Kathleen Freeman has appeared in nine films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Naked City (1948), A Place in the Sun (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Nutty Professor (1963), Point Blank (1967), The Sting (1973), The Blues Brothers (1980), & Shrek (2001).