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    Maidie Norman

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  1. Maidie Ruth Norman (October 16, 1912 – May 2, 1998) was an American radio, stage, film, and television actress as well as an instructor in African-American literature and theater.

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    Maidie Norman. Actress: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Maidie Norman was born Maidie Ruth Gamble on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis and Lila Gamble.

  3. 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.

  4. May 12, 1998 · Maidie Norman, who played a black servant in ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' but rewrote her lines to eliminate ''old slavery-time talk'' and give the role more dignity,...

  5. May 2, 1998 · 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.

  6. Aug 4, 2008 · From 1968 to 1969, she served as artist-in-residence at Stanford University where she became a pioneer of directing plays by black authors. She also became instrumental in establishing one of the first courses on the history of blacks in American theater at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

  7. May 2, 1998 · Maidie Norman. Actress. She is best remembered for her portrayal of the headstrong, and ill-fated, housekeeper Elvira in the psychological thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).

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