Maidie Norman

Maidie Norman

Acting 1912-10-16 Villa Rica, Georgia, USA

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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2020 Self (archive footage)
1982
1982 Elevator Operator
1981 Ruth Thornwell
1981 Self
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1979 Sister Scrap Scott
1978 Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
1977 Dorothy
1977 Mrs. Dennison
1976 Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1975
1974 Weedy Warren
1974
1974
1974 Librarian
1974
1973 Janine
1973 Mrs. Stokes
1973 Jennie Daley
1972 Aunt Ada
1972 Coralee
1972 Nurse Ferguson
1972 Omar's Mother
1971
1971
1968 Ethel May
1968 Mary Handlin
1967
1965 Caregiver
1964 Mama Lou
1963 Burden's Maid
1962 Elvira Stitt
1961
1961 Mrs. Johnson
1960 Queto's Mother
1959 Maid (uncredited)
1956 Bertha
1956 Violet (uncredited)
1955 Suma
1955 Miss Lovett
1955 Sarah (uncredited)
1955 Eloise
1954 Housekeeper (uncredited)
1954 Georgette
1954 Camilla
1953 Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
1953 Emma (uncredited)
1953 Anne
1953 Flora
1953 Josi
1952 Aunt Nellie
1952 Coralee
1951 Martha Crawford
1951
1951 Lurie
1950 Flora
1950 Maid
1949 Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
1947 Lucretia