- Fooprints of the stars started accidentally when, in 1927, she stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
- Talmadge was the inspiration for the film characters Lina Lemont and Norma Desmond during the advent of sound films. She was one of many whose career was destroyed by the microphone.
- According to historian Charles Lockwood, Talmadge kept her prized jewelry in brown paper bags in the kitchen ice box, next to the vegetables. She later switched to storing them in slippers, hiding rubies in red shoes, sapphires in blue shoes, emeralds in green shoes, and so on.
- Graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, NY. Mae West was in the same graduating class (1911) as Talmadge.
- Talmadge attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, alma mater of many stars including Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Cowl, Mae West, Barbara Streisand, and Susan Hayward, among others.
- Like her sisters, her grave marker gives a false date of birth (1897).
- In her first five years at Vitagraph, Talmadge appeared in over 250 films.
- Even after they divorced, Joseph M. Schenck continued to act as her financial advisor and guide her business affairs.
- In 1927, Norma and her sisters opened the Talmadge Park real estate development in San Diego, California, USA. Now known as the Talmadge district, the development contains streets named for each of the sisters. It is located about one mile southwest of the San Diego State University campus.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Buster Keaton.
- Older sister of Natalie Talmadge & Constance Talmadge.
- At age 13, Norma was given a letter of introduction to Harry Mayo, casting director at the Vitagraph Studio in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where she then lived. After three weeks with no word she returned to the studio, where she was noticed by Beta Brueill, the studio's scenario head, who admired her beauty and had her placed in her first film, "The Household Pest.".
- Made a film called "Herself," about an actress touched by the Armenian genocide. After the film was completed, she donated $1000 to Near East Relief.
- Another street, Norma Place in West Hollywood, California, is also named for her. The street was originally an easement road that led to the entrance of a tiny studio Norma's husband, Joseph M. Schenck, built for her when she joined his company, First National, in 1919. The studio was used solely to produce movies made by Norma's and Constance's production companies. It was abandoned in 1926 when the production company owned by Norma and her sister Constance Talmadge moved to First National's new home, the Burbank Studios (now home to Warner Brothers). The studio, too small to be properly converted to sound production, was torn down in the 1930s. Norma Place was lengthened, making it a through street, and houses were built where the old studio once stood. Dorothy Parker and her husband, Alan Campbell, lived on Norma Place for most of the years they worked in Hollywood.
- Another Los Angeles monument named for her is The Talmadge, a ten-story luxury apartment building located on the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Berendo Street in Koreatown. Built in 1923, the rose-brick building was designed by the architectural firm of Curlett and Beelman. Among the ornamental features they included in the design are large plaster cameos inlaid on the third-story corners that face the two streets. The cameos show three women - two seated and one standing between them - that represent the three Talmadge sisters. The building is one of the stops on the city's Angels Walk self-guided tour.
- According to the "In the World of the Movies" column in the New York Times of 31 May 1914, her movie characters had (as of that date) been married 200 times, divorced 187 times, deserted by their husbands 156 times, and had had 192 children. The blurb ended, "As it is, she is the most married, most divorced woman in the world". This was near the end of her third full year as a movie actress.
- Daughter of Margaret Talmadge, the prototypical Hollywood stage mother.
- Talmadge Street in Hollywood, California, USA is named for Norma and her sister Constance Talmadge. It ran along the west side of Vitagraph's west coast studio where the Talmadges made some of their movies in the 1910s. The studio is now the ABC Television Center, west coast home of the American Broadcasting Company and its Los Angeles station, KABC-TV.
- Her image appears on the cover of the 2011 album, "Top Hits of the 1930s" Vol. 1.
- Aunt of Buster Keaton Jr. and Bob Talmadge.
- Talmadge was plagued by severe arthritis in her later years.
- During 1914 Talmadge was co-starred with the young Antonio Moreno, and they soon became one of the screen's most popular screen teams.
- Although Talmadge was born in Jersey City, both she and her mother thought it wold sound more glamorous if it was claimed she was born in Niagra Falls.
- Her image appears on the cover of the 2009 album, "Electro Swing".
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