- In his book about his lifelong love affair with Marilyn Monroe, "Norma Jean [My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe,"] he claims she had an abortion when she discovered she was pregnant with his child in the 1940s.
- When Gunsmoke (1955) went to color in 1966, a new opening was filmed. Jordan was the bad guy in black" at the end of the street whom Marshal Matt Dillon shot every week.
- Born and raised in Circleville, OH, the home town of his uncle, bandleader Ted Lewis (Theodore Freidman).
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