- Following her film career, which faded with the end of the Hollywood studio system, she returned successfully to the musical stage.
- Made a rare appearance in March of 2004 at a 3-D screening of The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953).
- In her salad days, she joined the chorus of the San Francisco Grand Opera Company (the youngest to ever be placed on contract) and later sang with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company. It was during a performance with the latter that she was spotted for films by 20th Century-Fox. The studio subsequently passed on her but she eventually signed with Warner Bros.
- In the book "Cars of the Fabulous '50s" in the 1953 Packard section, on page 169, there appears an ad for a contest to "Give Joan Weldon, young Hollywood starlet a new name." The winner was given a choice of a new 1953 Packard Caribbean convertible and a trip to Hollywood, or $7500 cash".
- Worked for a telephone company at age 16 while also taking singing lessons.
- Inducted into the Galileo Hall of Merit in 2019.
- 1953 Deb Star.
- Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "I Was a Monster Movie Maker" (McFarland & Co., 2001).
- Educated at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and U.Cal., Berkeley.
- She was a longtime member of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York and spent much of her spare time in retirement volunteering for the church.
- Jack L. Warner's son-in-law, producer William T. Orr, was responsible for changing her name from Welton to Weldon.
- Her father was a lawyer at the Jeweler's Board of Trade in San Francisco.
- She was a lifelong Democrat.
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