Maidie Norman
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1912-10-16 (86 years old)
Deathday
1998-05-02
Place of Birth
Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
Also known As
Mady Norman
Madie Norman
Maidie Norman
Biography
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 serva...
Acting
1962
as Elvira Stitt
1982
as Nurse Agnes
1951
as Martha Crawford
1954
as Housekeeper
1956
as Bertha
1954
as Georgette
1955
as Suma
1953
as Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
1954
as Camilla
1953
as Emma
1973
as Janine
1977
as Dorothy
1976
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1949
as Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
1972
as Aunt Ada
1972
as Coralee
1973
as Mrs. Stokes
1956
as Violet (uncredited)
1947
as Lucretia
1953
as Anne
1972
as Nurse Ferguson
1981
as Ruth Thornwell
1983
as Neddy
1963
as Burden's Maid
1973
as Jennie Daley
1955
as Miss Lovett
1974
as Weedy Warren
1978
as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
1955
as Sarah (uncredited)
1981
as Self
2020
as Self (archive footage)
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