- Twice portrayed Joan Crawford's maid; in Torch Song and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
- She is interred at Meadowbrook Memory Gardens in her birthplace of Villa Rica, Georgia.
- Inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1977.
- Once awarded Los Angeles Woman of the Year for her community services; also received the N.A.A.C.P. Award for Contribution to Education.
- A professor of theatre arts where she taught black theatre studies at UCLA
- Had one son.
- Mother of McHenry Norman.
- She was a lifelong conservative Republican who supported the presidencies of men like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. She was also an outspoken anti-communist and supported the H.U.A.C. hearings of the late 1940s.
- In 1963 and 1964, Norman joined fellow actresses Joan Caulfield, Ruth Hussey, Yvonne De Carlo, Marie Windsor, Laraine Day, and Virginia Mayo, in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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