- While touring withe USO in Alaska in the mid-'40s, she accidentally ate some contaminated fish and contracted a rare disease that left her crippled.
- Nearly 40 years after Reefer Madness (1936) (aka "Reefer Madness") was made, it was found again in 1972 by Keith Stroup, founder of The National Organziation for Reform of Marijuana Laws, who discovered it in the Library of Congress archives and paid $297 for a print. He screened it in New York as a benefit for the advocacy group, and the rest is cult history.
- After her acting career was over, she became a Hollywood agent for such stars as Robert Blake, James Coburn, Ann Jillian, Robert Fuller and Dolores Hart. Ms. Hart later left acting to become a cloistered nun.
- Claiming she was completely naive about marijuana when she shot the film, noted critic Leonard Maltin calls Thelma's 1936 movie, Reefer Madness (1936) (aka "Reefer Madness"), the "granddaddy of all 'worst' movies".
- Was saluted on This Is Your Life (1955) in May of 1957.
- Produced the feature Tom Jones Rides Again (1969), in which she also co-starred.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of Gertrude Hoffman.
- Ex-sister-in-law of Clarence Stroud.
- In 1934 it was announced in trade papers that Thelma White had been signed for the lead role in a forthcoming production to be entitled "Blonde Poison". The film was never made, but the title was still listed amongst her credits in several of her obituaries.
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