
Known for
Acting
Born
October 16, 1912
Birthplace
Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
Died
May 2, 1998 (aged 85)
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,...
2020
as Self (archive footage)
1988
1983
as Neddy
1982
as Nurse Agnes
1982
1982
1982
1981
1981
as Self
1981
as Ruth Thornwell
1979
1978
as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
1977
1977
as Dorothy
1976
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1975
1975
1974
1974
1974
1974
1974
1974
as Weedy Warren
1974
1973
as Jennie Daley