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, Tell Your Children (1936) (aka "Reefer Madness"), the "granddaddy of all 'worst' movies".
Ex-daughter-in-law of Gertrude Hoffman.
Ex-sister-in-law of Clarence Stroud.
In 1969 she produced the feature Tom Jones Rides Again (1969), in which she also co-starred.
Nearly 40 years after Tell Your Children (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.
Was saluted on "This Is Your Life" (1955) in May of 1957.
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.