[1] In her first film, the wartime propaganda film Hitler's Madman (1943), she played a young woman, Clara Janek, who leaps to her death from a hospital window rather than submit to Nazi sterilization.
[2] In 1952 she married the novelist and producer Sidney Sheldon, and the pair had a daughter Mary.
[3] Jorja and Sidney Sheldon were good friends of Groucho Marx, who thought highly of her ability as an actress.
[5] By the time of her death she had decorated over 200 homes for friends and celebrities across the United States.
[3] She died May 11, 1985, aged 61, from a heart attack, at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.