Maidie Norman
Actor
Born October 16, 1912 in 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?
Filmography
Delphine and Carole
Self (archive footage)
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Edna
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Neddy
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Nurse Agnes
Matt Houston
Hotel
Carrie Garland
Cagney & Lacey
Elevator Operator
Simon & Simon
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self
Thornwell
Ruth Thornwell
Roots: The Next Generations
Sister Scrap Scott
Movie Movie
Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
The Incredible Hulk
Mrs. Dennison
Airport '77
Dorothy
A Star Is Born
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
The Jeffersons
Baretta
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Librarian
Police Woman
Harry O
Little House on the Prairie
Mrs. Henry
Rhoda
Sty of the Blind Pig
Weedy Warren
Good Times
A Dream for Christmas
Jennie Daley
Maurie
Mrs. Stokes
The Lie
Janine
Kung Fu
Omar's Mother
Another Part of the Forest
Coralee
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Nurse Ferguson
The Streets of San Francisco
Sixteen
Aunt Ada
Funny Face
Cannon
Adam-12
Ethel May
Mannix
Judd, for the Defense
Ironside
The F.B.I.
Caregiver
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mama Lou
4 for Texas
Burden's Maid
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Elvira Stitt
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Johnson
The Twilight Zone
Maid (uncredited)
The Opposite Sex
Violet (uncredited)
Written on the Wind
Bertha
Man with the Gun
Sarah (uncredited)
Matinee Theater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Eloise
Mad at the World
Miss Lovett
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Suma
About Mrs. Leslie
Camilla
Susan Slept Here
Georgette
Executive Suite
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Forever Female
Emma (uncredited)
Torch Song
Anne
Letter to Loretta
Flora
Bright Road
Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
Cavalcade of America
Aunt Nellie
Four Star Playhouse
Coralee
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lurie
Dragnet
The Well
Martha Crawford
Manhandled
Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
The Peanut Man
Lucretia