitz in Berlin on 25th May 1923)
was a fashion designer, novelist, biographer, yachtsman and racing
driver. He died on 3rd October 2002.