- When asked by John Waters which celebrity she would most like to meet, Edith's immediate answer was Bob Barker.
- Edith’s version of "Big Girls Don't Cry" can be found on The Rhino Brothers Present The World's Worst Records (a various artists compilation from Rhino Records).
- Edith appears on the cover of John Cougar Mellencamp's 1980 album Nothin' Matters and What If It Did.
- According to Mink Stole, a particular scene in Female Trouble involving her and Edith was filmed a mammoth 29 times as Edith repeatedly had trouble with her lines!
- Edith bizarrely also had a singing career, doing a punk cover of ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ and a song entitled ‘Punks, Get Off The Grass’.
- Edith worried about memorizing her lines, so would write her dialogue out over and over again until she’d learned it by heart.
- She is the subject of a 1975 documentary short made by Robert Maier called Love Letter To Edie.
