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.
Fotos
Películas (33)
Delphine y Carole
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988 · Edna
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
1983 · Neddy
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 · Nurse Agnes
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981 · Self
Thornwell
1981 · Ruth Thornwell
Movie Movie
1978 · Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Airport '77
1977 · Dorothy
A Star Is Born
1976 · Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Sty of the Blind Pig
1974 · Weedy Warren
A Dream for Christmas
1973 · Jennie Daley
Maurie
1973 · Mrs. Stokes
The Lie
1973 · Janine
Another Part of the Forest
1972 · Coralee
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972 · Nurse Ferguson
Sixteen
1972 · Aunt Ada
4 for Texas
1963 · Burden's Maid
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Elvira Stitt
No Greater Love
1960 · Queto's Mother
The Opposite Sex
1956 · Violet (uncredited)
Written on the Wind
1956 · Bertha
Man with the Gun
1955 · Sarah (uncredited)
Mad at the World
1955 · Miss Lovett
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · Suma
About Mrs. Leslie
1954 · Camilla
Susan Slept Here
1954 · Georgette
Executive Suite
1954 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
Forever Female
1953 · Emma (uncredited)
Torch Song
1953 · Anne
Bright Road
1953 · Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
The Well
1951 · Martha Crawford
Manhandled
1949 · Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
The Peanut Man
1947 · Lucretia
Series (36)
Matt Houston
1982
Hotel
1982 · Carrie Garland
Cagney & Lacey
1982 · Elevator Operator
Simon & Simon
1981
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · Sister Scrap Scott
The Incredible Hulk
1977 · Mrs. Dennison
The Jeffersons
1975
Baretta
1975
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Librarian
Police Woman
1974
Harry O
1974
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Mrs. Henry
Rhoda
1974
Good Times
1974
Kung Fu
1972 · Omar's Mother
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Funny Face
1971
Cannon
1971
Adam-12
1968 · Ethel May, Mary Handlin
Mannix
1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Ironside
1967
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Mrs. Pierce
The F.B.I.
1965 · Caregiver
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Mama Lou
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Mrs. Johnson
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Maid (uncredited)
Matinee Theater
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Eloise
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Flora, Josi
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Aunt Nellie
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Coralee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lurie
Dragnet
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Flora, Maid