Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/16/1912
Place of Birth
Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
Also Known As
Mady NormanMadie 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 ...
Known For
Airport '77
as Dorothy
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
as Edna
The Lie
as Janine
Thornwell
as Ruth Thornwell
Sixteen
as Aunt Ada
Torch Song
as Anne
Executive Suite
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Well
as Martha Crawford
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Elvira Stitt
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
as Nurse Agnes
Written on the Wind
as Bertha
A Star Is Born
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
4 for Texas
as Burden's Maid
Man with the Gun
as Sarah (uncredited)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Nurse Ferguson
About Mrs. Leslie
as Camilla
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
as Neddy
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Suma
Mad at the World
as Miss Lovett