- Bronson's son has said that Al Jolson was the only person she admitted she didn't like working with; they appeared together in The Singing Fool (1928).
- She named Peter Pan (1924) and A Kiss for Cinderella (1925) as her favorites of all her films. She also named Herbert Brenon as her favorite actor.
- Bronson had a son with Ludwig Lauerhass, born in 1935. The boy was Ludwig "Luddy" Lauerhass Jr., a lecturer in history emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a PhD from UCLA in 1972.
- Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).
- Brother was Frank Bronson.
- Bronson began her film career at the age of 16 with a bit part in Anna Ascends.
- At 17, she was interviewed by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan. Although the role had been sought by such established actresses as Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford, Barrie personally chose Bronson to play the lead in the film adaptation of his work, which was released in 1924. She appeared alongside actresses Mary Brian (Wendy Darling) and Esther Ralston (Mrs. Darling), both of whom remained lifelong friends.
- The UCLA Library Special Collections department houses the "Betty Bronson papers, 1920-1970", containing "materials related to Bronson's career and includes clippings, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and personal and professional ephemera.".
- In the 1960s, she appeared in episodic television and feature films. Her last role was an uncredited part in the television biopic Evel Knievel (1971).
- She attended East Orange High School until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her career in films." Subsequently, the entire family moved to California.
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