

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
as Bertha

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
as Nurse Agnes

Movie Movie
as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")

Airport '77
as Dorothy

A Star Is Born
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Sty of the Blind Pig
as Weedy Warren

A Dream for Christmas
as Jennie Daley

Maurie
as Mrs. Stokes

The Lie
as Janine

Another Part of the Forest
as Coralee

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Nurse Ferguson

Sixteen
as Aunt Ada

The Opposite Sex
as Violet (uncredited)

Written on the Wind
as Bertha

Man with the Gun
as Sarah (uncredited)

Mad at the World
as Miss Lovett

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Suma

About Mrs. Leslie
as Camilla

Susan Slept Here
as Georgette

Executive Suite
as Housekeeper (uncredited)

Forever Female
as Emma (uncredited)

Torch Song
as Anne

Bright Road
as Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother

The Well
as Martha Crawford