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 masters 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 1956s 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.

Filme indisponibile de la Maidie Norman

The Well

Martha Crawford

Film 1951

Susan Slept Here

Georgette

Film 1954

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

Suma

Film 1955

Bright Road

Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother

Film 1953

Forever Female

Emma

Film 1953

A Star Is Born

Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Film 1976

Manhandled

Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)

Film 1949

Sixteen

Aunt Ada

Film 1972

Another Part of the Forest

Coralee

Film 1972

Maurie

Mrs. Stokes

Film 1973

The Opposite Sex

Violet (uncredited)

Film 1956

The Peanut Man

Lucretia

Film 1947

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Nurse Ferguson

Film 1972

Thornwell

Ruth Thornwell

Film 1981

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

Neddy

Film 1983

A Dream for Christmas

Jennie Daley

Film 1973

Mad at the World

Miss Lovett

Film 1955

Sty of the Blind Pig

Weedy Warren

Film 1974

Movie Movie

Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")

Film 1978

Man with the Gun

Sarah (uncredited)

Film 1955

Delphine and Carole

Self (archive footage)

Film 2020

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

Self

Film 1981

Filme seriale TV indisponibile de la Maidie Norman

Good Times

Tv 1974

Rhoda

Tv 1974

Kung Fu

Tv 1972

Little House on the Prairie

Tv 1974

The F.B.I.

Caregiver

Tv 1965

Simon & Simon

Tv 1981

The Jeffersons

Tv 1975

The Streets of San Francisco

Tv 1972

Baretta

Tv 1975

Mannix

Tv 1967

Hotel

Tv 1982

Dragnet

Tv 1951

Cagney & Lacey

Tv 1982

Cannon

Tv 1971

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Lurie

Tv 1951

Ironside

Tv 1967

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Tv 1974

The Twilight Zone

Maid (uncredited)

Tv 1959

Harry O

Tv 1974

Funny Face

Tv 1971

Police Woman

Tv 1974

Lux Video Theatre

Flora

Tv 1950

Matt Houston

Tv 1982

Judd for the Defense

Tv 1967

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

Ben Casey

Tv 1961

CBS Playhouse

Tv 1966

Cavalcade of America

Aunt Nellie

Tv 1952

Adam-12

Ethel May

Tv 1968

Adam-12

Mary Handlin

Tv 1968

Lux Video Theatre

Maid

Tv 1950

Four Star Playhouse

Coralee

Tv 1952

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Mama Lou

Tv 1964

The Incredible Hulk

Mrs. Dennison

Tv 1977