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person_profile-Maidie Norman

Maidie Norman Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Maidie Norman

Date of Birth:

Oct 16, 1912

Country of birth:

Died:

May 02, 1998

Biography of

Maidie Norman

    Maidie Norman was born Maidie Ruth Gamble on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis and Lila Gamble. She received a B.A. from Bennett College in 1934 and a master's degree from Columbia University three years later. She also attended the Actors Lab in Hollywood from 1946 to 1949.

    Norman first appeared on film in The Peanut Man in 1947. Throughout the fifties-not a good time for film roles for black women-she appeared in a number of films, such as Bright Road with Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier and Torch Song, both in 1953; About Mrs. Leslie and Susan Slept Here in 1954; and 1956's Written on the Wind. These were often servant roles, with a special fifties blandness. Still, Norman was skillful and professional in her execution of them. In 1962, she got a chance to chew up the scenery with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    In 1968-69, Norman was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University and, throughout the seventies, she was lecturer, director, and acting teacher at UCLA. At the same time, Norman was highly visible on television, appearing in Mannix, Adam 12, Streets of San Francisco, Kung Fu, The Jeffersons, and others. She was also part of the cast of Roots: The Next Generation in 1979.

    Norman was a founding member of the American Negro Theater West; in 1977, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame; and an award in her name is presented each year for outstanding research by an undergraduate in Black Theater at UCLA. She died on May 6, 1998.

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Filmography of

Maidie Norman

Found 31 Movies in total

Delphine and Carole

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

... 1988

... 1983

... 1982

... 1981

Thornwell

Ruth Thornwell ( Actor )

... 1981

Movie Movie

Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933") ( Actor )

... 1978

Airport '77

Dorothy ( Actor )

... 1977

A Star Is Born

Justice of the Peace (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1976

Sty of the Blind Pig

Weedy Warren ( Actor )

... 1974

A Dream for Christmas

Jennie Daley ( Actor )

... 1973

The Lie

Janine ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Nurse Ferguson ( Actor )

... 1972

Sixteen

Aunt Ada ( Actor )

... 1972

4 for Texas

Burden's Maid ( Actor )

... 1963

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Elvira Stitt ( Actor )

... 1962

The Opposite Sex

Violet (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

Written on the Wind

Bertha ( Actor )

... 1956

Man with the Gun

Sarah - Nelly's Maid ( Actor )

... 1955

Mad at the World

Miss Lovett ( Actor )

... 1955

... 1955

About Mrs. Leslie

Camilla ( Actor )

... 1954

Susan Slept Here

Georgette ( Actor )

... 1954

Executive Suite

Housekeeper ( Actor )

... 1954

Forever Female

Emma ( Actor )

... 1953

Torch Song

Anne ( Actor )

... 1953

Bright Road

Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother ( Actor )

... 1953

The Well

Martha Crawford ( Actor )

... 1951

Manhandled

Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1949

The Peanut Man

Lucretia ( Actor )

... 1947