[10] Norden's silent film credits included roles in Baby Hands (1912), For the Mikado (1912),[5] Freddy the Fixer (1916),[11] The Destroyers (1916, also known as Peter God),[12] The Ancient Blood (1916),[13] The Dupe (1916),[14] The Deluded Wife (1916), The Combat (1916), The Dawn of a New Day (1916), Virtuous Wives (1918), and The Mind the Paint Girl (1919).

[15] Norden formed and led a garden club in Brightwaters, Long Island in 1917, to encourage women to grow vegetables and market their produce locally.

[16] The "Patriotic Gardeners", as they were known, also gave benefit shows[17] and raised funds for sending comfort kits, candy, cigarettes, and other supplies to Long Island men serving in World War I.

[18][19] In 1913, Norden gave an interview on the subject of beauty, predicting that "Soon a rational era will come," when women "will revert to simple clothes, stop daubing their faces with cosmetics ... and use the time thus saved to cultivate heart and mind qualities.

[20] After she left acting, she began a dress and millinery business with her cousin Martha Schorbach and her sister Olivia Dalton[21] in New York,[22][23][24] and was described as a "modiste" in 1928.