- Roman and her son, Richard Roman "Dickie" Hall (born November 12, 1952), along with actress and writer Betsy Drake, were among the first-class passengers aboard the Andrea Doria when the ship collided with the Stockholm and sank in 1956. They were among the almost 1,700 souls saved in the sinking. Roman and her son were separated during the rescue. She arrived in New York first and waited for him, surrounded by news photographers and reporters. She was on the pier to greet him when the rescue ship arrived in New York the next day.
- Ruth was a passenger on board the Italian luxury liner S.S. Andrea Doria when it collided with the Swedish liner M.S. Stockholm on July 25, 1956. She, along with 1659 other survivors, were rescued before the Andrea Doria sank the next day.
- During the late 1940s, Roman lived with Linda Christian and five other aspiring actresses in a residence they called "The House of Seven Garbos".
- Jack L. Warner wanted to cast her in the role of Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) because she was a Warner Bros. contract player, a good actress, and a good draw at the box office.
- A glamorous publicity photo of Ruth Roman adorns the wall of the publicist's office in A Star Is Born (1954). Ruth was a contract player and one of Warner Brothers' top movie stars in the early 1950s.
- In a 1951 article for Motion Picture, she said that her birth name was "Norma" Roman and that, when a fortuneteller told Mrs. Roman that the name would bring her daughter bad luck, she was renamed "Ruth" Roman.
- She and Yvonne De Carlo auditioned for the title role in Universal's Jungle Queen (1945). Ruth won the role, but she was later disappointed by the fact that De Carlo was chosen for the title role in a more prestigious Universal release: Salome, Where She Danced (1945).
- Was considered for the role of Sephora, Moses' wife, in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).
- Her first husband, Jack Flaxman, worked at an art gallery. They were married on May 15, 1939, in Nashua, New Hampshire. According to a 1951 Photoplay article, Ruth's first marriage "lasted but a few months and both of them realized what a mistake it had been. Ruth seldom speaks of it and prefers to forget the unhappiness it brought".
- Appeared with Gary Cooper in four movies: Good Sam (1948), Dallas (1950), Starlift (1951), and Blowing Wild (1953).
- Appeared on the cover of the May 1, 1950 issue of Life. The magazine also included an article about her, "The Rapid Rise of Ruth Roman".
- Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
- Auditioned for the part of Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949). She and Hedda Hopper's son William Hopper made a screen test.
- Her earliest credited role is Ann Martin, the romantic interest of Eddie Dean's character, in the Ken Maynard vehicle Harmony Trail (1944). In the film, Roman swoons over Dean and dances to his singing.
- According to the 1910 census, Ruth's paternal grandfather, Charles Roman, immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in 1905. He brought his wife, Martha, and his son, Anthony "Tony" (Ruth's father), to the States two years later. They settled in Boston, where Charles worked as a woodworker for a local factory.
- Was honored by a day of her films being shown during TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" event on 4 August 2022.
- She was almost cast in Cornered (1945), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), The Big Clock (1948), The Paleface (1948), and Whispering Smith (1948).
- Starred in Desert Desperados (1959), a biblical epic that was made in Italy in 1955 and was released by RKO in the United States in 1959.
- In the late 1940s, she had a pet dog named Sean. He was half Kerry Blue and half Hungarian Puli.
- Her mother was affectionately nicknamed "Suki" (also spelled "Sooky").
- The youngest of three children. Her sisters were Ann and Eva.
- She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
- Her mother, Mary Pauline Gold (born c. 1898), immigrated to the United States from Vilnius, Lithuania in 1909. She was the daughter of Jake Gold and Esther Bycofsky (or Bucofsky). Mary married Abraham "Anthony" Roman on October 2, 1916 in Boston.
- In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by either Rosetta Calavetta or Lydia Simoneschi. Andreina Pagnani and Dhia Cristiani, most notably in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), also lent their voice to Roman.
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