Norma Terris

Biography

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Norma Terris (November 13, 1904, Columbus, Kansas - November

15, 1989, Lyme, Connecticut) was an American musical theatre star. Her mother,

a singer, named her after the heroine of Bellini's opera, Norma.

Born Norma Allison, she was acclaimed for her adroit

impersonations of popular public figures, which she had performed in Florenz

Ziegfeld's Follies, but may be best known for having originated the roles of

Magnolia Hawks and her daughter Kim (as an adult) in the original Broadway

production of Show Boat in 1927. Terris was originally chosen to play the dual roles of

Moonyean Clare and her niece Kathleen in Through the Years, Vincent Youmans's

1932 musical version...